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Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be…
— Naomi Klein
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Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth dates and…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Relationships are monuments build on lies
— Dan Savage
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We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
— William J. Clinton
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Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that…
— Milan Kundera
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Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they…
— Utah Phillips
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Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more thorough once-over. He…
— Julie James
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We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create…
— Dorothy Allison
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This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time,…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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At night I would lie in bed and watch the show, how bees squeezed through the cracks of my bedroom wall and flew circles around…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't…
— Janet Fitch
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it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
— Gregory Maguire
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You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion…
— Dan Brown
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If…
— Richard Wright
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