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I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying…
— Lauren Oliver
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At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster…
— B.F. Skinner
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When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies we dream of…
— Howard Schultz
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Using supernatural beings to build the perfect weapon? Intriguing idea." "Not really," I said. "They did it on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A sub-par season.…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.
— Rick Riordan
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i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.
— Michele Jaffe
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I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?
— Rachel Caine
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You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides…
— Terry Pratchett
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That's the beauty of it. Have you seen the contraptions these magicians build to accomplish the most mundane feats? They are a bunch of fish…
— Erin Morgenstern
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends…
— Mother Teresa
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We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to…
— Neil Gaiman
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We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it…
— Neil Gaiman
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She couldn't steal herself back from Randa only to give herself away again - belong to another person, be answerable to another person, build her…
— Kristin Cashore
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Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people,…
— Paulo Coelho
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These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll…
— Maureen Johnson
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It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions.…
— Deb Caletti
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I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of…
— Jodi Picoult
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
— Alan Moore
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What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than…
— Spencer Johnson
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Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is…
— Eric Hoffer
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The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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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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It was a confirmation of a connection that already existed. And it was a bond that extended far beyond the borders of a shared living…
— Lisa Kleypas
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting…
— Anne Frank
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Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered…
— Terry Pratchett
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