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You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at… — Douglas Adams
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for… — Matthew Scully
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It's the perfect example of having your cake and… — Tim Ferriss
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action… — Tim Ferriss
When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow… — Greg Mortenson
I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just… — Jodi Picoult
The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is hard to miss… — David F. Wells
So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting… — Patrick Rothfuss
In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For… — Patrick Rothfuss
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… — Hannah Arendt
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying… — Bruno Schulz
True love blooms when we care more about another person than we care about ourselves. That is Christ's great atoning example for us, and it… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same… — Haruki Murakami
If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning. — Darynda Jones
I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly… — L.A. Meyer
Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself… — Susane Colasanti
She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow. — Ned Vizzini
House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their… — Mary Doria Russell
it's weird how much people change. for example, when i was a kid i loved all of these things..and over time all of them just… — Lauren Oliver
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful,… — Miguel de Cervantes

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