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But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action… — Deb Caletti
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and… — Barbara Kingsolver
If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from… — Jane Austen
Iâ€™m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, Iâ€™m the type of person who doesnâ€™t… — Haruki Murakami
It is straightforwardâ€”and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given… — Martin Amis
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a Novel. — John Keats
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and… — Oliver Sacks
Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't… — Karen Marie Moning
Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized. — Kate Morton
Since the 1980s, we have given the rich a bigger slice of our pie in the belief that they would create more wealth, making the… — Ha-Joon Chang
I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our… — Alan Moore
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions — Alice Sebold
One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. — Nelson Mandela
If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will… — Terry Goodkind
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true… — Alfie Kohn
The present moment, though, is outside of time, itâ€™s Eternity. In India they use the word â€œkarmaâ€ for lack of any better term. But itâ€™s… — Paulo Coelho
With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. — Aristotle
Iâ€Ÿm going to kill her,â€ Francesca said to no one in particular. Which was probably a good thing, as there was no one else present.… — Julia Quinn
We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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