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Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in…
— Margaret Atwood
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She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed…
— Philip Pullman
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Just what we need," moaned Holly. "Artemis Fowl with magical powers.
— Eoin Colfer
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on…
— Bram Stoker
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Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got incredible powers of…
— J R Ward
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Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even…
— Susan Cain
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There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious…
— Charles Dickens
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Isn’t that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would’ve thought that a man with…
— Ilona Andrews
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What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable…
— Mark Levin
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Black for hunting through the night For death and mourning the color's white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown And red to call…
— Cassandra Clare
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Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss…
— Laini Taylor
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Frank Zhang! I, Jason Grace, praetor of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata, give you my final order: I resign my post and give you emergency field…
— Rick Riordan
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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather…
— Tryon Edwards
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many…
— Og Mandino
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience…
— Paul Tillich
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Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our…
— J. William Fulbright
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Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had…
— James D. Watson
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is…
— Hugh Black
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As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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