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God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him. — Paulo Coelho
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. Itâ€™s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to… — Orson Scott Card
She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about. — Suzanne Collins
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but… — Patricia Highsmith
Attempt to be creative for the joy it bringsâ€¦ Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It… — Richard G. Scott
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given… — Tony Judt
Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that… — Nora Roberts
True friends are families which you can select. — Audrey Hepburn
He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters?… — Peter Shaffer
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends. — Jeffrey Archer
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. — Isabel Allende
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books… — Algernon Blackwood
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to… — Stephen King
Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you… — Lee Kuan Yew
Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully… — Judith McNaught
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as â€˜The Massesâ€™. Both abstractions,… — Jorge Luis Borges
We often marvel at how introverted, geeky, kid 'blossom' into secure and happy adults. We liken it to a metamorphosis. However, maybe it's not the… — Susan Cain
In the interest of not pissing you off anymore tonight, let's not select that particular playlist. — Kiersten White
If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time. — Elbert Hubbard
If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would… — Richard DeVos

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