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Some knitters say that they buy yarn with no project in mind and wait patiently for the yarn to "speak" to them. This reminds me…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms…
— Mindy Kaling
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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own…
— William Hazlitt
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Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by…
— Nicholas Sparks
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To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to…
— Pema Chodron
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She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint…
— Kathryn Stockett
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We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our memory comes an enlargement of…
— Nicholas G. Carr
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Rights mean you have a right to your life. You have a right to your liberty, and you should have a right to keep the…
— Ron Paul
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The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to…
— Hope Edelman
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...i think of friendship in terms of love...
— David Levithan
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Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland,…
— Kevin Hearne
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In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
— Christopher Hitchens
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For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success†and “failure†had suddenly lost their…
— Paul Auster
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I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no…
— Lorrie Moore
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Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and…
— Taylor Swift
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There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory…
— Justina Chen
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To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term…
— Margaret Atwood
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God wants to help us to eventually turn all of our weaknesses into strengths,1 but He knows that this is a long-term goal. He wants…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really…
— William Goldman
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