Term Quotes
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We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us…
— Sándor Márai
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But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.
— Paulo Coelho
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
— David Mitchell
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If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker,…
— Janet Fitch
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue…
— Terence McKenna
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Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.
— J.A. Redmerski
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‎W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something…
— Ian Mortimer
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One thing that has helped me personally in the past was to stop interfering with the people around me and getting frustrated when I couldn’t…
— Elif Safak
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I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone…
— David Levithan
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I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.
— Rachel Caine
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But because human being tend to focus on short-term benefits and our own immediate needs, such tragedies of the commons occur frequently .
— Dan Ariely
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Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and…
— Edwidge Danticat
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I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.
— Saul Williams
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At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
— Tabitha Suzuma
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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since…
— Haruki Murakami
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Did you ever meet someone named Caleb?" I say. 'Caleb," Fernando says. "Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was...…
— Veronica Roth
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We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time…
— Junot Diaz
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There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I…
— Wayne Dyer
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