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• Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future,challenge the improbable and attain the impossible

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Impossible, Optimist

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• You plan to be a challenge, do you?" Juliana smiled angelically. "I agreed to remain, my lord. Not to remain silent.

  Sarah MacLean

  Silent, Lord, Plans

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Cynical

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

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• But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Work Out, Doe

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• I suggest you keep your distance from her and concentrate on your own work.” “I’m in love with her.” “I am sorry to hear that,” he says. “It will make the challenge a great deal more difficult for you.” “We have been playing at this for more than a decade, when does it end?” “It ends when there is a victor.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Sorry, Distance, Doe

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• Rather than argue, Amanda smiled at him. “And then what will you do while your son or daughter is in charge of your store and your companies?” “I’ll spend my days and nights pleasing you,” he said. “It’s a challenging occupation, after all.” He laughed and dodged as she went to swat his attractive backside.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Daughter, Son, Night

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• The challenge is to write about real things magically.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Writing, Real Things

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• PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• The woman wins who calls herself beautiful, and challenges the world to change to fit her vision.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Winning, World

  "The Beauty Myth". Book by Naomi Wolf, 1990.

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• There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

  May Sarton

  Essence, People, Solitude

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo) ... I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred)

  Margaret Weis

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but — mainly — to ourselves.

  Julian Barnes

  Cutting, Stories, Goes On

  "The Sense of an Ending". Book by Julian Barnes, www.penguin.co.uk. 2001.

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• And so we go.' It's my way of saying that I'm prepared for the next adventure. The next chapter. The next challenge. Whatever comes my way, I'm ready for it. Because that truly is the way it was meant to be.

  D. J. MacHale

  Adventure, Way, Next

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla”, p.2451, Simon and Schuster

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• Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.

  Simone Elkeles

  Knows, I Can

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

  Libba Bray

  Hurt, Book, Heart

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• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  Jimmy Carter

  Failure, Reality, Trying

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

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• When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

  Shania Twain

  Opportunity, Finding Yourself, Made

  Shania Twain (2011). “From This Moment On”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe that in this century the paramount moral challenge will be the struggle for gender equality around the world.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Believe, Struggle, Battle

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.17, Vintage

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• Love this job," Sanya murmured. "Just love it." "I need to challenge more people to duels," Thomas said in agreement. "Men are pigs," Murphy said. "Amen," said Molly. Lea gave me a prim look and said, "I've not sacrificed a holy virgin in ages.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Men, Pigs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.293, Penguin

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• How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Achievement, Growing, Aging

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• At the end of the day, it's a series of individual challenges played out against a team defense. It's a psersonal test every time I step into the batter's box: Can I do better than the last time? And that's why I love it.

  Barry Lyga

  Team, The End Of The Day, Defense

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dovewing felt bone-weary from her ears to the tip of her tail. Just because she had better hearing, sharper senses than any cat didn't seem to give her more strength. She needed to rest, eat, talk with Jayfeather and Lionblaze about the challenge that sol had left them with, of hostile Clans that would be crushed by the dark forest if they tried to fight alone. Starclan, light my path, please. "Come on," she meowed to Hollyleaf. "It's time we went home. Our Clnmates are waitning for us P. 315

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Home, Fighting

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• Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come. Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Long, Life And Death, Joy

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

  Abigail Adams

  Mind, Habit, Born

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