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• I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sorry, Suffering, Extravagance

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

  Lewis Carroll

  Trying, Twenties, Twelve

  Lewis Carroll (2009). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.9, Lulu.com

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• If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

  Jack Welch

  Change, Leadership, Service Culture

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• The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

  Og Mandino

  Secret, Secret To Success

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

  Richard K. Morgan

  Dream, Hurt, Kind

  Richard K. Morgan (2005). “Woken Furies”, p.286, Del Rey

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• Derek caught my arm again as I started to move--at this rate, it was going to be as sore as my injured one. "Dog," he said, jerking his chin toward the fenced yard. "It was inside earlier." Expecting to see a Doberman slavering at the fence, I followed his gaze to a little puff of white fur, the kind of dog women stick in their purses. It wasn't even barking, just staring at us, dancing in place. "Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian." I glanced up at Derek. "It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Moving, Thinking

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening: Number 2 in series”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Passion, Cutting

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

  Jasper Fforde

  Laughing, Survival, Cracks

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• George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent."

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Bottles, Hydra

  "Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 1, 2008.

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• I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suicide, Character, Loss

  "Emerson: Selected Journals 1841 - 1877" by Lawrence Rosenwald (p. 768), 2010.

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• Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  Michael Ende

  Heart, Thinking, Calendars

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• UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning opportunities that empower poor women ... will have more impact on curbing population growth that the current system of "encouraging" family planning practices through intimidation tactics.. Family planning should be left to the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Believe, Fall

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• It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

  Terry Pratchett

  Home, Elderly, Community

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.60, Random House

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• I think they’re having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Teenager, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.77, Macmillan

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• We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

  Loretta Chase

  Christian, Mean, Names

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• Man, first I’m shot, now I’m going to be a friggin’ zombie. At this rate, I’ll never live to have my first date or a driver’s license. Ah, gah! I’ve come too far to die a predestrian virgin. Bubba, you can’t let me die…I only have seventeen more months and three days to my sixteenth birthday! (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Zombie, Three

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.84, St. Martin's Griffin

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• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

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• Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Writing, Important

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.10, Anchor

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• It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Country, Usa, Two

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• I think we both need to work on our communication skills. (Kiara) I tried that once. (Nykyrian) And? (Kiara) Darling told me that I could never hold a job as a suicide counselor or hostage negotiator. He said my failure rate would become the stuff of legends. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Suicide, Jobs, Communication

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• I feel I should warn you, I’m in a really bad mood. (Syn) You’ll be in a worse mood when we haul you in dead! (a Partini) ‘Syn grimaced in pain at a comment so stupid it didn’t even rate a snotty comeback.’ (Syn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Stupid, Bad Mood

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Hi, Mom…Yes, I know my heart rate’s dangerously elevated. That sound? I’m being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Love You, Heart

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• They had seen Zarek take out a pair of Daimons. Great. Just great. He closed his eyes and cursed. This night was starting to rate right up there with abscessed teeth.’ (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eye, Night, Teeth

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.554, Macmillan

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