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• Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles. “Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened. “Welcome back, my itchy witch.

  Kim Harrison

  Hands, Feet, Black

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• It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once and for all that everything I've believed my whole life is true, and real. Or, not even everything. Not even half. Just the part about someone or something bigger than us who doesn't lose track. I want to believe the stories, that there really is someone who would search the whole mountainside just to find that one lost thing that he loves, and bring it home.

  Sara Zarr

  Stars, Real, Believe

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• She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

  Georgette Heyer

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

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• I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Laughter, Humanity, Survival

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• This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Ideas, Importance, Generalities

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• It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hands, Missing, Hitting

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.226, Penguin

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• We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Religious, Philosophy

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• Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

  John C. Maxwell

  Moving, Goal, Awkward

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• We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

  David McGee

  Pampering, Lost, Should

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• ...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

  Jonathan Lethem

  Home, Doe, Alternatives

  Jonathan Lethem (2010). “Chronic City”, p.341, Faber & Faber

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• Before we met, I'd fly for hours to clear my head," Bones said, his voice reaching me even over the rush of wind. "It was the closest I came to finding peace, but though several of my mates could fly, I always went alone. I never wanted to share this with anyone until you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Wind, Voice, Bones

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• He touched the rough crucifix that lay against his chest and whispered to the moving air, "Lord, that she might be safe, she and my children." Then turned his cheek to her reaching hand and touched her throught the veils of time.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Moving, Air

  Diana Gabaldon (2011). “The Scottish Prisoner: A Novel”, p.521, Delacorte Press

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• What about a man who sits down to wonder Why life has cheated him? Thinks about his situation Hangs his head and cries Will we pretend, his problems don't exist? He's reaching out for help-will we selfishly resist? What about your brother? He's crying What about your brother? He's dying What about your brother?

  Mitch Albom

  Brother, Men, Thinking

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• Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

  David Packard

  Mistake, Risk, Enough

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• The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

  Tom Peters

  White, Blue, Office

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• The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Real, Struggle, Kids

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• That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

  Harold Ramis

  Dvds, People, Theater

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• Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Strong, Height

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• Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

  Jill Scott

  People, Soul, Touching

  Interview with James Walsh, www.mtv.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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• The day had been spent in the expectation of these hours, and now they were crumbling away, becoming, in their turn, another period of expectancy...It was a journey without end, leading to an indefinite future, eternally shifting just as she was reaching the present.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Journey, Expectations, Crumbling

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• I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.

  Jon Gordon

  School, Trying, Peers

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• humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

  John Piper

  Humility, Proud, Products

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• Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can’t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And I’m not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I’m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think “I’m where I want to be now.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Mean, Thinking, Sigh Of Relief

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• There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you’re on the wrong wall.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wall, Ladders, Reaching The Top

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• There’s a good kind of crazy, Kaylee,” he insisted softly, reaching out to wrap his warm hand around mine. “It’s the kind that makes you think about things that make your head hurt, because not thinking about them is the coward’s way out. The kind that makes you touch people who bruise your soul, just because they need to be touched. This is the kind of crazy that lets you stare out into the darkness and rage at eternity, while it stares back at you, ready to swallow you whole.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hurt, Crazy, Thinking

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.242, Harlequin

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