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I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.

Barack Obama

Believe, Gun, People

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In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Barack Obama

Country, War, Mean

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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

C. S. Lewis

Sympathy, Regret, Fear

C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Science, Should Have

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You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

Kate Chopin

Dream, Boys, Impossible Things

"The Awakening". Book by Kate Chopin, 1899.

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Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence. On the contrary, everyone was grumpy, complaining. Naturally, if everything surrounding your life from the very beginning goes on pointing out to you that you are not what you should be, goes on giving you great ideals that you have to follow and you have to become, your isness is never praised. What is praised is your future - if you can become someone respectable, powerful, rich, intellectual, in some way famous, not just a nobody.

Rajneesh

Spiritual, Powerful, Giving

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That’s why it was so impossible to tell him goodbye — because I was in love with him. Too. I loved him, much more than I should, and yet, still nowhere near enough. I was in love with him, but it was not enough to change anything; it was only enough to hurt us both more. To hurt him worse than I ever had.

Stephenie Meyer

Goodbye, Hurt, Impossible

Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer

Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing, Heart, Roots

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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life -- their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

Sacrifice, Men, Things In Life

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Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Terry Pratchett

Book, Needs, Sometimes

Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.183, Random House

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I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

Jennifer Weiner

Love, Failure, Learning

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You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.

Jean Ferris

Hard Times, Self, True Evil

Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.543, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

Taylor Swift

Art, Important, Music Is

" Taylor Swift takes a stand over Spotify music royalties" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2014.

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He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

Jandy Nelson

Crazy, Thinking, Fog

Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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Have either of you seen your mother ” “Yeah ” Ethan said and my heart actually skipped a beat. But I should have known Ethan was joking. “Slim lady. Blue eyes and a gray pageboy ” he continued his eyes glistening in appreciation of his own humor. “Answers to the name ‘Mom'.

Rachel Vincent

Mom, Mother, Appreciation

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I believe if you’re going to bomb someone you should know them first. It should hurt when you kill someone.

Rick Steves

Hurt, Believe, Bombs

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The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life, Dream, Prayer

Idylls of the King "The Passing of Arthur" l. 408 (1869) See Bailey 1; George H. W. Bush 7; George H. W. Bush 10; George H. W. Bush 12; Martin Luther King 1

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She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.

Jill Shalvis

Drunk, Chloe, Said

Jill Shalvis (2010). “Simply Irresistible”, p.49, Hachette UK

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It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to us from springs and snows of our mountains. This is the beverage we should drink. It should be our drink at all times.

Brigham Young

Spring, Snow, Water

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I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.

Rick Riordan

Horse, Flying, Sound

Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

Alain de Botton

Fate, Thinking, Secular Society

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rosto cupped laddybuck in one hand and grabed the back of my neck with the other pulling me in and kissing me right on the mouth. i should have punched him but his lips were soft and sweet. i will punch him next time. -beka after she realizes that rosto the piper is the new rouge

Tamora Pierce

Sweet, Kissing, Hands

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Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

Jose Rizal

Hate, Humble, Ideas

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I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

Mitch Albom

Mother, Children, Choices

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