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• And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was willing to hand myself over free and clear. Now I needed her to return it all to me, with the faith that I could make my own way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, June, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.165, Penguin

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• For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

  Ann Patchett

  Block, Moving, Ideas

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• We didn't speak, just drove out of the city into the countryside on our way to absolutely nowhere, and when we found that perfect spot among the trees, we stopped and looked at each other. Swallows swooped through the red sky, back from their adventure, and we held each other underneath the ketchup clouds, willing time to stop and the world to forget us for a while.

  Annabel Pitcher

  Adventure, Clouds, Sky

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• As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn’t stop me from striking out to block her.

  Richelle Mead

  Block, Fighting, Rose

  Richelle Mead (2016). “Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.196, Penguin

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• It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Your Side, Sides, Impossible

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• As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.

  Lynsay Sands

  Mother, Falling In Love, Children

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• What I said was I’ll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it’s funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I’d be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I’m willing to die alone but god knows I don’t want to live that way.

  Shane Koyczan

  Goodbye, Love You, Should Have

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• I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Energy, Environment

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 15 Apr. 1778)

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• For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

  Tertullian

  War, Numbers, Discipline

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• Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.

  Veronica Roth

  Fate, People, Fake

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• Please don't take him away from this world. Please don't let him die here in my arms, not after everything we've been through together, not after You've taken so many others. Please, I beg You, let him live. I am willing to sacrifice anything to make this happen- I'm willing to do anything You ask. Maybe you'll laugh at me for such a naive promise, but I mean it in earnest, and I don't care if it makes no sense or seems impossible. Let him live. Please. I can't bear this a second time. Tell me there is still good in this world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

  Marie Lu

  Taken, Mean, Sacrifice

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• Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

  Alexis Carrel

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• People always say congratulations. When you're a successful bidder it means you're willing to spend more money than anyone else. I'm not sure if that's congratulations or condolences.

  Eli Broad

  Positive, Congratulations, Condolences

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• It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, Memories

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.152, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  War, Home, Fighting

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin

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• As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.

  Jim Cramer

  Money, Opportunity, Games

  "Mad Money". Book by Jim Cramer, www.today.com. March 14, 2005.

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• If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, Ignorance, People

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.659, Modern Library

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• The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

  Emma Goldman

  Mirrors, Government, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

  Eli Pariser

  Google, Information, Able

  "5 Questions with Eli Pariser, Author of ‘The Filter Bubble’". Interview with Bryan Walsh, techland.time.com. May 16, 2011.

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• If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Remember that adversity presents us with numerous possibilities for success, if we are just willing to see them.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Adversity, Remember

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• I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change. But I am willing to acknowledge that people who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that it is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Issues, Long Ago, People

  "Paxman accuses BBC of hypocrisy over environment" by Jason Deans, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.

  Eliot Wigginton

  Motivational, Success, Business

  Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

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• Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Oblivion, Made

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.540, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

  Scott D. Cook

  Educational, Focus, Cost

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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