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She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.
Anne Ursu
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A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and she took him for her own. The other was his best friend. And she went after him in ill-considered shoes, brave and completely unprepared.
Anne Ursu
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People feared snowstorms once. Hazel read about this all the time. Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they'd been entombed in snow overnight. They walked across malevolent swirling whiteness and did not know if they would survive. Nature can destroy us in a blink. We live on only at its pleasure. That was what looking at the witch was like.
Anne Ursu
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The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
James Bovard
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
Patrick Ness
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I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.
David O. McKay
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
Dave Barry
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Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?
Sara Gruen
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Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
Faraaz Kazi
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Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.
Maya Angelou
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So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, Who cares if you're enlightened forever?
Byron Katie
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I don't have opinions. Only if it is necessary for a particular action, I make a judgment. Opinions are fetters for your intelligence.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Everything that's important - you can take with you.
Sheri L. Dew
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
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I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.
Donald Hall
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There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death
Bret Harte
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One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude Stein
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And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.
Julia Quinn
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My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.
Tyne O'Connell
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The Classic Notting Hill junkie, i.e Armani underwear, Pink's shirt and Burberry belt tourniquets
Tyne O'Connell
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!
Kevin Hart
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Solution = Conflict + Collaboration
John Baldoni
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Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today
Friedrich Nietzsche
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