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Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder. We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
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Brian Greene |
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We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives
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journey
life
living
purpose-of-life
purpose-of-living
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Brian L. Weiss |
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It's a long hard road ahead for you, little warrior. Enjoy a happy day while you can. --Boldred
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Brian Jacques |
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Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing
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wisdom
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Brian Tracy |
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The young must grow old Whilst old ones grow older. And cowards will shrink As the bold grow bolder. Courage may blossom in quiet hearts, For who can tell where bravery starts? Truth is a song, oft lying unsung, Some mother bird protecting her young. Those who lay down their lives for friends, The echo rolls onward, it seldom ends. Who never turned and ran, but stayed? This is a warrior, born, not made. Living in peace, aye many a season, ..
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poetry
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Brian Jacques The Legend of Luke |
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If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first."
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brian-tracy
difficult
frog
goal
hard
hardship
life
opportunity
task
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Brian Tracy |
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The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom..
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Brian Jacques |
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To see and appreciate the soul of others with whom you are in a relationship is a higher state of awareness. To see only their outer characteristics provides a limited and incomplete perspective. Their current personality, just like their current physical body, is a temporary manifestation. They have had many bodies and many personalities but only one enduring soul, only one continuous spiritual essence. See this essence and you will see th..
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Brian L. Weiss |
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Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?
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peace
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Brian Jacques |
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There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.
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killing
life
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Brian Jacques |
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Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....
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humor
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Brian Jacques |
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Understanding requires insight. Insight must be anchored.
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science
understanding
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Brian Greene |
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Physicists have come to realize that mathematics, when used with sufficient care, is a proven pathway to truth.
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physics
truth
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Brian Greene |
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there's me, Gurth, Dotti, Grenn an' about a hunnerd shrews. If'n we wants to lie 'round for a day or two then you'll find yore prob'ly outvoted!" Lord Brocktree's eyes told the otter that he was not about to have his decision overruled. Swinging forth his battle blade, he stuck it quivering into the ground. "Lets's be reasonable about this, friend. Let me explain the rules. One Badger Lord carries two hundred votes and his sword carries ano..
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Brian Jacques |
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Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world...
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mystical
women
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Brian Froud |
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Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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boorab
brian-jacques
redwall
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Brian Jacques |
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A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity.
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Brian L. Weiss |
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things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.
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science
universe
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Brian Greene |
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raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death. --ERASMUS,
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duality
philosophy
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Brian Herbert |
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No doubt your sword is indeed a beautiful thing. It is a tribute to whoever forged it in bygone ages. There are very few such swords as this one left in the world, but remember, it is only a sword, Matthias! It contains no secret spell, nor holds within its blade any magical power. This sword is made for only one purpose, to kill. It will only be as good or evil as the one who wields it. I know that you intend to use it only for the good of..
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good
right
sword
wisedom
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Brian Jacques |
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Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.
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Brian Jacques |
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You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
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motivational
productivity
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Brian Tracy |
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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
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Brian Tracy |
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We could have chopped down the sycamore with this...
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Brian Jacques |
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Humankind has not learned about balance, let alone practiced it. It is guided by greed and ambition, steered by fear. In this way it will eventually destroy itself. But nature will survive; at least the plants will.
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ambition
emotions
fear
greed
humankind
journy
life
nature
people
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Brian L. Weiss |
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People do not need saving. People need love, support, and encouragement that they can withstand any trials and will always come out stronger, wiser, and more compassionate. I cannot shelter anyone from the storms of life, or they will never grow, learn, and expand.
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Brian L. Weiss |
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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theology
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Brian D. McLaren |
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The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm, where the oddest of visions appear, come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of fear. Dare we open those secret doors, down dusty paths of mind, in long-forgotten corners, what memories we'll find. Who rules o'er the Kingdom of Night, where all is not what it seems? 'Tis I, the Weaver of Tales, for I am the Dreamer of Dreams!
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Brian Jacques |
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Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.
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Brian Jacques |
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the better you think , the better decisions you make . the better decisions you make , the better actions you take . the better actions you take , the better results you get
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Brian Tracy |
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marmfloxes
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Brian Jacques |
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Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.
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eating
funny
hare-talk
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Brian Jacques |
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I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!"
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insult
redwall
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Brian Jacques |
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Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not k..
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kneel
redwall
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Brian Jacques |
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If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! --Gerul
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Brian Jacques |
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Everything will be clear to you in time. But you must have a chance to digest the knowledge that we have given to you already.
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Brian L. Weiss |
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America Is A Gun England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun. Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona's hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun. Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun. Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling.
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nation
patriotism
representation
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Brian Bilston |
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it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , "I am responsible"
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Brian Tracy |
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The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.
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importance
motivation
start
success
task
work
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Brian Tracy |
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quantum mechanics--the physics of our world--requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.
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physics
quantum-mechanics
science
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Brian Greene |
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We all love a good story. We all love a tantalizing mystery. We all love the underdog pressing onward against seemingly insurmountable odds. We all, in one form or another, are trying to make sense of the world around us. And all of these elements lie at the core of modern physics. The story is among the grandest -- the unfolding of the entire universe; the mystery is among the toughest -- finding out how the cosmos came to be; the odds are..
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science
the-universe
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Brian Greene |
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The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
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Brian Herbert |
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Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
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humor
magic
squire-julian
warrior
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Brian Jacques |
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There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.
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cowards
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Brian Jacques |