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| b5c3ee2 | The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsu spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 13e6db5 | And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise. | salvation | Oscar Wilde | |
| 6eccbed | The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 466b682 | What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1be2b56 | Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 10d653b | I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them to be real. --Oscar Wilde | Cassandra Clare | ||
| 952b6c6 | Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. | Spider Robinson | ||
| a769898 | honesty is hard work. | Spider Robinson | ||
| 2a32352 | Patience and timing . . . everything comes when it must come. A life cannot be rushed, cannot be worked on a schedule as so many people want it to be. We must accept what comes to us at a given time, and not ask for more. But life is endless, so we never die; we were never really born. We just pass through different phases. There is no end. Humans have many dimensions. But time is not as we see time, but rather in lessons that are learned. | Brian L. Weiss | ||
| dc9a1b6 | The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life - which was apparently a considerable chunk of time. | Bruce Campbell | ||
| 478a2be | The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle....,Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive?...,Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column..., | Robert T. Kiyosaki. | ||
| 1f109cf | You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 91b753b | The idea that "it takes money to make money" is the thinking of financially unsophisticated people. It does not mean that they're not intelligent. They have simply not learned the science of money making money. Money is only an idea. If you want more money, simply change your thinking. Every self-made person started small with an idea, and then turned it into something big. The same applies to investing. It takes only a few dollars to start.. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| e1ebe27 | We only memorize historical dates and names, not the lesson. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 1863210 | The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 15dae9a | Don't Believe Everything You Think! | inspirational slice-of-life spiritual-growth | Robert Fulghum | |
| 09a734f | Jeff," she said, sobbing, "I'm scared! I don't want to die! Not ... die forever, and--" He hugged her tightly, rocked her in his arms and felt his own tears trickle down his face. "Just think of how we've lived. Think of all we've done, and let's try to be grateful for that." "But we could have done so much more. We could have--" "Hush," he whispered. "We did all we could. More than either of us ever dreamed when we were first starting out.. | Ken Grimwood | ||
| d11ab68 | Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)" | optimism world | Radclyffe Hall | |
| abcc823 | It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench in the name of justice, her priests, occupying her pulpits, in the name of universal love, owned stock in the slave ships, and luxuriated upon the profits of piracy and murder. It was not until the same year that the United States of America abolished the slave trade between this and other countries, but carefully .. | execration grand hate heroic lash liberty lincoln love mercy monument president profit purity slavery tyranny united-states | Robert G. Ingersoll | |
| d46df2a | the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| def61f8 | You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it. | humor | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 6385816 | Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed--to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| b433bad | Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds. | Stephen Crane | ||
| c4e2c1b | The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| be27aff | When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet,.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| b116c28 | It's a bore," he said out loud. "What is, my dear?" "Anything you do too bloody long." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 8f29b1b | I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go. | hemingway in-our-time out-of-season | Ernest Hemingway | |
| fcfd07b | And that was the end of the beginning of that | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 1f146d5 | I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death. | writing | Ernest Hemingway | |
| daae7b5 | And this was the price you paid for sleeping together. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 0b6c58a | There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. | life time | Ernest Hemingway | |
| dc3c8cb | Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?" | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 60b01b4 | He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| c0f48be | Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| f05395b | I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 937cbeb | New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover," Jake said. Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it." | friendship romance | Sarah Mayberry | |
| 311ce27 | He couldn't just come right out with it, could he? No, that would scare her off. He had to be subtle, build up to it. Explain himself. "I love you." Of course, straight to the point was also an effective strategy." | humour love romance romantic-comedy | Sarah Mayberry | |
| 761db84 | We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try. | Tim Winton | ||
| 5d8ba3c | Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it? | love | Mary Balogh | |
| 7f5adce | I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 98a148a | He was dead; I needed to let his memory go, too. That was the first step for me, before discrimination. Yet my love was the ghost of a young girl's dream. It walked alone in the abyss, stubbornly, where only illusions prospered on tears and regrets. My love had a life of its own; it was perverted but nevertheless still vital. For that reason, I wanted to return to deep space. Honestly, I would have preferred it if we had traveled forever an.. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 054a247 | Sometimes, if I am not careful, and I stare too long at a flower, it shrivels and dies. | flower shrivel staring | Christopher Pike | |
| 8291673 | Then, almost as an afterthought, she turned and locked the bathroom door. If he thought he was going to seduce her, make her stupid enough to believe his lies by getting her into bed, he'd better think again. She stepped into the water. Besides, women didn't lose brain cells at the thought of sex. Only men did. | Maggie Shayne | ||
| bb087e2 | He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. "I thought I'd die for wanting you." | prudence romance sebastian teresa-medeiros velvet | Teresa Medeiros |