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I got my heart's desire and there my troubles began.
Lev Grossman

Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.& Countries
Roman Payne

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there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
Stephen Fry

curiosity

...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom.?
Immanuel Kant

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She was afraid that it was a moral issue and that was one of his weaknesses. He was Salander’s friend. She knew her brother. She knew that he was loyal to the point of foolhardiness once he had made someone a friend, even if the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also the friend was impossible and obviously flawed. She also knew that he could accept any number of idiocies from his friends, but that there was a boundary and it could not be infringed. Where exactly this boundary was seemed to vary from one person to another, but she knew he had broken completely with people who had previously been close friends because they had done something that he regarded as beyond the pale. And he was inflexible. The break was for ever.'s Nest
Stieg Larsson

friendship love

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Herman Melville

life manhood resilience strength

In Hamilton's The Universe Wreckers... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from The Drums of Tapajos that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from The Black Star Passes and other stories by John W. Campbell that I first heard of relativity.The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresistible. It was science fiction that made me want to be a scientist strongly enough to eventually make me one.That is not to say that science fiction stories can be completely trusted as a source of specific knowledge... However, the misguidings of science fiction can be unlearned. Sometimes the unlearning process is not easy, but it is a low price to pay for the gift of fascination over science.
Isaac Asimov

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Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soonas fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the pit of the stomach to thethroat and brain, from fear of violence to the more nameless kind, youcome to believe you are part of a horrible experiment. I learned todistrust those superiors who encouraged independent thinking. When yougave it to them, they returned it in the form of terror, for they knewthat ideas, only that, could hasten their obsolescence. Management askedfor new ideas all the time; memos circulated down the echelons, requestingbold and challenging concepts. But I learned that new ideas could finishyou unless you wrapped them in a plastic bag. I learned that most of thesecretaries were more intelligent than most of the executives and that theexecutive secretaries were to be feared more than anyone. I learned whatclosed doors meant and that friendship was not negotiable currency and howimportant it was to lie even when there was no need to lie. Words andmeanings were at odds. Words did not say what was being said nor even itsreverse. I learned to speak a new language and soon mastered the specialelements of that tongue.
Don DeLillo

corporate fiction organization

I have this theory, that this will be the only city that future archaeologists find, Las Vegas. The dry climate will preserve it all and teams of scientists in the year 5000 will carefully sweep and scrape away the sand to find pyramids and castles and replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the New York skyline and stripper poles and snapper cards and these future archaeologists will re-create our entire culture based solely on this one shallow and cynical little shithole. We can complain all we want that this city doesn’t represent us. We can say, Yes, but I hated Las Vegas. Or I only went there once. Well, I’m sure not all Romans reveled in the torture-fests at the Colosseum either, but there it is.
Jess Walter

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Jem had moved the same way coming in, but as Will neared him, Jem took a step toward his former parabatai and the step was swift, eager and human, as if being close to the people whom he loved made him feel made of flesh and racing blood once more.You’re here, said Will and implicit in the words was the sense that Will’s contentment was complete. Now Jem was there, all was right with the world.
Cassandra Clare

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Let there be no mistake in your mind as to the special character of the man who has come to Christ and is a true Christian. He is not an angel, he is not a half-angelic being, in whom is no weakness, or blemish, or infirmity - he is nothing of the kind. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ. What was the glorious company of the apostles and prophets? What was the noble army of martyrs? What were Isaiah, Daniel, Peter, James, John, Paul, Polycarp, Chrysostom, Augustine, Luther, Ridley, Latimer, Bunyan, Baxter, Whitefield, Venn, Chalmers, Bickersteth, M’Cheyne? What were they all, but sinners who knew and felt their sins and trusted only in Christ? What were they, but men who accepted the invitation I bring you this day and came to Christ by faith? By this faith they lived; in this faith they died. In themselves and their doings they saw nothing worth mentioning; but in Christ they saw all that their souls required. The invitation of Christ is now before you. If you never listened to it before, listen to it today. Broad, full, free, wide, simple, tender, kind, that invitation will leave you without excuse if you refuse to accept it. There are some invitations, perhaps, which it is wiser and better to decline. There is one which ought always to be accepted: that one is before you today. Jesus Christ is saying, Come! Come unto Me.
J.C. Ryle

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Behind every Plagiarism there is Google
Vikash Shrivastava

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The forces are there, we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be.
Unknown

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The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. (Speak To Me Of Death)
Cornell Woolrich

destiny fate stars

There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don't. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are supposed to pretend they are bored and wish they were doing more corporate things. (They don't. They love their job.) If we all stick to the plan there will be less blood in the streets.
Amy Poehler

feminism motherhood work

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, only you.
Carol Grace

aging life old-age self

He hated House members who longed only to run for the Senate and senators who longed only to run for the presidency. He was appalled by what he felt television had done to the Senate by the mid-fifties. It had become a major launching platform for presidential campaigns. He thought television had ruined the Senate as a serious body. All they do there is preen and comb their hair and run for President. It’s like a presidential primary over there,
David Halberstam

ambition contentment

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus—and Started the Protestant Reformation
Andrew Pettegree

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One day the sun will shine brighter than ever,and the stars will twinkle and shine more than ever,One day the pain will feel like it was there never,That’s when I will sing again, even if just in the shower, but louder and happier than ever.
Mehak Bhalla

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She traced the dragon’s body on his biceps where it transitioned into rope. I just thought it would be more difficult. After all this time, the heartache, the waiting, the despairing and giving up, the pure pissed-offness of dealing with near misses… She blew out a breath. And there it is. With you, easy as breathing. ‘I’m in love with you.’ You said it and meant it. It changes the universe, but the way throwing a stone in a pond does. All those ripples. It's…amazing.She frowned and cocked her head. There should at least be dramatic music. I can retract it if you want. Brood for a while, play commitment paranoia games, alienate you so we break up, sort of and then I chase you down before you make some monumental decision, like moving back to New York, or signing up for a three year stint in the merchant marines. Then we can have a big makeup scene. She pursed her lips. Complete with dramatic music. Absolutely. If I could afford it, I’d hire John Williams to come up with the score. You’d do all that for me? Hell, no. He snorted, puffing a short, playful breath against her. I’d tie you up and keep you in my basement until you contracted Stockholm syndrome and couldn’t breathe without me.She tipped her head back, sobering. Sometimes, it feels like I can’t. Crazy, right? He put his mouth on hers and took her air in the best kind of way, all while giving it back to her. at her, boyishly appealing, but then sobered. We’re normal, extraordinary people, he said. It took us a while, but we always knew what it would look like when it happened. The simplicity of it is what makes it extraordinary. A tadpole gets legs and walks on land and evolution begins. All in a simple blink, the whole world changes.
Joey W. Hill

love-quotes

There are always certain things which are certain and certain things which are uncertain for us to think about each day and when such are over, there shall always be something to think about
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear.
Andrew J. Bernstein

Move Nothing Molecules

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
August Wilson

Myself Goal I Write

The American Dream is still alive out there and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.
Bill Rancic

Education Alive Idea

I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I am not manipulating my sound to be like anybody or trying to write to sound like anybody else.
Bryan Greenberg

Think Career Like

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
Caitlin Moran

World Ways Billion

When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit.
Clarence Thomas

Whole Minorities Bit

For contemporary fashion, I am a huge fan of so many of the people out there. I think Azzedine Alaia holds up through three generations of very specific, beautiful design. I think Jean Paul Gaultier also is very interesting with a long span.
Colleen Atwood

I Think Through Very

I am never doing a new album. I'll probably do nothing but singles. I am as good as anybody out there lyrically and conceptually and can go toe to toe with the best of them throughout history. But I don't know how much longer I'll be doing it. It's not really fun anymore.
Coolio

Best Doing Anybody

When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock Report. But I was much less interested in my own profile by that point, because I had already done that once and it was not terribly fulfilling at the end of the day.
David Brock

Own Been Another

I went to Lunenburg, when we were filming there and I was like, 'We can't film anywhere else. This place is perfect. It is 'Haven.' It's absolutely beautiful. That town is eye candy.
Emily Rose

Perfect Town Haven

Women are half the population of the world and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
Geena Davis

Half Characters Population

My mum was very good at making me take up musical instruments, so although there was no popular music she made me learn the recorder when I was three, the violin when I was five and the piano when I was seven. I took up the guitar myself when I was 14.
James Blunt

Seven Mum Very

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience.
Jay Samit

Medical College Other

I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I am out there.
Jerry Lewis

Responsibility Go Deliver

Hatred is active and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Envy Hatred Dislike

It is for others one must learn to do everything; for there lies the secret of happiness.
Jules Verne

Happiness Learn Lies

There is a lot of work out there to take people out of the loop in things like medical diagnosis. But if you are taking humans out of the loop, you are in danger of ending up with a very cold form of AI that really has no sense of human interest, human emotions, or human values.
Louis B. Rosenberg

Medical No Sense Very

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.
Ludacris

Trying Through Mode

Once you do have a child, you want to talk about every detail of it. And it is really boring to all your friends and it should be. I was really worried about even going there at all.
Matt Berninger

Want Going About

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
Noam Chomsky

College College Student

Self-reliance is not always possible; we have to acknowledge that there are situations of dramatic crisis which will force us to substitute non-existing public delivery systems.
Peter Maurer

Always Delivery Which

I used to imagine working as a White House staffer some day, so it was pretty amazing to be there... realizing another dream.
Rachel Platten

Pretty Imagine Some

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'
Ryan Reynolds

London Agent Been

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one.
Sharon Gless

Other Everybody Wiped

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
Stephen Ambrose

Blue Eyes Mine Clearest

I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
Tao Okamoto

Other Wolverine Roles

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.
Todd Phillips

Television Still Certainly

It's all in the writing. The writing has got to be there. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.
Wes Bentley

Matter Done Got

Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' house and my older cousins were there and I could watch it, I was infatuated with the idea that I could one day be a DJ or the host of a show.
Winnie Harlow

Grandparents DJ Idea