Wumen Huikai Quotes
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By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.
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When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.
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They're looking at the cold weather coming. That's what you're seeing in the market right now.
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Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.
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In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?
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“Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.
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I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.
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I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.
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Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.
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Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.
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To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.
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We were enlightened people and we fell for this; why wouldn't Muslims fall for this?
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I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
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Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
