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You can’t fully prepare. You do your best to acquire diverse skills. You try to learn from your successes and mistakes over the years. You try to assemble a team with varied talents and expertise. Mostly, you strive to stay calm enough to think clearly even under extreme pressure. You try to use the adrenaline for focus rather than panic. You stay on your toes, ready to improvise. And you hope for the best.
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I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.
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When you have to jump, you jump.
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Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic." "Sure you were," Jason said. "You're just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.
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Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.
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If the whole meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear.
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The Gray Assassin? Who isn’t here to kill us? They don’t want us kind of dead, they want us extremely dead!
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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Everything with a beginning has an ending. Any magic that can be done, can be undone. Anything you can make, can be unmade.
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...but you don't need to understand everything about a world to live in it.
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Hard to call it a party without sardines.
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False humility is more insulting than open pride!
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Choices determine character.
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Meaning and purpose of life hinged on what he chose to love and who he chose to become, the answer became clear. His heart already knew he should.
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Hours of crisis often call for sacrifice. In matters of consequence, when have doubt and fear given the best advice? Why not heed faith, courage, and honor?
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When Hugo climbed out of the back, the dogs ran away yelping. Apparently they didn’t require magic milk to sense that the golem meant trouble.
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Who is the coolest author ever? Is it the guy who wrote Fablehaven? If not, what’s the matter with you?
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
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I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.
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Look, my terrible childhood is all I’ve got! Don’t you dare try to top it.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
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Many lessons must be lived to be understood. You’ll find that it doesn’t so much matter what happens as you live—what gives it all purpose and meaning is who you become.
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The wordless song had the power of an operatic aria mingled with the sweetness of a lullaby. It was longing, beckoning, hopeful and heartbreaking.
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Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.
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