Eric Thomas Quotes
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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I shop, therefore I am.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
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Girls always make our music go. They set the trends. It starts with the ladies.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
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A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
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By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
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It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
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I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
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I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.
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A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.
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Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
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Better is a book than a well built house.
