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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
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The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
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Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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