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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
-- Harvey Fierstein
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
-- Harvey Fierstein
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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
-- Roberto Bolano
Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
-- Roberto Bolano
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Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
-- Paulo Coelho
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
-- Paulo Coelho
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
-- Chinese Proverb
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
-- Chinese Proverb
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A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.
-- Andre Dubus (Meditations from a Movable Chair)
A story can always break into pieces while it sits inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut or caress, to a new truth.
-- Andre Dubus (Meditations from a Movable Chair)
Don't beg for mercy.
World is Not a fair game. Play it your way. Fair way.
World is Not a fair game. Play it your way. Fair way.
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Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.
-- E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.
-- E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
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I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
-- Bruce Lee
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
-- Bruce Lee
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Richard Lingard
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-- Richard Lingard