Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.
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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.
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Deep in the meadow, under the willowa bed of grass, a soft green pillow lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyesand when again they open, the sun will rise. Hear it's safe, here it's warm hear the daisies guard you from every harm hear your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true hear is the place where i love you. Deep in the meadow, hidden far away a clock of leaves, a moonbeam rayforget your woes and let your troubles lay and when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Hear it's safe, hears its' warm hear the daises guard you from every harm Hear your dreams are sweet and tomorrow bring them true hear is the place where i love you.
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You see, but you do not observe.
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.
You can't eat books, sweetheart.
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
Play hard to get. You should be.
You could put a blond wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to fuck it.
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water.
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
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The past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love.. All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.
I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as a figment of the human imagination, between working in a tall green glass building on Park Avenue and collecting litter in a park. In fact, there may have been no difference at all.
This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.
The way it always did.
You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.
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