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“The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.”
Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “House Of Chains: Malazan Book Of The Fallen 4”, p.393, Random House
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“Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.”
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“Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.”
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“I'll listen to you, but you need to treat me with a little respect. Because it doesn't sound like I'm a pawn. Sounds like I'm more of a queen." A vein in his temple began to throb, and she grew bolder, the sense of power emanating from the mark on her chest filing her with the mettle she'd lost after the break-in two years ago. Lowering her voice to a tense whisper, she nipped his earlobe. "Checkmate.”
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“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself.”
Source : Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”
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“If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.”
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“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.”
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“Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.”
Source : David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company
