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“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”
Source : "Ride the Waves: How to Take Control of Your Life One Emotion at a Time". Book by Tracy Friesen, p. 386, April, 2013.
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“The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.”
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“It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks”
Source : Song: In The Beginning
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“The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?”
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“Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.”
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“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”
Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
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“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish”
Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
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“It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.”