"To live a life half dead, a living death."

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John Milton

“Knowing how to win is the first step. We must also know how to make use of our victories.”
“I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.”
“Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she's in her mid- to late 70s.”
“Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.”
“Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium.”
“I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision.”
“People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.”

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