"Fiction is socially meaningful."

-- David Guterson

#Meaningful Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops.”
“I would never have discovered alcohol.”
“...if I know him and like him just a little bit more than I already do, our emotional connection will be too strong for me to ever go back to the way I was before him.”
“...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.”
“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.”
“You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.”

Source : Polly Horvath (2012). “One Year in Coal Harbor”, p.16, Schwartz & Wade
“There is rest in this world nowhere except in Christ, the manifested love of God. Trust in excellence, and the better you become, the keener is the feeling of deficiency. Wrap up all in doubt, and there is a stern voice that will thunder at last out of the wilderness upon your dream.”
“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”

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