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“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
Source : Politics of Experience (1967) ch. 5
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“I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that's why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.”
Source : "Interview With Jason Bourne Author Eric Van Lustbader". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.
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“The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.”
Source : Charles Bradlaugh (1889). “Theological Essays”, p.119, Library of Alexandria
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“I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children. I've felt that need to want to raise a child. It's a creative urge. But you can express that creative urge in other ways.”
Source : "Matt Dillon Has Marriage On His Mind" by Amy Bonawitz, www.cbsnews.com. July 20, 2006.
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“I try to anticipate the ball well. That's something that's helped me since when I was a kid. Just learning to anticipate and read the game well. That's helped me. When I moved over to Spain and I was 15 I was playing with big guys who were 22 years to 28 years old and I was 15 so I couldn't beat them with power. I had to beat them with touch shots and variety and anticipation and all of those things. I learned a lot when I was over there.”
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“What is well done is done soon enough.”
Source : Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (seigneur), Gui Du Faur de Pibrac, Odet de La Noue (seigneur de Téligny), Henry Smith (1967). “The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and Edited”
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“Discipline for me is about respect. It's not even about self-respect; it's about respect for life and all it offers.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The angels are Divine messengers of light who offer us guidance... Our willingness to receive Divine guidance is what positions us at the right time and place for a message.”
Source : Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books