"People want you to be ordinary. They don't like it when people are different. They don't like it when a man soars over their heads while they stand in the dirt. People hate you when you're special; it reminds them of everything that they aren't"

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Source : Robert Crais (2003). “The Last Detective: A Novel”, p.129, Doubleday

Robert Crais

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“Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter, by peaceful or revolutionary means, into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.”

Source : Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.9, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“The mind is the reality. You are what you think.”

Source : Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage
“God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.”
“Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.”

Source : Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.161, David C Cook
“Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.”
“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.”
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”

Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”
“We should be supportive of the president and supportive of rights of all in a pluralistic democracy that we're called to love. And we live our faith; we don't legislate our faith.”

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