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“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

tags: book, calvino, if, italo, night, on, reading, traveler, winter-s

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“If somebody steps on your shoes and ruins them, don't freak out.. get a new pair of shoes. If you miss something, don't freak out.. there's nothing you can do to change it.. just move on”
― Usher

tags: life, move, on, shoes

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“We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...”
― Cordwainer Smith, The Rediscovery of Man

tags: fiction, fire, on, revolution, science, stars, world

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“He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.”
― T.H. White

tags: do, on, tombstone, want, what, you, your

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“Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!”
― Fake Cinna

tags: a-parody, cinna, from, on, youtube

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“Whatever is triggering you, is on you.”
― Richie Norton

tags: 100, on, personal-responsibility, responsibility, trigger, triggering, whatever, you

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“You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide”
― Elizabeth Kay, Jinx on the Divide

tags: divide, elizabeth, elizabeth-kay, jinx, kay, on, the

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“He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

tags: and, every, god, hair, head, knows, on, sees, shed, tear, you, your

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“A day spent on the moon is enough to make one believe in God.”
― Khalid Masood

tags: believe, day, enough, god, moon, on, spent

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“Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given objective with tremendous results.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

tags: attempt, countless, focus, goals, god-given, just, limited, normal, objecctive, on, one, people, results, success, tremendous, weird, with

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“Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

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“Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

tags: all, focused, god, jesus, most, moves, never, of, on, our, remain, rock, that, we

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“His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

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“While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking statements is this: omelets do not come from chickens – it is eggs which come from chickens. Omelets on the other hand, are an entirely Human invention. Humans being here, the ‘middle man’ as it were.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

tags: checkens, chickens, eggs, hand, here, human, invention, it-is, middle, omelets, on, the, these, this, to, two, were, while

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“Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you have a tendency to drift into habitual sin- and you recognize this about yourself.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

tags: a, about, and, beleive, drift, habitual, have, into, keeping, life, on, recognize, sin, someone, speaking, tendency, the, things, this, to, track, with, without, you, your, yourself

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“You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.”
― Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

tags: a, and, day, doing, god, he, into, is, it-s, new, of, on, pain, past, person, place, press, release, take, the, thing, to, transform, wants, you

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“Now he sat alone; on a disabled starship about fifty years from anywhere on conversion drive – assuming he still had that. Insurance was a good thing – a very good thing - but it wasn’t going to help him much out here. The highlight of his afternoon was going to be staring at the blinking bridge instrumentation – which just happened to be running on the emergency batteries and actually blinking, like for real. Moreover, since his mutinous crew had made off with the Short Shit, the ships only shuttle, he was facing quite a problem”
― Christina Engela, Blachart

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“Imagine, if you will:

A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.”
― Christina Engela, Dead Man's Hammer

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“Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to ‘cleaning’ as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings – and anyway, she didn’t need to know her mark’s entire pedigree or life’s story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read – on those rare occasions – her books were always dog-eared from the back.”
― Christina Engela

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“Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I know I’d rather go down Brickmaker’s Kloof on a bicycle with no brakes! Driving any car at that speed in anything other than an expensive German luxury car on a long, straight autobahn is enough of a risk (let alone the risk of hitting anything) – but if you try that with a Beetle and add a light crosswind, factor in some rubber peeling off your tire, and you’ll more than likely find yourself dancing alone in a dark corner without any music.”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

tags: a, and, any, anything, brakes, brickmaker-s, crosswind, dancing, down, drive, enough, factor, german, hitting, in, is, luxury, music, no, now, of, on, purpose, tire, to, with, you-ll, yourself

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“Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant’s body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, ‘the Hammer’ grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could’ve seen the look on the face of Indomitable’s captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips – intent on taking the ship for himself.

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― Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning

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“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!”
“Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his voice level. Blaine grinned at him lopsidedly and giggled, almost choking. He slapped the table, knocking his empty glass over.
“Ye-ss, I am! Don’t ssup-pose you – think I co-uld ssit here an’ calmly wait t’die – dýou? Weee-ll, not ssob-er anyway. Ha ha ha.”
Disgust and hopelessness were swelling inside him. He felt like punching that drunken face till it was either sober or unconscious.
“Damn it, Captain! We need you – the crew needs you! You’re turning your back on them – in our most desperate time!”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

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“I thought that life is colourful... and people are going to do some cool shit... but in the end... I ended up like a junkie watching TV for trying to move on...”
― Deyth Banger, Wacky

tags: colourful, move, on, people, that

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“I bet a whole fucking life on my parents... it really nothing happened, their moral rules and their visions cost me massive trauma... mainly because I was in the other people's eyes "Weird".”
― Deyth Banger, Wacky

tags: fucking, my, on, parents, wacky, whole

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“In Life cheaters get on the long run and honest people don't get far.”
― Deyth Banger

tags: cheaters, get, life, long, on, run

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“Constituation is build up on missguided conduct + manipulation.”
― Deyth Banger

tags: build, conduct, on, up

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“I am researching why you would not allow Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on site.”
― Steven Magee

tags: astronomy, kitt, noao, not, observatory, on, osha, peak, researching, site

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“Why take minimum from life if you can take maximum from life? Both are on the table!”
― Vambola Tullus

tags: both, life, maximum, minimum, on, table, take, the, why

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“1 is 2, two is three, 3 is four, four is 5.

0 is zero.”
― Mearistw

tags: division, ideas, on, options, path, philosophy, smoke, the-wall

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“I had assessed the Desoto Solar Farm as only having a few honest workers on site.”
― Steven Magee

tags: assessed, desoto, farm, few, honest, lies, on, site, solar, workers

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