"And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes."
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"What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties."
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"Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?"
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"That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people."
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"By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future."
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"From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness."
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"Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good."
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"There is not a moment without some duty."
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"Even if things look very precise and very organized, chaos is always there. But I like the moment of chaos to be at the beginning. I cannot deal with the chaos at the end."
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"If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting."
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"It's funny how sometimes historians sneer at journalists, yet they depend on us in the future for the material that they mine. You realize that some of the stories wouldn't have been told if you hadn't gotten to them. There is that sense of capturing a moment that was just about to go over the horizon."
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"Tully/Ysolde: "Brom?" I asked, releasing his head. He reeled backwards for a moment, his eyes huge. "Are you all right?" Brom: "I couldn't breathe," he said, giving my boobs a wary glance."
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""I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.""
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"My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime."
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"It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy."
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"You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for."
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"Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear."
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"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject"
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"The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it"
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"We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come."
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