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“I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.”
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“What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.”
Source : J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.80, InterVarsity Press
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“The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.”
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“When you face two options and each seems to please God, consider the one that displays God's glory, power and strength. This makes room for God to reveal Himself to you and show Himself through you. Don't be fearful about the hard road he may ask you to take He desires to show Himself strong in you and will encourage you to do things that require trust and faith.”
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“Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.”
Source : "Vanessa Williams On Scandals, TV And Her Mom". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2012. 
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“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.”
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“At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.”
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“...I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit.”
Source : Irena Klepfisz (1982). “Keeper of accounts”
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“Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.”
Source : Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.146, Knopf
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“Love is a spirit all compact of fire.”
