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“love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.”
Source : Ann Hood (2013). “The Obituary Writer: A Novel”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.”
Source : Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”
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“Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”
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“That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.”
Source : "Kaskade remixes what it means to be an EDM superstar for intimate Spring Fling tour". Interview with Spencer Dukoff, www.nydailynews.com. May 14, 2017. 
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“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.”
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“I dont know what it is about the open road that makes it so appealing. Maybe its because when youre headed somewhere, you dont have to be where youve already been.”
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“Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.”
Source : Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin
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“Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.”
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“What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?”
Source : "The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part V". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. January 19, 2004.
