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“Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.”
Source : Nancy Farmer (2015). “The Sea of Trolls”, p.265, Simon and Schuster
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“We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.”
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“By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.”
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“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.”
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“To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.”
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“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.”
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“I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.”
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“The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's great need. We need all of you to find your vocation. To develop your joys, your passions, and to match them to the world's great needs.”
Source : "A Navy SEAL's wise advice to graduates" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. May 25, 2012. 
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“My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.”
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“Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?”
