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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Describe Movie Second Image
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

Moral Story Temporarily Fable
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

Canada Wonderful Political Faith
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

Planet Beautiful Happy Pretty
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Fiction Reality Interpret Volition
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Think Comes Sense Discomfort
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Reader's Animal Suspend Disbelief
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xpect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on Allah.

When Friends Fill Emptiness
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If there is one recipe for unhappiness it is that: expectations.

Recipe One Unhappiness Expectations
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Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood.

Interpret Language Heart Hard
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Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Human Progress Automatic Inevitable
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Creative Darkness Man Destructive
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We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.

Time Creatively Knowledge Ripe
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Deep Disappointment Love Where
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Forgive Love Capacity Maintain
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

Deeply Realize Moment Now
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Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Success World Mad Anything
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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Acceptance Looks Passive State
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All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

Negativity Caused Accumulation Psychlogical
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Primary Unhappiness Situation Thoughts
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Thinking Wonderful Applied However
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

Preventing Action Acknowledge Fear
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I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.

Dream Big Great Future
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It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Currency Country Understand Anti-China
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My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

Value Woman Waist Number
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Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.

Love Bring Real Calm
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his life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won’t last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn’t perfect. And it isn’t. It isn’t perfectly good. But, it also isn’t perfectly bad, either.

Perfectly Attribute Causes Pain
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To some,Islam is nothing but a code of rules and regulations.But,to those who understand,it is a perfect vision of life

Regulations Islam Code Rules
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This world cannot break you—unless you give it permission. And it cannot own you unless you hand it the keys—unless you give it your heart. And so, if you have handed those keys to dunya for a while—take them back. This isn’t the End. You don’t have to die here. Reclaim your heart and place it with its rightful owner: God.

Permission World Break Hand
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Simplicity Sex Nonchallant
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Dressing is a way of life.
Dressing Way Life
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Sex Clothes Appeal
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Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance Wearing Forgetting What
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Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

Faith Unshakable Belief Tremble
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If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

Sense Humor Trouble One
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Woman Important What Dress
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I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it’s because I’m as old as I am! But it’s just polite.

Touch Fast Chivalry Sound
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People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board.

Connect People Great Friend
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Woman Inspired Totally Point
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I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.

Never Dreamed Happiness Ducking
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You have become my thinking’s single thought, My heart’s first love: it had no love before. I love you as no love on earth is wrought, I love you now and love you evermore.

Become Thinking Heart Love
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My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Best Friend Brings Me
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So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.

Fast Feet Image Mirror
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The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.

Difference Between Couture Fabrics
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Good clothing is a passport to happiness.
Happiness Good Passport Clothing
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

Friendship Love Warm Steady
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It is important that you not believe your own publicity. Be grateful for whatever praise you receive, but take it with a grain of salt.

Impotant Believe Own Publicity
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