Gavin Extence Quotes

#1. Not all scars are bad, Alex. Some are worth hanging on to ...

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#2. Apt and poetic though this was, it was simply too bleak to read at a funeral. Instead I settled on Rumfoord's farewell speech on page 2007, which starts: "I am not dying. I am merely taking my leave of the solar system," and ends: "I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.

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#3. There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

Katsuaki Watanabe

#4. Change is crucial. It brings new thought; new thought leads to innovative actions.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#5. Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

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#6. Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. It will set your free.

Mumford And Sons

#7. I tapped on the door, with all the power of a farting flea.

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#8. Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.

Muhammad Yunus

#9. I didn't mind walking into danger on my own. Not the concept of it, anyway.

Gwenda Bond

#10. For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.

James Payn

#11. The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.

James A. Michener

#12. All these thoughts drifted like clouds through the virtual space of my mind's eye - tiny electrical and chemical signals that combined to create an entire world - but then, after a while, everything just kind of melted away. All that was left was a calm blue void. I felt very happy.

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#13. Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.

John Mearsheimer

#14. I was half expecting it, but it still came as kind of a shock when the barrier stayed down. It's funny how some things can be so mixed up like that.

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#15. Fucking hell, Woods!' squealed Decker. 'You really are retarded!' Or he squealed something similar. I was no longer listening. He now held the book aloft and was waving it around like the monkey with the bone at the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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#16. I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible.

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#17. I kind of hate you, you know that?"
His eyes challenged that. "I'm asking you to marry me, not like me. Hate me all you want.

Nicole Williams

#18. Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

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#19. Acknowledging reality for myself was one thing. Having to explain what as happening - and what was going to happen - to another person was something else entirely. That would make it TOO real.

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#20. A part of her, the female, horny part she generally tried to ignore, sat up and took notice when he smiled, the shameless hussy.

Lexi George

#21. I think you can lose yourself in any creative activity - if you enjoy your job or enjoy a task, you can lose yourself in that.

Maria Bamford

#22. In life, there are no true beginnings or endings.

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#23. Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

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#24. I think a reading group should have a snappy name to attract members, don't you?'
Mr Peterson didn't ask about my snappy name, but I could tell his curiosity was piqued.
'The Secular Church of Kurt Vonnegut,' I said.
'Jesus F Christ,' said Mr Peterson.

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#25. [ ... ] from what I'd been able to ascertain online, the Swiss were a reassuringly practical people. They had a long, proud history of staying out of wars, preferring to devote themselves to more constructive endeavours like science, secure banking and building extremely accurate clocks.

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#26. And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.

Cassandra Clare

#27. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#28. You expect me to believe that you're being held against your will?" I raised a skeptical eyebrow. "You're roaming around the castle freely."
"As are you." He turned away from me then. "Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.

Amanda Hocking

#29. Sometimes words aren't needed.

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#30. In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record.

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#31. I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

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#32. The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of the story.

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#33. In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'

J. Cole

#34. Because sometimes chance and circumstance can seem like the most appalling injustice, but we just have to adapt. That's all we can do.

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