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“Each day a whole world passes away, largely unappreciated, numbly relegated to obligation, commerce and routine. One day seems as unremarkable as the next. It's only through the inexorable accretion of days, weeks, months and years, that we come to appreciate with heartbreaking clarity how incredibly unique and precious each lost day has been.”
― S.W. Clemens

“What is Insulin?
Insulin is a hormone that allows the glucose (also called blood sugar) in your blood to get out of your bloodstream and into your cells for energy for whatever your current activity or inactivity is. If you have more glucose in your bloodstream than your current energy need, the excess is stored in your liver (called glycogen in its storage form). If your liver is full and you still have excess glucose in your bloodstream, the rest is stored as body fat around your butt, thighs, belly—and generally every place you don’t want it to be. ”
― Rick Mystrom, Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer

“Ngo Diem was heard to say, “I want a repressive machine controlling the whole of the country of South Vietnam from Saigon to the remotest villages. You shall apply massacres, torture, deportations, and mass imprisonment while conducting constant raids. You shall make the population so fearful of this government that no-one shall ever dare to become a revolutionary or any other kind of outlaw!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
― Michael G. Kramer

“As I sat dumbfounded, seemingly paralyzed in my corner, resorting to my old, reliable strategy of scribbling when unsure of how to respond to Sanjit, Sanjit appended his counsel with a dose of silence – one reminiscent to that of a few days prior. The students looked upward and downward, fans to notes to pens to toes, outward and inward, peers to souls, and of course, toward the direction of the perceived elephant in the room, Sanjit’s books. Simultaneously, Sanjit confidently and patiently searched among the students before finding my eyes; once connected, the lesson moved forward.”
― Colin Phelan, The Local School

“We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.”
― Gregory Dickow, Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose

“Séamus’s eyebrows, like the antennae of the potato beetle but with a greater sense of grievance, poke forward as he delivers his first utterance of the morning.”
― Michael Tobert, Karna's Wheel

“First, those spaceships are mine, including the one Callum came here with, and not free to use as you wish,” Caderyn says. “Second, you are not a Teryn, and as such I do not have to honor your Bride’s Choice claim. We are done here.”
― S.G. Blaise, True Teryn

“When we see a rock wall blocking our way, God sees a barrier to guard us someday.”
― Carolyn Cutler Hughes, Through God's Eye

“If you didn't already know, game show talent works fewer days a year than almost every profession, except maybe members of Congress.”
― John Bennardo, Just a Typo: The Cancellation of Celebrity Mo Riverlake

“Somehow, creation manages to form without species intervention.”
― Kyle Keyes, Matching Configurations

“Toni's Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic...you! As soon as you let doubt creep in---you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.”
― C.Toni Graham

“Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on the screen, as Johnny Weissmuller arced through a canopy of trees boldly screaming his signature jungle call.”
― KGE Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

“To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.”
― Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

“It't hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Avíttas szó ez ma már: ájulás. Pedig nagyon is szalonképes volt annak idején, amikor repülősóval töltött üvegcsét dugtak még a púderozott hölgyek orra alá, hogy magukhoz térjenek. Hasznos, közszájon forgó kifogásnak számított, ha nem került sor bizonyos tettekre az ilyen-amolyan hatalmak, hatalmasságok ellen. Újabban viszont általánosan elharapódzik.
Miközben újabb és újabb mentőprogramokkal igyekeznek elsikálni egynémely csődöket, amely csődök ezalatt bedőlt bankokban próbálják meghúzni magukat télire; miközben abba a hitbe ringatja magát az egész világ, hogy – ha nem is most rögtön, de legalábbis hamarosan – ránk köszönt a fellendülés, mi több: a haladás újabb korszaka; miközben a számtalan prominens egyik halogató kongresszust rendezi a másik után, mintha bőven lenne még idő: mi magunk mindeközben a teljes és egyre teljesebb behálóztatás mellett döntöttünk, mégpedig szabad akaratunkból.
Elérhetők vagyunk a nap huszonnégy órájában. Megfigyelhetők vagyunk mindenütt. Egyetlen kattintással lehívhatók a személyes adataink. Ügyes-bajos dolgaink – a diszkontáruház, a mozi, a vécé – megörökítvék. Köröm nagyságú chip memorizálja szerelmünk rögös útjait. Nincs hová rejtőznünk, láthatók vagyunk mindenütt. Mások vigyázzák még az álmunkat is. Soha nem lehetünk többé egyedül.
Mit lehet mármost tenni? Ájultan tartózkodom, és visszautasítom az ajánlatot. Nem hever okostelefon a szemüvegem, a dohányom, a pipám mellett, senki ne tanítson engem kimeresztett ujjal szörfölni, guglizni, twitterezni. A Facebook sem tartja számon a barátaimat, se az ellenségeimet.
Elszöszmötölök csöndben a lúdtollal. Magamban dörmögök legfeljebb néha ezt-azt, a tehénlepényről, a kartézi búvárról, a hangyák haladáseszméjéről; és mégis valamiféle felsőbb hatalom igazgat engem is, névtelen hatalom, bármely névvel illessük is.
Nem híreli jöttét semmiféle nesz. Táptalaja a kiokosodott ostobaság. Egykor vallási köntösbe bújtatott mindenütt jelenvalóság létére újabban tárgyilagosnak tetteti, a civil társadalom letéteményesének titulálja magát.
Nem! Átlátszóvá tesz bennünket, kiüríti a memóriánkat. Leveszi a vállunkról a felelősséget. Elcsitítja a kételyeinket. A szabadság látszatával kecsegtet. Gyámkodik felettünk a háló, amelyben fickándozunk.”
― Günter Grass, Vonne Endlichkait

“Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath."
Oh, I am mousy," she said."All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try.
Even a mouse bites.”
― Rachel Caine, The Dead Girls' Dance

“You are a nobody! An It!”
― David Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

“Oo, I like a good cat fight – especially when it doesn’t involve me,’ Oscar said.
‘Shut up!’ Bryony and Raya said simultaneously. A hairline crack formed in the ice between them.”
― Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

“Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Das Bus,” The Simpsons (season 9, episode 14) A tongue-in-cheek retelling full of clever references to Golding’s novel. After their school bus veers off a bridge during a Model United Nations field trip, Bart, Lisa, and their classmates find themselves stranded on a desert island. Overt allusions to fear (of an island monster), hoarding of resources (junk food salvaged from the sunken bus), warring factions (those who support Bart, and those who oppose him), a violent chase scene (Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse running for their lives), and a final voiceover (about how the children learned to function as a society until they were rescued) serve as inside jokes for knowledgeable viewers.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker

“I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“When you focus on lack and scarcity and what you don’t have, you fuss about it with your family, you discuss it with your friends, you tell your children that you don’t have enough - “We don’t have enough for that, we can’t afford that” - then you’ll never be able to afford it, because you begin to attract more of what you don’t have. If you want abundance, if you want prosperity, then focus on abundance. Focus on prosperity. (Lisa Nichols)

Many people in Western culture are striving for success. They want the great home, they want their business to work, they want all these outer things. But what we found in our research is that having these outer things does not necessarily guarantee what we really want, which is happiness. So we go for these outer things thinking they’re going to bring us happiness , but it’s backward. You need to go for the inner joy, the inner peace, the inner vision first, and then all of the outer things appear. (Marci Shimoff)

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― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret