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The Little Drummer Girl

by John le Carré

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“They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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“A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: animosity, attitude, bitter, bitterness, confidence, courage, criticize, drive, faith, focus, gossip, greatness, hate, haters, hyena, insult, jealous, jealousy, judge, laugh, laughter, life, lion, lion-quote, mock, mockery, negative, negativity, perseverance, persevere, personality, ridicule, small-minds, strength, strong, success, successful-people

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“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

tags: argument, dispute, empowerment, men, superiority, wit, women

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“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”
― Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery

tags: dogma, evil, fanaticism, fundamentalism, religion

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