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Her problem was that she could not interpret her own feelings for him. Not since before reaching puberty had she lowered her guard to let another person get so close as she had with him. To be quite honest, he had a trying ability to penetrate her defences and to get her to talk about personal matters and private feelings. Even though she had enough sense to ignore most of his questions, she talked about herself in a way that she would never, even under the threat of death, have imagined doing with any other person. It frightened her and made her feel naked and vulnerable to his will. — Stieg Larsson

I have the highest regard for Meryl Streep as an actress and think she's a fabulous person as well. — Lindsay Duncan

The master leads
by emptying people's minds
and filling their cores,
by weakening their ambition
and toughening their resolve. — Lao-Tzu

The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term. — Buzz Aldrin

I debated in high school! If you told things that weren't true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It's too bad they don't apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students. — Mark Hamill

And then alas! I let the matter reset, watching and waiting only, as we have too often done. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck. — Marissa Mayer

As long as everyone thinks you're a cutter or tried to commit suicide you'll always be on the outs. — Katie McGarry

Senator Rand Paul reflected on Mitt Romney's potential 2016 campaign and said, 'It's sort of what Einstein said, that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.' When someone told him Einstein didn't actually say that, he said, 'In the words of Gandhi, 'My bad.' — Jimmy Fallon

Is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. I never made a mistake like the one I made with Tourteau again, not with anyone in my life. And I have had a very, very long life. You will learn from your mistake, too. You must promise yourself that you will never behave like that with anyone else again. One mistake does not define you, Julian. Do you understand me? You must simply act better next time. I nodded, but I still cried for a long, long time after that. — R.J. Palacio

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying. — Joy Harjo

The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely directs the consumption of the state itself, but because a great proportion of the consumption of individuals is gained by its will and example. — Jean-Baptiste Say