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There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. — Baltasar Gracian

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. — Evelyn Waugh

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing. — Frances Stark

Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words. — Ivy Devlin

I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.' — Nicole Richie

We are FREE, not bound like a Tree. We can Move, we can Dance ... we can take a Chance! -RVM — R.v.m.

Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.' Then — H.G.Wells

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. — William Morris

The idea that pornography is intrinsically exploitative and sexist is bizarre: pornography is just some fucking, after all. The act of having sex isn't sexist, so there's no way pornography can be, in itself, inherently misogynist.

So no. Pornography isn't the problem. Strident feminists are fine with pornography. It's the porn industry that's the problem. The whole thing is as offensive, sclerotic, depressing, emotionally bankrupt and desultory as you would expect a widely unregulated industry worth, at an extremely conservative estimate, $30 billion to be. No industry ever made that amount of money without being superlatively crass and dumb. — Caitlin Moran

The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are. — Esther Hicks

NOCEBO: Latin for "I will harm"; a negative placebo; physical manifestation of pessimism; self-fulfilling prophecy of disbelief. In the nocebo effect, a bad result occurs without any physiological bias. In one study, women who believed they were more prone to heart disease were four times more likely to die of it than women with the same risk factors but without a pessimistic outlook. — Jon Winokur

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Beliefs are limits to be transcended. — John Lilly

I'm not playing!' Sophie retorted indignantly, 'I'm doing a very important philosophical experiment! — Jostein Gaarder

Purity or impurity depends on oneself,
No one can purify another. — Gautama Buddha