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Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether. Robert Kurson

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When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico. Rudolfo Anaya

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art. Russell Banks

Art Me Age People Writing Made Reading High High Art Classics Particular Like Led American Taught Ordinary Ordinary People Really Twain Who Lives Early Early Age

Life is hard, but we make it much harder. Ryan Holiday

Life Life Is Hard Make Much Hard Harder

We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole. Sam Harris

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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. Sam Keen

Life You Heart Know Your

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson

Death You Push Sure Up Die Elevator Button

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Sam Levenson

Happiness You Pursue Itself Cannot By-Product

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. Samuel Johnson

Smile Me Wise Rich Feed

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Samuel Johnson

Man Mind He Knows His Wonderfully Hanged Fortnight

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel Johnson

Difficulties Strive Highest Felicity Human Them Conquer

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Samuel Johnson

Overcome Will First Nothing Possible Must Objections Attempted Ever

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. Samuel Johnson

Man Money Except Wrote Blockhead Ever

Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Hope Faith You First First Thing Chest Very Pack Should Thing

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god. Scott Alexander

God Best Happy Money Way Best Way Make Hobby Your

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses. Scott Spencer

Ignorance Denial Think Thinking Else Everything Everything Else Evolution Thousands Thousands Of Years Magical Seems Self-Delusion Like Surely Bliss Years Survived Human Human Evolution Ignorance Is Bliss Uses

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents. Sean Covey

Gifts Find Give Parent Talents Greatest Greatest Gifts Child Them Help

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options. Sharon Salzberg

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