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One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves. Richard Bach

Great Experience Will Thought Whatever Think Our Ourselves Cosmic Somehow Something Laws Direction Lead True Leads Come Wishing Been Hold Anything Then Us Coincidence

You teach best what you most need to learn. Richard Bach

Best You Most Learn Teach Need

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. Thomas Hardy

Hope Disappointment Scar Entirely Never Leaves Ultimate Which Fulfillment Sudden

Make a difference about something other than yourselves. Toni Morrison

Other About Something Make Make A Difference Than Difference

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it. Toni Morrison

You Book Must Write Written Read Been Want

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. Elie Wiesel

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Elie Wiesel

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka

Book Within Frozen Us Should Sea Serve Ax

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse. H. P. Lovecraft

Life Strange Dark Will Thought Men Own Stars Tremble Worlds Our Minds Press Dimensions Hidden Moonstruck Only Glimpse Beyond Dead Globe Always May Impulse Afraid Children Which Sensitive Unholy Hereditary

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. H. P. Lovecraft

World Joke Indeed Comic Mankind

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests. H. P. Lovecraft

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft

Truth Religion Try Insist Young Consequences Backgrounds Would Followers True Merely Practical Were Quest Artificial Irrespective Conformity

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. H. P. Lovecraft

Nature Black Ocean White Silent Smooth Green Blue Grey

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. Leo Tolstoy

Government Rest Men Us Who Violence Association

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott

Life Success Work Beautiful Time Day You Age Youth Worth Old Will Become Few Old Age Pleasant Both Delightful Hours Employing Well Make Understand Prove Regrets Then Regular Useful Each Each Day Play Bring

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. Paulo Coelho

Faith You Reality Yourself Faithful Harmony More Joyful Disconnect Connects

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there. Thomas Hardy

Worse Seeing Something Blindness Condition Than

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder

Our Those Alive Only Said Hearts Moments Conscious Treasures

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley

War Democracy Country Unless Tyrant Must No Country Obedient Head Perfectly Highly Democratic Well Makes Scientific Governed Cease Effectively Trained Bureaucracy Modern Modern War Which Really Even Prepared Prepares Necessarily

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens

Best Worst Times

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