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Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better.
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
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Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
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Being cold for a short period of time is not life-threatening. You can perform a task when you're cold. We proved that when the Vikings played outside.
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Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
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Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
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Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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