![I wanted to bring the book out right now because I think anyone who cares about Tibet knew there would be disturbances in the run up to the Olympics [2008]. Many Tibetans feel it's their last chance to broadcast their suffering and frustration and pain to the world before the Olympics take place and China is accepted as a modern nation and the world forgets about Tibet.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-wanted-to-bring-the-book-out-right-now-because-i-think-anyone-who-cares-about-t.jpg)
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I have no intention of running for office again. George Allen
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Total war is the most humane in the long run. C. S. Lewis
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We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.
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Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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What a woman says to an eager lover, write it on running water, write it on air. Catullus
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister. Gail Carson Levine
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Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
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No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
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If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
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I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. Carrie Fisher
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If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience? Carl Sagan
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling. Gail Carriger
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