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I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

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If evil exists its to be found in our fears.

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For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their...more

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I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

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He learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke - the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in thei...more

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It's now what enters men's mouths that's evil. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

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Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

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Isn't wine prohibited here?" the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths ...more

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Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

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In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking...more

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Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of cir...more

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And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yoursel...more

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Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.