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  36. <P><I> Sophira F. Sipayzo</I>
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  55. <P>My first quote is one I made up, it is something I have said and something I think I will always believe in. Here it is.</P>
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  56. <P>"The friendships people build up together take a lot of work. It will even require a lot of work still, if they are to make it last. A lot of work, and a lot of strength, and more trust than anyone can reasonably expect of another person is all very important. All of that goes into building what they have. I don’t want to see any of that go to waste and I don’t think I’m the only one. So, cherish your friends, cherish your friendship with them, and do not hold hatred in your heart for those you once loved. Forgive yourself, forgive them, and if trust can never be restored, then move on. But do not let the ugliness in this world make you forget the beauty, for it is just as real."
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  58. <P>"That's a bad habit, this blaming things you don't like on yourself," she said, "It doesn't make them not happen, just makes you miserable in between."<br> - Nix Winter at Tokala@SPAMrulestheweb.com (just remove SPAM)</P>
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  59. <P>"Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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  60. <P>"Different isn't evil, it's just different."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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  61. <P>"I've been there, fought the fight, lost the war, and there's no t-shirt, no medal. In the end is only the knowledge of who you are, what you are, and that the things that make you happy aren't evil. You aren't evil for wanting them. And the only person that can stand in judgment of you, is the people you allow to stand in judgment of you. Don't give them that power over you. Don't accept it. Be who you are."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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  62. <P>"Women teach men how they want to be treated. What you tolerate - you will get; what you don't tolerate - you won't get."<br> - <a href="mailto:rhodea2k1@hotmail.com">Rozea</A></P>
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  63. <P>"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."<br> - Henry David Thoreau. (1817-1862)</P>
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  64. <P>"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."<br> - William Shakespeare.</P>
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  65. <P>"Sympathy with nature is an evidence of perfect health. You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind."<br> - Henry D. Thoreau. </P>
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  66. <P>"... in wilderness is the preservation of the World."<br> - Henry David Thoreau.</P>
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  67. <P>"Earth laughs in flowers."<br> - Ralph Waldo Emerson.</P>
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  68. <P>"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not yet lived."<br> - Henry David Thoreau.</P>
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  69. <P>"How does a human become less human? By disregarding love, by becoming inflexible, by operating as a machine without choice, knowledge, or wisdom."<br> - Mary Alice Money.</P>
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  70. <P>"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love,"<br> - Henry W. Beecher.</P>
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  71. <P>"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation,"<br> Simone de Beauvoir.</P>
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  72. <P>"The heart wants what the heart wants. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens, and you don't do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt the people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes,"<br> From the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book series, by Laurell K. Hamilton.</p>
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  73. <P>"When I say I love you, it’s not because I want you, or because I can’t have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I’ve seen your kindness and your strength. I’ve seen the best and the worst of you and I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You are a hell of a woman."<BR> - Spike, BtVS, ("Touched," 7020).</P>
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  74. <P>"Ask me why I keep on loving you when it's clear that you don't feel the same way for me... the problem is that as much as I can't force you to love me, I can't force myself to stop loving you,"<br> Author Unknown.</p>
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  75. <P>"Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have,"<br> Author Unknown.</p>
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  76. <P>"According to the system, falling in love is accompanied by great emotional disturbances; the lover is bewildered, helpless, tortured by mental and physical pain, and exhibits certain "symptoms," such as pallor, trembling, loss of appetite, sleeplessness, sighing, weeping, etc. He agonizes over his condition and indulges in endless self-questioning and reflections on the nature of love and his own wretched state."<br> - <a href="http://faculty.acu.edu/~appletonl/mb1/love.htm">Handbook to Literature</a> (http://faculty.acu.edu/~appletonl/mb1/love.htm)</P>
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  77. <P>"The easy attainment of love makes it of little value; difficulty of attainment makes it prized."<br> - Capellanus' 14th rule</P>
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  78. <P>"[...] the lover submitted to his lady as a knight to his lord, swearing loyal and enduring service. Drawing attention to his pretz (worth) and valor (courage)—further increased by his pure and noble love- he would request merce (pity) and some reward."<br> - Damaris Lockewood von Lubeck</P>
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  79. <P>"And therfor, swete, rewe on my peynes smerte, /
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  85. Chaucer, “Complaint to his Lady” (14th century)</P>
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  87. <P>"So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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  88. <P>"Well may that love prosper through which one hopes to have the joy of successful love and serving loyally! But I expect nothing from mine except death, since I ask for love in such a lofty place. And so I see nothing in it but my own end, if my lady does not take pity on me or if Devotion and Love do not ask it from her. . . . In Love there is such great nobility, that it has the power to make the poor rich; so I look for its mercy and help. . . . Loyal love (of which I have a great abundance) will kill me."<BR> - Gace Brule, Codex Buranus, 13th century.</P>
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  89. <P>"True love was not an unregulated passion. Its essence was absolute loyalty and self-denial, service and travail, in favor of one's lady. Only by suffering and by the accomplishment of great deeds could the knight-errant prove his mettle and demonstrate the unblemished quality of his courtly love. The lover's inner struggle between his desire for immediate fulfillment and his awareness of the moral value implicit in striving for the unattainable; between individual ambitions and outward social constraints; between the self-imposed state of submission and the overwhelming need to express pain and resentment: these are the antitheses that lend the poetry of Courtly Love its dramatic tension and emotional richness."<BR> - Damaris Lockewood von Lubeck</P>
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  90. <P>"Love makes an ugly and rude person shine with all beauty, knows how to endow with nobility even one of humble birth, can even lend humility to the proud;  . . . Oh, what a marvelous thing is love, which makes a man shine with so many virtues and which teaches everyone to abound in good customs [. . .]"<br> - “What is the Effect of Love?” Capellanus, A Treatise on Courtly Love</P>
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  91. <P>"We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humor. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you -- to live in peace. We are much more similar than you think."<br> - Margot Adler.</P>
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  92. <P>"When one defines oneself as Pagan, it means she or he follows an earth or nature religion, one that sees the divine manifest in all creation. The cycles of nature are our holy days, the earth is our temple, its plants and creatures our partners and teachers. We worship a deity that is both male and female, a mother Goddess and father God, who together created all that is, was, or will be. We respect life, cherish the free will of sentient beings, and accept the sacredness of all creation."<br> - Edain McCoy.</P>
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  93. <P>"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."<BR> - Erasmus
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  94. <P>"So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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  95. <P>"[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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  96. <P>"I stared up into his face. I searched that beauty, those dark eyes. There was no pull to them, no power, except the thick black line of his lashes, and the rich color like the sky just before darkness swallows the world when you think all is black, but there in the west is a shade of blue, dark and rich as ink. Beauty had its own power."<BR> Excerpt from The Killing Dance, by Laurell K. Hamilton.
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  97. <P>"Be known for unwavering commitment to the people and ideals you choose to live by. There are many places where compromise is expected; loyalty is not among them."<br> - From The Knightly Virtues.</p>
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  98. <P>"People talk about 'being yourself' as if that's easy--as if it isn't a tremendous leap just to come to terms with yourself, let alone being able to share any of that with someone else. That takes a lot of work, and a lot of strength, and more trust than anyone can reasonably expect."<br> by Lilias.</p>
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  99. <P>"Being courageous often means choosing the more difficult path, the personally expensive one. Be prepared to make personal sacrifices in service of the precepts and people you value. At the same time, seek wisdom to see that stupidity and courage are cousins. Take the side of truth in all matters, rather than seeking the expedient lie. Seek the truth whenever possible, but remember to temper justice with mercy, or the pure truth can bring grief."<br> - From The Knightly Virtues.</p>
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  100. <P>"It shows great weakness of character to speak that way [badly] about other people."<br> by Lilias </p>
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  101. <P>"Integrity is rock solid; it's unyielding, unmoving. It means being true to your values and remembering what is really important."<br> - (Don't know who said this, do you?)</p>
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  102. <P>"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."<br> - Unknown </p>
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  103. <P>"Hate will eat you up inside and destroy you, long before it kills you,"<br> Excerpt from Burnt Offerings, by Laurell K. Hamilton. </p>
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  104. <P>"There is no such thing as moderate Islam and extreme Islam; there is Islam, and then there are extremists,"<br> King Abdullah of Jordan.</p>
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  105. <P>"Friends are relatives you make for yourself,"<br> Eustache Deschamps.</p>
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  106. <P>"If God doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you,"<br> Author Unknown.</p>
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  107. <P>"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful,"<br> Barbara Bloom.</p>
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  108. <P>"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity,"<br> Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820.</p>
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  109. <P>"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper,"<br> Edmund Burke, The Revolution in France, 1790.</p>
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  110. <P>"The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it; between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past; between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists,"<br> William J. Clinton.</p>
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  111. <P>"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding,"<br> Ralph Waldo Emerson.</p>
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  112. <P>"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate,"<br> George McGovern.</p>
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  113. <P>"'... you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you, and not a strait waistcoat - your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me: if you flew at me as wildly as that woman did this morning, I should recieve you in an embrace, at least as fond as it would be restricted. I should not shrink from you with disgust as I did from her: in your quiet moments you should have no nurse but me; and I could hang over you with untiring tenderness, though you gave me no smile in return; and never weary of gazing into your eyes, though they had no longer a ray of recognition for me... '"<br>
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  114. (Charlotte Bronte 319-320) Mr. Fairfax Rochester to Miss Jane Eyre.</p>
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  115. <P>"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder,"<br> Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Declaration of Rights." </P>
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  116. <P>"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash,"<br> Fred Woodworth.</P>
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  117. <P>"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law,"<br> Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524.</P>
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  118. <P>"The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity,"<br> Thomas Szasz.</P>
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  119. <P>"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."<br> (adapted) - Ralph Waldo Emerson </P>
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  120. <P>"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost,"<br> G. K. Chesterton.</P>
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  121. <P>"Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality,"<br> Emily Dickinson.</P>
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  122. <P>"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them,"<br> - Ralph Waldo Emerson.</P>
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  123. <P>"Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other,"<br> Louise Erdrich.</P>
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  124. <P>"He is not a lover who does not love forever,"<br> Euripides.</P>
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  125. <P>"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime,"<br> Jean-Pierre Claris Florian.</P>
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  126. <P>"In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought,"<br> Cicero/</P>
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  127. <P>"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased,"<br> - Ralph Waldo Emerson.</P>
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  128. <P>"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them,"<br> Mark Twain.</P>
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  129. <P>"All mankind loves a lover,"<br> Ralph Waldo Emerson.</P>
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  130. <P>"I finally realized that I'm not a herd animal. I'm the animal on the fringes watching the herd, and thinking, hmm, did that one limp? Predator sometimes. Sometimes I'm the animal in the tree trying to figure out how to shove a stick in a hole and get the termites out, while the herd passes under that tree. I have friends, and they are my pack, my group, but all my close friends share that odd way of looking at the world. We are the fringe animals, not the ones in the middle following the crowd. And that's okay, it's okay to be the predator, or the monkey in the tree trying to invent a new way of doing something. [...] [L]et me leave you with this, embrace whatever animal you are. If you are happy in the herd, rock on, but if the herd just keeps trampling you underfoot, get out of the herd. Find a nice safe rock to hide behind, or a tree to climb, and stop letting everyone make you feel bad because you don't want to eat grass with everyone else."<br> - Laurell K. Hamilton</P>
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