All representations of a thing are inherently abstract.
("The Fault in Our Stars")
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The basic idea that God is in charge and he expects people to behave and he isn't happy when they don't - that's a very common idea.John Green
And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.
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And I can't help but feel that Whitman, for all his blustering beauty, might have been just a bit too optimistic. We can hear others, and we can travel to them without moving, and we can imagine them, and we are all connected one to the other by a crazy root system like so many leaves of grass - but the game makes me wonder whether we can really ever fully become one another.
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The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.
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The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
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Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.
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