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1 " Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads. "
― Christopher Paolini , Eragon, Eldest & Brisingr (Inheritance, #1-3)
2 " I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back. "
― Karen Joy Fowler , The Jane Austen Book Club
3 " I ask to be made beautiful like the trees are beautiful, each growing according to a unique plan. Lop off a limb and and the tree will accommodate it's loss, still growing and still beautiful. It is my hope to be able to flourish in a similar fashion, taking on the shape and dimensions that is intended for me. "
― Julia Cameron , The Writing Diet: Write Yourself Right-Size
4 " Wielding your words cavalierly can inadvertently lop off someone’s ego. "
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5 " My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is far greater. I would sooner a hundred times over appear to be inconsistent with myself than be inconsistent with the word of God. I never thought it to be any very great crime to seem to be inconsistent with myself; for who am I that I should everlastingly be consistent? But I do think it a great crime to be so inconsistent with the word of God that I should want to lop away a bough or even a twig from so much as a single tree of the forest of Scripture. God forbid that I should cut or shape, even in the least degree, any divine expression. "
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon
