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61 " One word absent from a sentence, or misinterpreted incorrectly, can change the entire meaning of a sentence. One word can change the meaning of everything. Before you believe anything about God or anybody, ask yourself how well do you trust the transmitter, translator or interpreter. And if you have never met them, then how do you know if the knowledge you acquired is even right? One hundred and twenty-five years following every major event in history, all remaining witnesses will have died. How well do you trust the man who has stored his version of a story? And how can you put that much faith into someone you don't know? "
― , Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
62 " You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice. "
― Shannon L. Alder
63 " Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become. "
64 " It is impressive to see how people work hard to transform their lives, their bodies, and their relationships to become the best version of themselves. Release the layers that weigh you down and hold you back. Release the past and re-emerge to begin your next chapter. "
― Susan C. Young
65 " When you yearn to create positive change, stop focusing on your old stories. If you hope to transform your life from the inside out and become a new improved version of your former self, refocus on what you want rather than what you don’t "
66 " People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." - "
67 " I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. " Give me the three minute version of your life story," he said. I nailed it it one then refused to throw the question back as etiquette governs. He wanted to know where I'd been. I wanted to know who he was. "
68 " When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, before proceeding to the oppressive gorgeousness of their bridal suite. The lift was lined with looking glass, so that as he shot upwards he got an endlessly duplicated version of himself, stout and nervous, a light cloak flung over his shoulder and flowers in his hand: an infinitely long row of gentlemen carrying offerings to an unforgiving past. "
― Margaret Kennedy
69 " Even if you become the most perfect version of yourself, someone will find something negative to say. "
70 " Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself! "
71 " I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves. "
― Braden Pedersen
72 " My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere I go. "
― Ross Caligiuri
73 " We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading. "
― Molly Harper , Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs (Jane Jameson, #1)
74 " What we’ve got here is a lunatic genius ghost-in-the-computer monorail that likes riddles and goes faster than the speed of sound. Welcome to the fantasy version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. "
― Stephen King , The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower #3)
75 " You thought I didn’t notice the way you two looked at each other? I may be old but I’m not blind. I remember thatfeeling. The spark, the electricity... ”I had to interject before I got the unabridged version of Anjali Does Mumbai. "
― Nicola Marsh , Faking It (Bollywood Billionaires, #1)
76 " He studied with the guru of rock n’ roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: " Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you. "
77 " Last time I saw her, she was peeking out from one of the bookcases next to the fireplace. She's the first cat I've ever seen trying to pretend she's a condensed version of War and Peace. "
― Ellen Hart , Hallowed Murder (Jane Lawless, #1)
78 " After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives? "
― Tom Holt
79 " If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. "
80 " If my nightmare is a culture inhabited by posthumans who regard their bodies as fashion accessories rather than the ground of being, my dream is a version of the posthuman that embraces the possibilities of information technologies without being seduced by fantasies of unlimited power and disembodied immortality, that recognizes and celebrates finitude as a condition of human being, and that understands human life is embedded in a material world of great complexity, one on which we depend for our continued survival. "
― , How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics