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  1. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.
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  2. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.
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  3. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    Do you know anything about frogs?""Frogs?""Yes, various biological studies have shown that if a frog is placed in a container along with water from its own pond, it will remain there, utterly still, while the water is slowly heated up. The frog doesn't react to the gradual increase in temperature, to the changes in its environment, and when the water reaches the boiling point, the frog dies, fat and happy.On the other hand, if a frog is thrown into a container full of already boiling water it will jump straight out again, scalded, but alive!"Olivia doesn't quite see what this has to do with the destruction of the world. Igor goes on:"I was like that boiled frog. I didn't notice the changes. I thought everything was fine, that the bad things would just go away, that it was just a matter of time. I was ready to die because I lost the most important thing in my life, but instead of reacting, I sat there bobbing apathetically about in water that was getting hotter by the minute.
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  4. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    A seagull was flying over a beach, when it saw a mouse. It flew down and asked the mouse: "Where are your wings?" Each animal speaks its own language, and so the mouse didn't under stand the question, but stared at the two strange, large things attached to the other creature's body. "It must have some illness," thought the mouse. The seagull noticed the mouse staring at its wings and thought: "Poor thing. It must have been attacked by monsters that left it deaf and took away its wings." Feeling sorry for the mouse, the seagull picked it up in its beak and took it for a ride in the skies. "It's probably homesick," the seagull thought while they were flying. Then, very carefully, it deposited the mouse once more on the ground. For some months afterward, the mouse was sunk in gloom; it had known the heights and seen a vast and beautiful world. However, in time, it grew accustomed to being just a mouse again and came to believe that the miracle that had occurred in its life was nothing but a dream.
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  5. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    Try the impossible. Don't start low down because that's where you are now. Climb those rungs quickly before they take the ladder away. If you're afraid, say a prayer, but carry on.
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  6. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    They know what the "perfumes" are going to say because they always say the same thing, but they pretend to believe them anyway. {a}"I could change your life." {b}"A lot of women would like to be in your shoes." {c}"You're young now, but what will become of you in a few years' time? You need to think about making a longer-term investment." {d}"I'm married, but my wife . . ." {This opening line can have various endings: ". . . is ill," ". . . has threatened to commit suicide if I leave her," etc.} {e}"You're a princess and deserve to be treated like one. I didn't know it until now, but I've been waiting for you. I don't believe in coincidences and I really think we ought to give this relationship a chance.
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  7. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard
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  8. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    الرجل ذو الكرامة لا يقاس بعدد الاصدقاء من حوله وهو في عز نجاحه .. بل بقدرته على عدم نسيان أولئك الذين ساعدوه عندما كانت حاجته اكبر
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  9. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    Transformations always occur during moments of crisis.
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  10. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    Love your enemy. But don't forget he is not your friend.
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  11. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.
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  12. Paulo Coelho _ The Winner Stands Alone

    We must love because we are loved by God. We must be conscious of death if we are to have a proper understanding of life. We must struggle in order to grow, but without falling into the trap of the power we gain through that struggle, because we know that power is worthless. Finally, we must accept that our eternal soul is, at this moment, caught in the web of time with all its opportunities and its limitations.
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