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• Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

  Denzel Washington

  God, Christian, Religious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.

  Alfred Wegener

  Truth, Judging, Judgement

  Alfred Wegener (1966). “The Origin of Continents and Oceans”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• Translators are like ninjas. If you notice them, they’re no good.

  Etgar Keret

  Funny, Ninja, Translate

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Book Festival,

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• We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

  Donald Watson

  Animal, Past, Civilization

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• To go into acting is like asking for admission to an insane asylum. Anyone may apply, but only the certifiably insane are admitted.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Funny, Humorous, Insane

  Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

  Eugene Fama

  Astrology, Bad Advice, Investing

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• Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

  Louis Sullivan

  Single, Unique, People

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• I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.

  Thomas Harris

  Sheep, Understanding, Serial Killer

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• Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

  Gordon Parks

  Life, Acting, Enthusiasm

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• Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Happiness, Anniversary

  H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

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• Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence without grammar-it is incomprehensible, even inconceivable.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Order, Photographer

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• All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

  Robert Blair

  Stupid, Arrows, Guilt

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• I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Kind, Second Best, Rejects

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• Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

  Michael Johnson

  Life, Motivational, Sports

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• No man is happy but by comparison.

  Thomas Shadwell

  Happiness, Men

  Thomas Shadwell (1966). “The Virtuoso”, p.53, U of Nebraska Press

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• Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Rich, Week

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.30

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• The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Voice, Ego

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles for Getting Everything You Want”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war... Mostly the animals understand their roles, but man, by comparison, seems troubled by a message that, it is often said, he cannot quite remember or has gotten wrong... Bereft of instinct, he must search continually for meanings... Man was a reader before he became a writer, a reader of what Coleridge once called the mighty alphabet of the universe.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Animal

  "The Unexpected Universe". Book by Loren Eiseley, www.wired.com. 1964.

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• The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Differences, People, Weakness

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.), Edmund Thomas PARRIS (1836). “The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris”, p.167

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• Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

  George du Maurier

  Space, Littles, Fancy

  George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.337, tredition

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• No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Art, Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

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• Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison"

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Attachment, Looks

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• As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Character, People

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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