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• Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Moving, Reality, Mind

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.67, Vintage

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• I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Cereal, Vegetables, Eggs

  "Beyonce’s Bikini Body Graces The Cover Of Shape Magazine (PHOTO)" by Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Fire, Dust

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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• it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Men, Expectations

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.148, The Planet

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• We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.

  Richard Dawkins

  Light, People, Lucky

  Unweaving the Rainbow ch. 1 (1998)

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• I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling.

  Ricky Martin

  Exercise, Cycling, Class

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

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• Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.

  Alan Moore

  Block, Fall, Space

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• In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Important, Theatre, Directors

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

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• She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

  Charles J. Shields

  Skins, Approval, Negotiation

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• A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

  Jonathan Swift

  Romance, Ingredients, Degenerates

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.582

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• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• The longest time that man may live,
  The lapse of generations of his race,
  The continent entire of time itself,
  Bears not proportion to Eternity;
  Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew
  Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean!
  There is the time of man--his proper time,
  Looking at which this life is but a gust,
  A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Ocean, Men, Race

  James Sheridan Knowles (1838). “The Maid of Mariendorpt: A Play, in Five Acts”, p.107

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• Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,--spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Heart, Men

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.58

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• A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

  Ernest Renan

  Fall, Mountain, Moments

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• Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

  James Russell Lowell

  Life, Real, Dust

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.48

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• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  William C. Bryant

  Character, Evil, Office

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• Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Duty, Obliged

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• When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: 'God, I have no importance. Whatever I do or don't do, or what anybody does, is not more important than the grains of sand that I am lying on, or the coconut that I am using for my pillow.' So I really don't think in the long sense.

  Marlon Brando

  Beach, Stars, Lying

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Girlfriend, Opportunity, Guy

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• An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

  L. Frank Baum

  Fighting, Winning, Victory

  The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, January 3, 1891.

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• There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man

  George Nakashima

  Mean, Men, Tree

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• Man is a living lie--a bitter jest Upon himself--a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Lying, Men, Desert

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• Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

  Marcus Aurelius

  Substance, Gimlets, Individual

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

  William John Locke

  Men, Mustard Seed, Humans

  William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”

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