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• Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.

  Twyla Tharp

  Nice, Kissing, Destiny

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• Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

  Gregory Bateson

  Doe, Causes, Logic

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• The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

  Marcel Proust

  Character, Opposites, Needs

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• Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.

  Knute Rockne

  Sports, Fall, Winning

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• I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Important, Transition

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 162), 2002.

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• If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Believe, Errors, Missing

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• Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, Denial, Hearing

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• New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.

  Robert Asprin

  Morning, Night, New Orleans

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• Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the
  contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a
  like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their
  gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Christian, Time

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.29, Gardenvisit.com

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• Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Desire, Contradiction, Contradictory

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• Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

  Thomas Boswell

  Baseball, Everyday, Speech

  Thomas Boswell (1982). “How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game”, Doubleday

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• Hackman's paradox: Groups have natural advantages: they have more resources than individuals; greater diversity of resources; more flexibility in deploying the resources; many opportunities for collective learning; and, the potential for synergy. Yet studies show that their actual performance often is subpar relative to "nominal" groups (i.e. individuals given the same task but their results are pooled.) The two most common reasons: groups are assigned work that is better done by individuals or are structured in ways that cap their full potential.

  J. Richard Hackman

  Opportunity, Two, Diversity

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• When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

  Plato

  Benefits, May, Said

  Plato, Aeterna Press (2015). “Laws”, p.481, Aeterna Press

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• I think it is typical for many men to have problems when their wives make more money then they do, or when their wives are higher on the corporate ladder than they find themselves. I think that often is an issue.

  Meryl Streep

  Men, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Evangeline Lilly Talks Ambiguity, Script Changes, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

  Edward Gibbon

  Discipline, History, Fruit

  Edward Gibbon (1802). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.26

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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

  Edgar Quinet

  Ambition, Parent, Vices

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• You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Memories, Memorable, Thinking

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'My food is really emotional'" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Men, Feet

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• Beware of the word 'friend'. It can often be used by men or the women that love them to excuse the most unfriendly behavior. Personally, when I'm picking friends, I like the ones who don't make me cry myself to sleep.

  Greg Behrendt

  Sleep, Men, Cry

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Wise, Men, Opinion

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

  William Penn

  Judging, Mistaken

  1693 Some Fruits of Solitude.

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• The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Long, Perfect, May

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1651, eBookIt.com

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• A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for it. The punishing of an influential enemy is an indiscretion; but an obscure questioner may often be crushed with good effect.

  Anthony Trollope

  Clever, Men, Giving

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1776, e-artnow

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