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• I'm most grateful for my health. It's taken me a long time to get where I am, to feel as strong as I do in my mind and in my body. It's through that that I'm able to be present in all my relationships and not get overwhelmed by what could seem like a big task, going all around the world constantly.

  Jason Mraz

  Strong, Grateful, Long

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• We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Children, School, People

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have been a lot more relaxed. I'm really happy with the result and I think Bjorn helped me take it in directions I couldn't have taken it in myself. It is a scary thing to be putting it in other people's hands, but it's really necessary sometimes.

  Sarah Blasko

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• We have what is happening as a result of the current administration in our country, which I think has taken us in a totally wrong direction, postulating totally wrong things.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Country, Thinking, Administration

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.

  Aaron Watson

  Beautiful, Dream, Kids

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• First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, America, Firsts

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• I was strong enough not to let them get the best of me, but I'm definitely one who has taken what people say to heart and let it eat away at me.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Strong, Heart, People

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• We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!

  Drew Goddard

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• All great tasks test our motivation. It's easy to court ideas over beers and change the world with napkin sketches, but like most things taken home from bars, new challenges arise the next day. It's in the morning light when work begins, and grand ideas (or barroom conquests) lose their luster. To do interesting things requires work and it's no surprise we abandon demanding passions for simpler, easier, more predictable things.

  Scott Berkun

  Morning, Motivation, Passion

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• However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be done to nationalize wars, never will it be possible to do away with the professionalism of the business; and if that cannot be done, then those who belong to it will always look upon themselves as a kind of guild, in the regulations, laws, and customs in which the "Spirit of War" finds its expression. It would be very wrong to look down upon this corporate spirit, or esprit de corps, which may and should exist more or less in every Army.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Pain, War, Army

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• When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

  Paul Mooney

  Race, Jail, Saws

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• As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you.

  Erin Heatherton

  Home, Elements, Gypsy

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• I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

  Ben Stein

  Military, Thinking, Long

  "Economist Ben Stein". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 30, 2012.

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• The most dangerous thing that can happen to us, I think, is to permit a feeling to develop that any client is a problem. I have always taken the attitude that no account is a 'problem account' but that all accounts have important problems attached to them - that you can waste more time and burn up more nervous energy by fighting a problem than by taking a positive attitude and solving it. It sure gives you a nice, warm glow when you do.

  Leo Burnett

  Attitude, Nice, Fighting

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• I don't know anything offhand that mystifies Americans more than the cotton they put in pill bottles. Why do they do it? Are you supposed to put the cotton back in once you've taken a pill out?

  Andy Rooney

  Pills, Bottles, Cotton

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise

  Donald Trump

  Guarantees, Surprise, Beats

  Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump, twitter.com. March 13, 2015.

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• A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?

  Nick Vujicic

  Military, School, Government

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• When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.

  Michael J. Fox

  Bullets

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• Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

  Kanye West

  Born, Away From You

  "Kanye West: I’m Amazing". Interview with Peter Macia, www.thefader.com. November 29, 2012.

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• Along the (writing) way accidents happen, detours get taken... But these are not "divine" accidents; I don't believe in those. I believe you have constructive accidents en route through a novel only because you have mapped a clear way. If you have confidence that you have a clear direction to take, you always have confidence to explore other ways; if they prove to be mere digressions, you'll recognize that and make the necessary revisions. The more you know about a book, the freer you can be to fool around. The less you know, the tighter you get.

  John Irving

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Thinking, Love Is, Acts Of Love

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.60, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

  Robert Hass

  Revenge, Military, Engineering

  Robert Hass (2007). “Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005”, HarperCollins

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• Democrats are channeling their frustration with America's imminent military victory in Afghanistan into hysterical opposition to reasonable national security measures at home. (Incidentally, this ought to prove once and for all what a bunch of paper tigers the Russians are. What were they doing over there for 10 years? It hasn't taken us 10 weeks.)

  Ann Coulter

  Military, Home, Frustration

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• In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to attain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result is...that having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another.

  Marquis de Custine

  Believe, Administration, Doe

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• In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.

  Peter Medawar

  Teacher, Order, Data

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