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• There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

  Heraclitus

  Science, Reality, Fire

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• I've seen couples that were having a hard times sexually try cannabis and have it just open their vibes until they were able to reestablish the thing that made them want to be together in the first place. They repaired their relationship with the increased communication grass brings. I've seen a fair amount of that.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Couple, Communication, Hard Times

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• Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Children, Passion, Heart

  Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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• Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain;
  enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days.
  And you say you are tired?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Running, Tired, Cities

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

  Alan Watts

  Roots, Anxiety, Strange

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• There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

  Rick Rubin

  Information

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• Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

  Alan Alda

  Encouragement, Awards, Giving

  "2005 Tony Awards Q&A: Alan Alda". Interview with Robert Diamond, www.broadwayworld.com. May 20, 2005.

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• You can’t buy that kind of empowerment. To just know that as far as you are aware, you have not got a price; that there is not an amount of money large enough to make you compromise even a tiny bit of principle that, as it turned out, would make no practical difference anyway. I’d advise everyone to do it, otherwise you’re going to end up mastered by money and that’s not a thing you want ruling your life.

  Alan Moore

  Differences, Empowerment, Principles

  "Discuss: Alan Moore turned down millions to sign off on 'before Watchmen'...is he a hero or a fool" by Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Book, Mirrors, Dust

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3132, Manonmani Publishers

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• No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

  John Ruskin

  Teacher, Money, Artist

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

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• The amount of piracy is extraordinary. People don't realize how big it is.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  People, Realizing, Bigs

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 18, 2012.

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• [on his use of tracking shots throughout his 50-year career] There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.

  Allan Dwan

  Cameras, Certain, Improvisation

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

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• I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I've ever let finances enter into the decision process.

  Joe Johnston

  Jobs, Taken, Cash Flow

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• It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth

  Woody Hayes

  Men, Effort, Doe

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• There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than the fact that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this–that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do, that you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will abound all the more to the glory of grace. That is a very good test of gospel preaching. If my preaching and presentation of the gospel of salvation does not expose it to that misunderstanding, then it is not the gospel.

  Martyn

  Mean, Men, People

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• No amount of trying to inhale one more shred of inspiration is going to make it any easier to put your heart and soul out there.

  Christine Kane

  Inspiration, Heart, Soul

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• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  Yul Vazquez

  Two, Trying, Acting

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• One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

  Stephen Daldry

  Jobs, Joy, Different

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• You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

  Norton Juster

  Flower, Years, People

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.

  W. C. Fields

  Wife, Needs, Splits

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• An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

  Kip Tindell

  Fun, Smart, Achievement

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• Financial security doesn't come from the amount of money you currently have; it comes from your ability to get more of it whenever you want ... Master the art of serving others and you will secure your financial future.

  Michael Neill

  Inspiring, Art, Want

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• What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Creativity, Character, People

  "A 'Marriage Plot' Full Of Intellectual Angst". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 11, 2011.

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• We don't have the flexibility of changing the bid amount. We can go through the whole process and someone else could beat us by giving more.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Giving, Beats, Process

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