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• If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Addiction, House, Smoking

  Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to refer to his happy illustration — does not now stand alone. Instead of one, we see many footprints, each in turn in advance of the print behind it, and on a higher level.

  Hugh Miller

  Science, Illustration, Feet

  "The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed".

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• Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
  Yet that scaffold sways the Future, and, behind the dim unknown,
  Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Forever, Shadow

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• ...culture is useless unless it is constantly challenged by counter culture. People create culture; culture creates people. It is a two-way street. When people hide behind a culture, you know that's a dead culture.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Counter Culture, Two, People

  Muhammad Yunus (2010). “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs”, p.66, PublicAffairs

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• Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American". Book by Irving Dilliard, 1941.

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• The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.

  Umberto Eco

  Art, Doors, Romance

  Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.383, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  "Samuel L. Jackson: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Each is but a means to an end; in the perfected end we find the intent, and there God — not in the laws themselves, except as his means of revealing himself. For that same reason, human science cannot discover God. For human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry-web of God's science, it works with its back to him, and is always leaving him — his intent.

  George MacDonald

  Leaving, Evolution, Revelations

  "Discovering the character of God".

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• The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

  Eric Jensen

  Art, Healing, Emotional

  Eric Jensen (2001). “Arts with the Brain in Mind”, p.2, ASCD

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• I salute you! There is nothing I can give you which you have not; but there is much, that, while I cannot give you, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today. Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant. Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet, within our reach, is joy. Take Joy.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Fun, Lying, Heart

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• The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

  Forest Whitaker

  Daughter, Dad, Stupid

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• I dribbled by the hour with my left hand when I was young. I didn't have full control, but I got so I could move the ball back and forth from one hand to the other without breaking the cadence of my dribble. I wasn't dribbling behind my back or setting up any trick stuff, but I was laying the groundwork for it.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Moving, Nba

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• When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power of law behind the idea that these are people who cannot change and therefore we must protect them from other people who disagree with them.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Law, Ideas

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• If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you're in front of them.

  Billy Graham

  Encouragement, People, Kicking

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• You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it?
  How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?
  The answer lies in the return.
  You will not come back to the 'same old thing.
  What you return to has changed because you have changed.
  Your perceptions will be altered.
  You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind.
  The river has been flowing while you were gone.
  Now it does not look like the same river.

  Stephen Foster

  Change, Encouragement, Lying

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• It's torturous what my siblings put me through. I can take any Olympic final, I can fight in a world championship and fall behind and win in sudden death, but when it comes to my siblings, it's out of my control. There's not much I can do.

  Steven Lopez

  Sibling, Fall, Fighting

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• A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever.

  Kim Ok-gyun

  Drama, Forever, Scar

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• Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst Of the frailties and shortcomings of the person.

  Andras Angyal

  Love, Real, Heart

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• For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.

  Jay Baer

  Media, Accountability, Marketing

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• The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Art, Halloween

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase drug industry profits by $139 billion over the next eight years. Glaxo-SmithKline's second-quarter net income already jumped 14 percent, and other leading drug companies also have benefited.

  Louise Slaughter

  Independent, Eight, Years

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• Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going to accelerate your times and lead you into the life of victory He has for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Godly, Over You

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• Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

  Al-Shafi‘i

  Islamic, Accompany You, Earth

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