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• The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do.

  Raymond Williams

  Understanding, Crisis, Humans

  1958 Culture and Society, ch.3.

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• I did a show in New Jersey in the auditorium of a technical high school ... Technical high school, that's where dreams are narrowed down. We tell our children, "You can do anything you want." Their whole lives. "You can do anything!" But this place, we take kids - they're 15, they're young - and we tell them, "You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you."

  Louis C. K.

  Dream, Children, School

  "The Collected Wisdom of Louis C.K." by Bradford Evans, www.vulture.com. February 26, 2013.

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• So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

  Mike Mason

  Love, Spiritual, Religious

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• You'd be better served ifyou gave me a moment to regain my self-control and let me remove my boots. It's the least agentleman can do.""And you're such a gentleman.""Not with you, love. But I'm trying.

  Anne Stuart

  Love, Self, Gentleman

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• Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Peace, Dancer

  "A New Earth". Book by Eckhart Tolle, October 6, 2005.

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• Only do what only you can do.

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.15, Multnomah

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• There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

  Kim Gordon

  Sides, Youth, Projects

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• The least I can do is show Medgar I still care. And Martin.

  Charles Evers

  Care, Show Me, Shows

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• Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

  Earl Nightingale

  Skills, People, Needs

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• I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

  Bootsy Collins

  Creating, Max, Boots

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• An old Russian woman goes into Kremlin, gets an audience with Mikhail Gorbachev and says, In America anyone can go to the White House, walk up to Reagan's desk and say, 'I don't like the way you are running the country.' Gorbachev replied, You can do the same thing in the Soviet Union. You can go into the Kremlin, walk up to my desk and say 'I don't like the way Reagan is running his country.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Country, War

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• Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?

  Shania Twain

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

  Sarah Manguso

  Moving, Body, Infinite

  Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.49, Granta

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• Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

  Toby Stephens

  Cutting, Play, Theatre

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• I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.

  Laurence Sterne

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  Laurence Sterne, James P. Browne (1873). “The Works of Lawrence Sterne: In Four Volumes, with a Life of the Author, Written by Himself”, p.333

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• The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.

  Sara Davidson

  Focus, Body, Body Love

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• In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Party, Believe, Names

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• By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.

  William Cronon

  Environmental, Firsts, Ordinary

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• Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

  Eileen Collins

  Military, War, Women

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• I don't think The Undertaker and Triple H need Shawn Michaels to deliver a spectacular match or make this incredibly interesting. Those two can do that on their own. Right now, as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to be there watching it like everyone else.

  Shawn Michaels

  Thinking, Wwe, Two

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• I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Effort, Politics

  "Would Democrats embrace JFK now?" by Jeff Jacoby, www.bostonglobe.com. October 20, 2013.

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• If you persuade yourself that you can do a certain thing, provided this thing be possible, you will do it, however difficult it may be. If, on the contrary, you imagine that you cannot do the simplest thing in the world, it is impossible for you to do it, and molehills become for you unscalable mountains.

  Emile Coue

  Attitude, Mountain, World

  Émile Coué (2016). “Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion”, p.12, FV Éditions

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• If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God's way. . . . God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Running, Needs, Up To You

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• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Workout, School, Home

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• Short of spending $10,000, there is nothing you can do to your head to hide the fact that you're going bald.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Facts, Spending

  "10 Things You Don't Know About Women: Jennifer Coolidge". www.esquire.com. February 27, 2008.

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