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• For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Believe, Order, Opposites

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• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Sunshine, Darkness

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Memories, Stress

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• Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

  Anthony de Mello

  Happiness, Sorry, Fear

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Grief, Moon

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 10

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• ‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

  John Stuart Mill

  Education, Successful, Government

  John Stuart Mill (1978). “On Liberty”, Penguin Books

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• Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

  Ewan McGregor

  Party, Elephants, Singing

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

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• You & I are here but the wind is everywhere. Cast no words upon it you don’t wish followed back to you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Wind, Wish

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 11, 2013

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• Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations?

  Pascal Mercier

  People, Imagination, Shadow

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Dark, Winning, Fire

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• Take the time to make some sense for what you wanna say, And cast your words away upon the waves. Sail them home with acquiesce on a ship of hope today, And as they land upon the shore, Tell them not to fear no more. I'm not saying right is wrong, It's up to us to make the best of all the things that come our way. Cos' everything that's been has past, The answers in the looking glass. There's four and twenty million doors On life's endless corridor, So say it loud and sing it proud today.

  Noel Gallagher

  Home, Past, Glasses

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.

  J. K. Rowling

  Daughter, Dad, Thinking

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• People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Stupid, Intelligent, Thinking

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• A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Lying, Doe, Avalon

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.660, Ballantine Books

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• As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone who cast a jaundiced eye or who made a comment about either him, his mother, or his sister. He’d told himself that he didn’t need anyone’s love or caring. And so he had learned to live like a feral animal, always ready to strike out when someone tried to touch him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.648, Macmillan

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• In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Memories, Shadow

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Hands, Female, Tongue

  1678 Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning,'The Prologue'.

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• Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

  Alexandre Dumas

  Father, Sea, Useless

  Alexandre Dumas (1846). “The Count of Monte-Cristo”, p.317

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• I can still see her face -- The sorrow in her eyes, her voice, as she condemns me. I didn't know it was possible to feel such shame. To feel so sick at heart. I'm lost inside, my soul -- all that I thought I was, and am, and ever will be -- shattered, cast to the winds. Compared to this, death is a mercy.

  Chris Claremont

  Eye, Heart, Wind

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• Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Discipline, Needs

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• I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?” “I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.” She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Brother, Wish, Debauchery

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• ‎"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it ...is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Certainly don't go to that being who is bent on your destruction of your happiness. Face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Illumination

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• i know what it's like to wake up thinking you will be able to cast the people who play the starring roles in your life, only to realize that you have to watch it from the audience.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Play, People

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Nature

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