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• We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

  Charlie Munger

  What Matters, Discipline, Foolish

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• It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

  William Butler Yeats

  Crazy, Women, Meat

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 30 (1919)

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• You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right now. Every time we perceive ourselves, others, life, the world and God in a certain way, we are deepening the habits that will take over in old age. Every time I act on the insights that I am getting now I am deciding my future and choosing to be a kindly or cynical old man. Our yesterdays lie heavily upon our todays and our todays will lie heavily upon our tomorrows.

  John Powell

  Lying, Men, Yesterday

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• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  Livy

  Ties, Toil, Pleasure

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 4,

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• There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.

  Roger Penrose

  Running, Thinking, Views

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• There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.

  Sylvia Plath

  Satisfaction, Clinicals, Seeing

  "The Journals of Sylvia Plath".

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• I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.

  Debby Ryan

  Class, Names, Acting

  "Debby Ryan On ‘Secret Of The Wings,’ ‘JESSIE,’ And Her Most Daring Decision". Interview with Hannah Orenstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Texas, East

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• I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

  Debby Ryan

  Growing Up, Stupid, Immature

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• Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

  Monte Irvin

  Heart, Winning, Overcoming

  "Monte Irvin: Nice Guys Finish First". Book by Monte Irvin, www.washingtonpost.com. 1996.

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• Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

  Stephen Leacock

  Music, Suicide, Kind

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.143, The Floating Press

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• Some people are just born wack, you can't teach certain wackness.

  The Weeknd

  People, Born, Teach

  Twitter post from Apr 13, 2012

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• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  Hans Blix

  Tools, Interviews, Circumstances

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• The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry. I watch certain politicians get asked questions that need answers and may just prance around with a big laugh and smile on my face. Politicians have an arrogance. I just do not understand. I've seen more constructive debate since high school.

  Paolo Nutini

  School, Laughing, Arrogance

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• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  Fiona Shaw

  Running, Want, Exhausted

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

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• Growing up, the way that I looked was very important to me. I was always trying to impress people, and when I grew my beard there was a certain freedom, a separation, getting past this the way I looked, identify myself as a spiritual seeker.

  Matisyahu

  Spiritual, Growing Up, Past

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• I do see that the world that we live in is collapsing to a certain extent, and civilization as we know it is caving in on itself. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

  "Madonna to Anderson Cooper: Shedding a new ray of light on art and life". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.

  Virginia Axline

  Children, Opportunity, Self

  Virginia Mae Axline, (2013). “Play Therapy - The Inner Dynamics of Childhood”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Judging, Want

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.69, Random House

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• In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Two, Religion, Use

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Numbers are the most certain things we have.

  Andy Rooney

  Numbers, Mathematics

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• Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Talent, Shameless, Form

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• When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Mean, Thinking, Done

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• I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

  James Dobson

  Marriage, Couple, Elude

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• If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

  George Orwell

  Character, Class, Ordinary

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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