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• Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

  Jay McInerney

  Stars, Successful, Movie Star

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• What is success? It isn't only about winning, but playing in a certain way.

  Kevin Keegan

  Winning, Way

  Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2011.

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• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Dinner, Very Good

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

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• It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

  Guy Finley

  Want, Strange, Humans

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

  Glenn Frey

  People, Clicks

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• If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

  Paul Theroux

  Home, Thinking, People

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• I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand years old, is the Pharaonic civilization; the second, one thousand four hundred years old, is the Islamic civilization.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Islamic, Son, Years

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• We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

  Tony Hancock

  Thinking, Trying, Affected

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• If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.

  Paul Davies

  Would Be, Earth, Type

  "Life, but not as we know it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2010.

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• A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Sake, Mud, Politician

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

  Wish, President, Needs

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky.

  Tom Clancy

  Character, Thinking, Goes On

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• There is a proper measure in all things, certain limits beyond which and short of which right is not to be found. Who so cultivates the golden mean avoids the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

  Horace

  Mean, Envy, Golden

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• There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Kindness, Animal

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• We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. There is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always readily apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if the acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of the acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• Life is certainly only worthwhile as it represents struggle for worthy causes. There is no struggle in perfect security. I am quite certain that the human being could not continue to exist if he or she had perfect security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Struggle, Safety, Perfect

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• Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work in a manner that pleases You!' At the end, pray again to the Lord for forgiving any mistakes we may have committed during the task consciously or otherwise.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mistake, Blessing, Giving

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• To Amma, all are Her children. In Amma's eyes no defect of Her children is serious. But when She is considered as the guru, it is essential for the growth of the disciples that they conduct themselves according to the tradition. Amma will pardon all the mistakes of Her children, but nature has certain laws. That is what brings punishment for our sins. Children, we should be able to take any sorrow or suffering as conducive for our growth.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Mistake, Eye

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• We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.

  David Hume

  Science, Past, Imagination

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• Disease is the abnormal performance of certain functions; the abnormal activity has its causes.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Abnormal, Disease, Causes

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• You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

  Zakk Wylde

  Real, Guy, Musician

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

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• If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain of this: for all but a vanishingly brief instant near the dawn of history, the word 'ship' will mean- 'spaceship.'

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, Successful, Men

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