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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Mary Stewart

Men, Soldier, Navy

Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

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Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, Atheism, Hated

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.401, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

Umair Haque

Country, Business, Yesterday

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The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

Robert Crandall

Christian, Games, Lions

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Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it

Mary Martin

Thinking, Giving, Might

mary martin (1976). “my heart belongs”

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The things closest to the heart of God are often the most offensive to the Pharisees.

Craig Groeschel

Heart, Pharisees, Offensive

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... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

Bob Black

Order, Giving, Police

Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

Minnie Maddern Fiske

Friendship, Knowing Nothing, Anxiety

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward. I tend to scribble down notes, lyrics or just random thoughts on pieces of paper, backs of cigarette packs, sometimes on my shirt cuff. Rock n’ roll is closest thing I’ve got to a spiritual power. It’s been the higher voice in my life and it’s never let me down.

John Waite

Spiritual, Song, Moving

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The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food — Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend — the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.

Langdon Winner

Country, Civilization, Cities

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A lot of people that I've had around me have been my closest friends since junior high, back when we were exchanging each other's clothes, staying at each other's houses. That was before I had anything.

Paul Pierce

Clothes, People, House

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There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Bultmann

Heart, Mystery, Problem

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Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies.

Robert Greene

Enemy, Worst, Realms

Twitter post from Apr 19, 2015

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The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement.

Brendan Brazier

Perfection, Improvement, Constant

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This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it...Plus, being married and monogamous, it's the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble for it...The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

Jon Bon Jovi

Sex, Years, Rocks

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Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Tom Clancy

Hockey, Ice, Unions

Tom Clancy (1989). “The Cardinal of the Kremlin”, p.175, Penguin

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Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
Love them no matter what.

Nikki Sixx

Hurt, Would Be, Matter

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I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.

Victor Pelevin

Beautiful, World, Usual

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In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Andre Agassi

Men, Islands, Games

Andre Agassi (2015). “The Whirl”, p.11, Vintage

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I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

Kato Kaelin

Media, Enemy, Pals

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Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent.

Melvin Belli

Friendship, Believe, Individuality

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When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

Raoul Dufy

Confused, Heart, Littles

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Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

Michelle Malkin

Real, Kissing, Player

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It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Empathy, May, Difficult

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Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.

Ernst Haeckel

Law, Connections, Branches

ernst haeckel “the riddle of the universe”

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