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• I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

  Peter Facinelli

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Retirement, Sorry

  On Jeremiah Markland, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 161, n. 3 (10 October 1782)

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• Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

  Robert Hunter

  Spiritual, Waiting, Way

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it like it is and don't engage in hypocrisy. But there is a limit to everything. And with Ukraine, our Western partners have crossed the line, playing the bear and acting irresponsibly and unprofessionally.

  Vladimir Putin

  Powerful, Independent, Ukraine

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• Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone.

  Mae West

  Money, Powerful, Comfort

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Motivational, Dream, Educational

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• I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

  Michael Moriarty

  Death, Dying, Live It Up

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• A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

  Donald Kennedy

  Work, People, Perfection

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• In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch. For those who ride it can seem like the perfect vehicle for transport. For those who race, there's no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What's around the next corner? Who cares? You're flyin'!

  Cadel Evans

  Sports, Simple, Cycling

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• I think what drives scientists is this tremendous intellectual adventure - pushing the boundaries of knowledge, walking down a track that nobody has walked down before, not knowing what's around the corner and then seeing a landscape that is so extraordinarily beautiful and complex, being part of the community that is driving the boundaries of knowledge and giving us insight into the amazing process of life.

  Suzanne Cory

  Beautiful, Motivation, Adventure

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• Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.

  Jamie Hampton

  Sports, Giving Up, Believe

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• And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Beautiful, Girl, Wall

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Expression, Blank Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

  Robert Lowell

  Father, Age, Alive

  'Middle Age' (1964)

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• This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

  Richard DeVos

  Opportunity, World, Exhilaration

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• I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

  Alex Webb

  Photography, Waiting, Secret

  "6 Photographers On What It Means To Be Close Enough". Interview with Kate Bubacz, www.buzzfeed.com.

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• Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a naturally expressive style of delivery, hones over the years in elementary-econ lecture halls. He knew, without even thinking, to address the middle rows of the hall, but to occasionally "shoot" the listeners in the back corners. He knew how to make eye contact and solicit the attention of those who were thinking of other things.

  Jane Smiley

  Teaching, Eye, Thinking

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• Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Hands, Taxation

  "Rights of Man, Part 2". Book by Thomas Paine. "Introduction", en.wikisource.org. 1792.

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• Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste after all.

  Robin Lane Fox

  Weed, Garden, Rose

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• My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking, a way of looking at the future that will be passed on and used to move forward. There's nothing short-term, no victory around the corner. I will not achieve paradise or anything like that. What I want is to fight for the common good to progress. Life slips by. The way to prolong it is for others to continue your work.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Moving, Humble

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• There is truth in little corners of our lives. There are hints of it in songs and children's eyes. It's familiar, like an ancient lullaby; What do I live for? If we've eyes to see... If we've ears to hear... To find it in our hearts and mouths the word that saves is near. Shed that shallow skin... Come and live again... Leave all you were before... To believe is to begin.

  Brooke Fraser

  Faith, Song, Children

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• Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what her painting isn't, until she finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is; you're off and running.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Thinking, White

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• A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy can never be at ease, at home. That is impossible. How can you be at ease when the enemy is waiting for you any moment? It will jump on you and destroy you. How can you be non-tense when death is waiting just around the corner and the shadow of death is always falling on you? It can happen any moment. How can you rest when death is there? How can you relax? The enemy won't allow you to relax.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Fall, Home

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• I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, World, This Generation

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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