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• I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Christian, Religious, Honesty

  Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”

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• The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have things be different from how they are. We see it most clearly when our personal situation is painful and we want very much for it to change. It's the wanting very much that hurts so badly, the feeling of "I need this desperately," that paralyzes the mind. The "I" who wants so much feels isolated. Alone.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Hurt, Pain, Feelings

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Remember You, Remembers You

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.116, Del Rey

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• The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Eye, Views, Window

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1958). “Language and Life”

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• My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

  Carol Leifer

  Falling In Love, Gay, Love Is

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• Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Father, Acceptance

  "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win". Book by Carol Leifer, www.today.com. March 2009.

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• Egoic consciousness is the one we all normally operate with, until we are told there is something else! Every culture teaches egoic consciousness in different ways. At that level it is all about me, my preferences, my choices, my needs, my desires and me and my group as the central reference point.

  Richard Rohr

  Choices, Desire, Groups

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• You express different energies at different times in your life.

  Marisa Tomei

  Energy, Different Times

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• I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

  Antonio Banderas

  Done

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• I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mean, Giving, Pay

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• Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Believe, Taken

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• In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Issues, Movement, Spirit

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• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Able, Language, Form

  "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Memories, Groups, Speech

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• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Historical, Principles, Examination

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• I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

  Ben Vereen

  Teacher, New York, Moving

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• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

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• A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

  Coventry Patmore

  Doe, Saint, Motive

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• I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Philosophical, Political

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• It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

  Eva Hoffman

  Ideas, Veins, May

  Eva Hoffman (2014). “Exit into History: A Journey through the New Eastern Europe”, p.202, Faber & Faber

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• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  Barry Commoner

  Teenager, Way, Certain

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• Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back.

  Elvis Costello

  Song, Rocks, Done

  "Interview about The Delivery Man". Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.

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• I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.

  Pearl Cleage

  School, Responsibility, Thinking

  "Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage". Q and A with Author Pearl Cleage, abcnews.go.com.

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• Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position.

  Louise Erdrich

  Death, Heart, Feels

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.197, Odyssey Editions

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• Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Oxygen, Years

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”

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