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• Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Thinking

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• You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Song, Real

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• There is a community of the spirit . . .
  Open your hands if you want to be held . . .
  Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . .
  Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

  Rumi

  Moving, Thinking, Hands

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.

  Larry Clark

  Years, Ideas, Cameras

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• When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Spiritual, Men, Poor

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• Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness; a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee!

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Spring, Eye, Ice

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• We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.

  Colin Powell

  Hurt, Moving, Sacrifice

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• There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.

  John Shaw Billings

  Jobs, Islands, People

  John Shaw Billings (1965). “Selected papers”

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• For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Thinking, Winning, Class

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• So, as opposed to getting people in to read the script and read scenes with me, what I wanted to do was sit down and chat to these people and just say, "Okay. Do you share my sense of humor? Do you understand what this film is getting at? Do you know the tone that we're trying to get to?" And it was interesting.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Interesting, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• We judge people by their appearance so quickly, and we form opinions about people, compartmentalize people, and think we know who they are. But if you sit down and talk with someone for more than 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, no doubt whatsoever.

  Paul Blackthorne

  Thinking, People, Judging

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

  Lucinda Williams

  Artist, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all, and get real down and dirty.

  Paula Patton

  Real, Dirty, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• Just keep your head down and do your best.

  Charlie Munger

  Maximum Effort

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• One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes down and your capacity to be able to make a profit becomes less secure. So the trick is not necessarily to predict what the earnings are going to be but to have a clear conviction that the company isn't going bust and that your margin of safety will remain intact over time.

  Peter Cundill

  Safety, Investing, Able

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• Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

  Barbara Corcoran

  Creative, Rivals, Figures

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Aug 02, 2016

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• ...slow down and self-edit and ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything: "Does this need to be said?" "Does this need to be said by me?" "Does this need to be said by me now?"

  Craig Ferguson

  Self, Say Anything, Doe

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• Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.

  Wally Lamb

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

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• While sabotaging our reliable energy sources, Obama is also throwing as much federal money as he can at failed green energy projects, which are so ill-conceived that a reasonable person might conclude this goal is to waste money. Solyndra wasn't the only such failed enterprise, as we've shown. There were a dozen others, and despite these failures and the unconscionable waste, he has revealed nothing but a defiant determination to double down and spend more on other such projects. It's mind-blowing.

  David Limbaugh

  Determination, Goal, Mind Blowing

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• If the same family were always on the bottom, then you'd have big resentments. But if DuPonts go down and Pampered Chef up, [that's good]. That much churn makes people think the system is fairer. Buffett: We don't like churn now, but we liked it more 30-40 years ago.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Years, People

  Charlie Munger's advice on life and other at the 2003 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 3, 2003.

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• Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

  Stephen King

  Running, Book, Swings

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about music. I said, 'If you're walking down the street and you see a baby carriage, and there's a baby in the carriage; you look down and your eyes meet the eyes of the baby. The baby looks at you: That's the kind of moment you're in when you're playing.

  Charlie Haden

  Baby, Eye, Creativity

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• You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Running, Hate, Sleep

  Jonathan Tropper (2005). “Everything Changes”, p.20, Bantam

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• There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

  Dallas Roberts

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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