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• The art of living deliberately is the art of examining this vast storehouse of beliefs, dropping the out-moded ones, consciously choosing those that serve your goals, and carefully crafting new ones in greatest alignment with your desires.

  Sir Richard Bishop

  Life, Art, Goal

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• Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

  Robert Reich

  United States, Inflation, Escalators

  "Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Is Undermining Our Democracy". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 13, 2013.

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• Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

  Kathleen Casey

  Anger, Hatred, Consistency

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• Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
  That soils my land,
  And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
  Twice ten for one.
  All this, and better, Thou dost send
  Me, to this end,
  That I should render, for my part,
  A thankful heart.

  Robert Herrick

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Hands

  Robert Herrick, Alfred William Pollard (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne”

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• The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Eggs, Baskets

  "'New window on universe' excites Stephen Hawking". Interview with Eric Berger, www.chron.com. April 10, 2011.

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• I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

  Agnes de Mille

  Way, Study

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.78, New York Review of Books

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• As each of us awakens, it impacts human consciousness at a collective level. It is like dropping a tiny pebble of light into a dark pool of unconsciousness . Ripples of light!

  Leonard Jacobson

  Dark, Impact, Light

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• We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.

  Michael Herr

  Hands, Enemy, Warfare

  Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.153, Vintage

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• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  Garrison Keillor

  Fall, Ideas, People

  "Keillor To Retire From Prairie Home In 2013" by wenn.com, March 18, 2011.

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• Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

  Guy Finley

  Reality, Want, Down And

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Oct 27, 2013

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• Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

  Victoria Wood

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Years

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• The second type you have at these parades seems to be the people who want to mislabel Hitler. Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He's not Hitler.

  Dennis Miller

  People, Guy, Mustache

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• The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Hate, Lying, Night

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Weather, Air

  John Burroughs (2012). “In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs”, p.16, tredition

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• When you love what’s deeper, your response is direct. There won’t be a fear in dropping directly into the deeper.

  John de Ruiter

  Deeper, Response, Direct

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• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Letting Go, Jobs, Mistake

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• When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mean, Heart

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt (2012). “The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty”, p.206, Health Communications, Inc.

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• Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

  George Sandys

  Rose, Lips

  George Sandys (1872). “The Poetical Works”, p.349

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• I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Jobs, Drama, College

  "Intense Ornate". Amazon.co.uk interview, 1999.

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• One practice I rely on all the time is basic meditation which allows me to strip away the noise. It's like the old-fashioned dial on the radio, where you were getting static and then you found that clear, sweet spot on the dial, where the music would come through. That's what meditation is for me. Dialling out the static, the noise, the anxiety, the fear, and coming into a place that's deep and quiet. It's like dropping into a well of inspiration and wisdom.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sweet, Inspiration, Practice

  "Modern Feminism & Spirituality". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. May 8, 2012.

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• The ABCs of Death offers us a chance to work closely with a large number of visionary filmmakers to create a film with more jaw-dropping moments than a whole summer of blockbusters.

  Tim League

  Summer, Numbers, Visionaries

  "Jason Eisener, Nacho Vigalondo, Ti West, and Many More Team for Horror Anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH" by Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. May 12, 2011.

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• In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

  George Orwell

  Party, Writing, Squares

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.459, Penguin UK

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• There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Eggs

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• No clouds are in the morning sky,
  The vapors hug the stream,
  Who says that life and love can die
  In all this northern gleam?
  At every turn the maples burn,
  The quail is whistling free,
  The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs
  Are dropping for you and me.
  Ho! hillyho! heigh O!
  Hillyho!
  In the clear October morning.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Morning, Life And Love, Sky

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• There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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