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• Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Happiness, Peace, War

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now. There is no past, there's only future, there's only here, there's only now.

  Van Morrison

  Inspirational, Summer, Past

  Song: These Are the Days, Album: Avalon Sunset

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• I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

  Tim Curry

  Character, Play, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Distance, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1325, Delphi Classics

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• If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

  Carl Rogers

  War, Mean, Despair

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  Gary Burton

  People, Listening, Records

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• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Past, Vices, Energy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XI, 1840.

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Past, Thinking

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.178

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• Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally black portraiture with ballpoint pen ink. I'm looking for that in-between state in an individual where the overarching definition is lost. Skin as geography is the terrain I expand by emphasizing the specificity of blackness, where an individual’s subjectivity, various realities and experiences can be drawn onto the diverse topography of the epidermis. From there, the possibilities of portraying a fully-fledged person are endless.

  Toyin Odutola

  Reality, Creating, Black

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• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  Barry Hannah

  Boys, Practice, Miles

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• I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty.

  Eric Kripke

  Loyalty, Rewards, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.

  Chuck Lorre

  Insecurity, Television, Tvs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Baby don't wake me, let me take you on an endless journey. We touch and the softest kiss explodes with lust. It's real and you can't deny the heat you feel. And if I die before I wake, baby that's all right.

  Steve Vai

  Baby, Real, Kissing

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• No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

  Billy Joel

  Education, Years, Two

  Song: Two Thousand Years, Album: River of Dreams, 1993

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• Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.

  Carl Jung

  God, Men, Self

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• As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Children, Rip, Book

  "A kind of magic". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.

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• We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Jesus, Attitude, Book

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• There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Dimensions

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• You are an endless conglomeration of awareness. You're not one singular self. You're a corporation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Corporations

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• The mind is infinite. It is not relegated to the brain or to thought or to emotion. It is made up of an endless series of realities that stretch on into infinity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Brain

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• The entire structure of the human mind blocks out most of infinity. To a certain extent it's necessary because otherwise one would be insane, unless you have a very developed mind to deal with the endless permutations of infinity simultaneously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, Buddhism, Mind

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• Nature is the endless reflective pattern of existence in eternity. As I sit here watching the leaves and watching their patterns, I'm reminded of so many things I've seen in other planes and in other worlds.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Other Worlds

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• If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

  Julianna Baggott

  Motivation, Writing, Giving

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• There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Believe, Numbers, People

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