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• Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

  Leonard Michaels

  Littles, Clarity, Mystery

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• Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her sexuality into a fluid androgyny, or, as roles disappear, the phenomenon of transsexuality will disappear and that energy will be transformed into new modes of sexual identity and behavior.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Mean, Community, Identity

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• I think they find it - they find me quite confusing, because - they know the music, but they don't know anything about me because I keep a very private lifestyle so they end up making up stories as such. But I don't really concern myself too much about them.

  Enya

  Thinking, Confusing, Stories

  KSCA Interview with Merilee Kelly, January 18, 1996.

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• Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
  What is there to be or do?
  What's become of me or you?
  Are we kind or are we true?
  Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.

  William Empson

  Boys, Two, Waiting

  1940 'Just a Smack at Auden'.

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• The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

  Pat Barker

  Jobs, Fighting, Mind

  Pat Barker (1993). “Regeneration”, p.27, Penguin

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• The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words by human agents to form attitudes or to induce actions in other human agents.

  Kenneth Burke

  Attitude, Men, Political

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• I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

  Clifford Geertz

  Writing, Done, Finished

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• Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

  Tim Huelskamp

  Opportunity, America, Today

  "Al Sharpton’s Heated Clash With Tim Huelskamp", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2012.

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• To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

  Stephen Covey

  Mean, Understanding, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Helping Others, Boss, Levels

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• The whole end of speech is to be understood.

  Confucius

  Chinese, Speech, Understood

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come from your insecurity in working with others. It can be the need to draw attention to yourself in the public arena. It can be a feeling that others are a threat to your own territory. These are all negative manifestations of ego, and if you are not alert to them, you get diverted and your work becomes diffused. Ego in these cases makes people insensitive to how they work with others and it ends up interfering with the real goal of any group efforts.

  Bill Walsh

  Real, Team, Organization

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• At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class.

  Eric Jay Beck

  Lying, Climbing, Class

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• You can't answer a kid's question. A kid never accepts any answer. A kid never says, 'Oh, thanks. I get it.'... They just keep coming with more questions - why, why, why? - until you don't even know who the fk you are anymore at the end of the conversation. It's an insane deconstruction.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Fatherhood, Insane

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• Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

  John Scofield

  Music, Thinking, Sound

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• In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.

  Heber J. Grant

  Gratitude, Blessing, Temptation

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• Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see.

  John D. MacDonald

  Long, Fool, Sun

  "A Flash of Green". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1962.

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• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

  Ross Macdonald

  Memories, Moving, Sea

  Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.

  Lois Lowry

  Book, Blue, Events

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• A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate millions... Of all targets New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Bridges

  "Here Is New York". Book by E. B. White, 1948.

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• In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Two, People

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.

  Michael Hutchence

  War, Knowing, Scary

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

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• As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Long, Feel Good, Easy

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

  Andrew Solomon

  Years, Forever, Important

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• In the Book of Acts faith was for each believer a beginning, not an end; it was a journey, not a bed in which to lie while waiting for the day of our Lord's triumph. Believing was not a once-done act; it was more than an act, it was an attitude of heart and mind which inspired and enabled the believer to take up his cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever He went.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Attitude, Lying, Believe

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