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• At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

  Victor Cruz

  People, The End Of The Day, Want

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• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  Victor Cruz

  Athlete, Past, Normal

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• Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.

  Herman Kahn

  Believe, People, Sometimes

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.17, Lexington Books

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• It's not like suddenly, when you become a working actor all your friends are in the same situation. I have friends who are still handing out flyers for their one-woman show and trying to make ends meet.

  Nia Vardalos

  Trying, Actors, Flyers

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

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• For me, being a starter doesn't matter. Of course, I'd like to be in at the end of the game, to be a big part of the team, and to play as many minutes as I can play. But starting and coming off the bench are two different challenges.

  Sue Wicks

  Team, Games, Play

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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• A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life. A saber might be stopped by a shield. A bullet might be dodged by a stroke of luck. But you can't dodge a word. If one is flung at you, it will hit its mark unerringly. No Garritt, there's nothing in the world more dangerous than talk.

  Galen Beckett

  Men, Luck, World

  Galen Beckett (2008). “The Magicians and Mrs. Quent”, p.76, Bantam

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• The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Rope, Palms

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• History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Retrospect, Knows, Written

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• Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

  Roy H. Williams

  Mistake, Genius, Trails

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• The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

  Anatole Broyard

  Epic, Stories, Being Human

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• You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Book, Wind, Gone

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• I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Fun, Believe, Adventure

  J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway

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• The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.

  Hakim Bey

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Farewell, Tears

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• Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

  Justina Chen

  Broken, Accepting What Is, Complaining

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• Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Decision, Tangible

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• Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day with your Beloved, in a happiness and rapture that can never end.

  Teresa of Avila

  Dream, Struggle, One Day

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• Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountains which sustain life, not the top.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Unique, Reality

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  People, Baghdad, East

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• Where no guiding ideals are left to point the way, the scale of values disappears and with it the meaning of our deeds and sufferings, and at the end can lie only negation and despair. Religion is therefore the foundation of ethics, and ethics the presupposition of life.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Lying, Suffering, Despair

  Werner Heisenberg (1990). “Across the frontiers”, Ox Bow Pr

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• Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

  Alain de Botton

  Running, Animal, Space

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• You just be honest about who you are, and if you dont end up with any friends, then good for you.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Honest

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• I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Trying, Literature

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• To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

  Robert Motherwell

  Beautiful, Canvas, Empty

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