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• I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

  Joseph Conrad

  Love, Men, Despair

  "Chance". Book by Joseph Conrad, part I, ch. 6, 1913.

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• The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Strong, Morning

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• I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

  Anna Faris

  Journey, Long, Laughing

  "Anna Faris answers film question 'What's Your Number?'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. September 28, 2011.

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• When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.

  Rob Lowe

  Crazy, People, Add

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

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• Let me take some pressure off. Your problem is not discipline. Your problem is not organization. Your problem is not that you have yet to stumble upon the perfect schedule. And your problem is not that the folks at home demand too much of your time. The problem is this: there’s not enough time to get everything done that you’re convinced—or others have convinced you—needs to get done.

  Andy Stanley

  Home, Organization, Discipline

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• For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

  Tertullian

  Men, Assuming, Knows

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.362, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Patriot

  Blog of Janusz Korwin-Mikke, April 29, 2009.

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• Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.

  Ed Seykota

  Meaningful, Winning, Risk

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• I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

  Nancy Horan

  Love, Stupid, Men

  Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.145, Ballantine Books

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  Barry Mann

  Guitar, Piano, Being Played

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?

  Maria Shriver

  Motherhood, Men, Humanity

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

  Everett Ruess

  Philosophy, Short Life, Interesting

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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• Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle - just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.

  Phil Vischer

  Mean, Brain, Way

  "Me, Myself, and Bob: A True Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables". Book by Phil Vischer, 2007.

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• It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.

  Donald A. Norman

  Motivational, Fun, People

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• I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

  Max Beckmann

  Real, Mean, Enough Already

  Max Beckmann (2013). “On My Painting - Max Beckmann”, p.8, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• Those which might have some depth are corny enough to be hokey, and almost hokey enough to be folky, since folky is already so hokey anyhow.

  Richard Meltzer

  Depth, Might, Corny

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• I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

  Mike Lowry

  Enough Time, World, Stuff

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• And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Thinking, Names, Pseudonyms

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• There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Hate, Book, People

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• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  Tabatha Coffey

  Smart, Book, College

  "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

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• Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something.

  Robert Ley

  Understanding, Sometimes

  "Fate — I believe!". Speech on November 03, 1936. "Wir alle helfen dem Führer". Book by Robert Ley, pp. 103-114, research.calvin.edu. 1937.

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• Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Smart, Adults, Reading Books

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• If a manager asks an academic consultant what to do and that consultant answers, then the consultant should be fired. No academic has the experience to know the context of a managerial problem well enough to give specific advice about a specific situation.

  James G. March

  Giving, Advice, Answers

  James G. March (2008). “Explorations in Organizations”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Thinking, Practice

  Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc

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• And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

  Robin S

  Believe, Enough Time, Excuse

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