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• If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

  J.K. Simmons

  Two, Long, Parent

  J.K. Simmons' Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2015.

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• You may blame yourself for not being strong enough to appreciate some unhappy people in spite of their negative emotional offerings toward you. Well, we would never suggest that you be able to look at something you do not want and feel good about it. Instead, look for things that cause you to feel appreciation when you find them-and then the Law Of Attraction will bring you more things like those.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Strong, Emotional

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “Manifest Your Desires: 365 Ways to Make Your Dreams a Reality”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

  Ernest Renan

  Blessed, Blind, Knows

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• One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Communication, Loss

  Charles Horton Cooley (1912). “Human Nature and the Social Order”

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• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  Beatrice Webb

  Strong, Fear, Patient

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• People think that if everyone knows the power of the LOA there won't be enough to go around .. This is a lie that's been ingrained in us and makes so many greedy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Lying, Thinking, Law Of Attraction

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• The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

  Merle Shain

  Life, Strong, Lying

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• The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Long, Paper

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.236, Grove Press

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• Bishop on "At the Fishhouses"At the last minute, after I'd had a chance to do a little research in Cape Breton, I foundI'd said codfish scales once when it should have been herring scales. I hope theycorrected it all right.2Quite a few lines of "At the Fishhouses" came to me in a dream, and the scene- whichwas real enough, I'd recently been there-but the old man and the conversation, etc.,were all in a later dream

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Real, Men

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• If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

  Gordon Moore

  Trying, Hard, Ifs

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• Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Firsts, Honest

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• But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Life, Awful, Hollowness

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• Sometimes you have to trust people enough to let them succeed and love them enough to let them fail.

  Orson Scott Card

  Life, People, And Love

  Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston (2014). “Earth Awakens”, p.348, Macmillan

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• They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly lie after another, epicycles upon epicycles, and the fools care not. It is not enough, I tell you, to ask how the cosmos is designed. We must ask why.

  Robin Wasserman

  Life, Lying, Pages

  Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.325, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The real things to know is that folks will stand to lose more than they will to win. That’s the most important percentage there is. I mean, if they lose, they’re willin’ to lose everything. If they win, they’re usually satisfied to win enough to pay for dinner and a show. The best gamblers know that.

  Puggy Pearson

  Real, Mean, Winning

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• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Brain, Mind

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

  Cary Fowler

  People, Diversity, Mind

  "Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

  Hernando Cortes

  Wall, Details, Able

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• INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj. Unable to exist if something else exists. Two things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for one of them, but not enough for both - as Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Two, Poetry

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.104, 谷月社

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• Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

  Joy Williams

  Grateful, Writing, Shadow

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• I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

  Andy Rooney

  Letters, Soap, Rich

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• The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.

  Walter Lippmann

  Reality, Men, Feelings

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Wisdom, Impact, Elements

  Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Source of Miracles: Seven Powerful Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Lord's Prayer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• I
  believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up
  her dress.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

  Roy H. Williams

  Worried, Economy, Pricing

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