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• The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Garden, Eden, Negative

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• The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Heart, Adventure, Sound

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• Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

  Derek Bok

  Senior, College, Thinking

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• When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Pain, Tired

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• When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Compassion, Risk

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• Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

  Bob Barr

  Country, Government, Long

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• Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

  Brian Chesky

  Strong, Eye, Water

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• We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

  David Agus

  Technology, Medicine, Gowns

  "‘The End of Illness’ Author David Agus Answers Readers’ Questions" by Stephen J. Dubner, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Ideas, Research

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

  Max Barry

  Intelligent, Safety, Brain

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• When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Daddy, Half, Want

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• During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

  Thomas Frank

  Average, People, Hardship

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• The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

  Dennis Lehane

  People, Creative, Possibility

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• It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.

  Norbert Capek

  Life, Hero, Grateful

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• The world is entering another dark age. After 1985, the Maya will be so thick that it will be difficult to advance spiritually without a strong foundation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Dark

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• Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Beautiful, Mean

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• We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mean, Climate, Eras

  "Four years on, Katrina remains cursed by rumour, cliche, lies and racism" by Rebecca Solnit, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2009.

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• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Couple, Ideas, Territory

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• Who can take away suffering without entering it?

  Henri Nouwen

  Suffering

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.72, Image

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• I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

  Ami Ayalon

  Political, Want, Arena

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• Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Museums, Atmosphere

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• You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Song, Loneliness, Rain

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• Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Leaving, Body

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• Now imagine that you are going beneath the surface of the ocean. Below the surface all is calm, silent, and serene. As you visualize yourself going deeper and deeper into the depths of the ocean, feel that a profound peace is entering you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Profound, Depth

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• The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.

  Kallistos Ware

  Real, Communication, Two

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