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• The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Meaningful, Lying, Mind

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Strong, Secret Places, Sea

  The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

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• I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Men, Expression, Personality

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• I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

  Jonathan Swift

  Circles, World, Down And

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.237

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• My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.

  Gloria Estefan

  People, Fans, Congas

  Comment at Zo's Summer Groove benefit concert, Miami, July 15, 2006.

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• Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Order, Ideas

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

  Oswald Mosley

  Plato, Hero, Men

  "Rules of the Game/Beyond the Pale". Book by Nicholas Mosley, 1982.

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• I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

  Catherine Stock

  People, Small Villages, Gallery

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• I have tried very hard to find meaning in what I do, but I have found instead a vast and limitless nothingness. I tried to embrace the nothingness, but it slipped through my grasp, and now there is nothing where the nothingness was. This may sound meaningful, but it isn't.

  John S. Hall

  Meaningful, May, Sound

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.

  Kirby Larson

  Dog, Coffee, Reading

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• The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Real, Needs

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• Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Pain, Years, Giving

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• When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Hypocrite, House

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.277, University of Chicago Press

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• Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Children, Pride, Errors

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• I prefer to do absolutely nothing. I love to relax. But, if there's a beach around that's where you'll find me.

  Trina

  Beach, Relax, Ifs

  Source: www.browngirlgumbo.com

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• I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, School, Boys

  "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews". Book by Sam Weller, 2010.

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• I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Nature, Garden

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 20 (1580)

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• Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, Perfect, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God's word because it finds me where I am.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Believe, Presidential

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• I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Library

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.275, Melville House

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• Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
  Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
  You’re here now, welcome home.

  Warsan Shire

  Memories, Home, Journey

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• I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  People, Roles, Actors

  "Gabourey Sidibe Talks American Horror Story, Minotaur Kink, Season Four & Not Fitting In". Interview with Scott Neumyer, parade.com. November 13, 2013.

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• Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Doe, Universe

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• Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Kindness, Long

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• When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

  Will Rogers

  Reading, Men, Waiting

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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