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• Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

  Elmore Leonard

  Annoying, Prologue, Introduction

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• If the whole church goes off into deception, that will in no way excuse us for not following Christ.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Following Christ, Deception, Church

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• The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

  E. O. Wilson

  Real, Technology, Humanity

  "An Intellectual Entente". harvardmagazine.com. September 10, 2009.

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• Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

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• There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Way

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• They're going to clear cut your best thoughts for the sake of profit unless you learn to resist, because the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked!

  Utah Phillips

  Rivers, Path, Resistance

  "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere". Album by Utah Phillips and Ani DiFranco, October 15, 1996.

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• As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

  Rachel Roy

  Trends

  "Estelle and Rachel Roy Talk About Their New Jewelry Line at Macy's". Seventeen interview, www.seventeen.com. April 5, 2010.

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• The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

  Paulo Freire

  Doe, Behavior, Guidelines

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
  about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
  still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
  horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
  into bed.

  William Styron

  Morning, Sleep, Fog

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

  Nicky Hilton

  Dream, Kids, Names

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• I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Player, Top 10, Bigs

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• Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich.

  Jim Rogers

  Way, Rich, Get Rich

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• Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

  Lewis Gordon

  Decision, Tides, Instinct

  "Achieving The Impossible". Book by Lewis Gordon Pugh, 2010.

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• The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

  Boris Vian

  White, Black, Elements

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• One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.

  Aleister Crowley

  Doubt, Elements, Next

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Justice, Design, Doe

  Emanuel Swedenborg, Glen Michael Cooper, Stuart Shotwell (2006). “True Christianity, Containing a Comprehensive Theology of the New Church that was Predicted by the Lord in Daniel 7:13-14 and Revelation 21:1, 2: sections 1-462”

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• I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

  William Stafford

  Rivers, Topics, Kind

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• The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Needs, Following The Crowd

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Do we believe the reward found in Jesus is worth the risk of following Him?

  David Platt

  Jesus, Believe, Risk

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.153, Multnomah

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• Carving is a source of joy to the artist. . . . To attack the raw material, gradually to extract a shape out of it following one's own desire, or, sometimes, the inspiration of the material itself: this gives the sculptor great joy.

  Aristide Maillol

  Inspiration, Artist, Giving

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• Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.

  Debby Ryan

  Water, Storm, Digging

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• I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions

  Anita Hill

  Regret, Saying No, Suggestions

  Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 11 October 1991, Washington, D.C.

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• Angry contradiction of the patriarch is not creativity; it's delinquency calling for attention. Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative.

  Robert McKee

  Creativity, Differences, Achievement

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• I am driven to observe of the ultra-Darwinists the following features as symptomatic. First, to my eyes, is their almost unbelievable self-assurance, their breezy self-confidence.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Eye, Self Confidence, Firsts

  Simon Conway Morris (2003). “Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe”, p.314, Cambridge University Press

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• The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

  Ferruccio Busoni

  Artist, Law, Creative

  Claude Debussy, Ferruccio Busoni, Charles Ives (1962). “Three Classics in the Aesthetic of Music: Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater”

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