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• The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

  Joel Stein

  Army, Order, People

  "Warriors and wusses". articles.latimes.com. January 24, 2006.

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• I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.

  Robbie Williams

  Dream, Writing, Crap

  "No pain no fame" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.

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• Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Together, May

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• Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

  People, Way, Path

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• Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Drama, Fall, Mean

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• The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

  Ozzie Newsome

  Years, Ankles, Want

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• But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him.

  Justin Martyr

  Angel, Son, Men

  Justin Martyr, Aeterna Press (2016). “Dialogue of Justin With a Jew”, p.37, Aeterna Press

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• If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Girl, Sorry

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• The beauty in the story is at one with suffering. That is also part of our upbringing - we don't think there could be beauty
  otherwise. Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is
  singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.

  Joan Chen

  Thinking, Suffering, Stories

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• If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out

  Dustin Diamond

  Rocks, Play, People

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• It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else

  Paul Reiser

  Cutting, Guy, Different

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• The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Art, Thinking

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Taking sartorial risks and not following other people is what makes you stand out.

  Zac Posen

  People, Risk, Standing Out

  "Five things I know about style: Zac Posen". Interview with Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

  David Cassidy

  Kids, Years, Play

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• When I'm in power, here's how I'm gonna put the country back on its feet. I'm going to put sterilizing agents in the following products: Sunny Delight, Mountain Dew, and Thick-Crust Pizza. Only the 'tardiest of the 'tards like the thick crust.

  Adam Carolla

  Country, Feet, Mountain

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• Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Attachment, Hatred

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• I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to instantly run at the guy with the gun, these sorts of mass shootings would be less deadly, because even a guy with a very powerful weapon can be brought down by 8-12 unarmed bodies piling on him at once.

  Megan McArdle

  Running, Powerful, Gun

  "There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre". www.thedailybeast.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Dream, Regret, Night

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.204, Harmony

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• I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.

  Teddy Thompson

  Love Life, Thinking, People

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• As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.

  Benjamin Wiker

  Real, Men, Self

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• The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

  Prince Charles

  Moving, Future, Vision

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• Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)

  Joan Bauer

  Mom, Business, Believe

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.17, Penguin

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• Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind.

  Laozi

  Mother, Sex, Heart

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• Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dark, Light, Hands

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• I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure . . .

  Shane MacGowan

  Beautiful, Pain, Taken

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