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• You know in 1982, the year we came in tied for 3rd, we probably had a better team - I mean as far as talent. When we came back the following year and won it, our pitching staff was a little more experienced and it was such a thrill.

  Roger Clemens

  Team, Mean, Years

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

  James A. Michener

  Years, Orbit, Done

  James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.22, Dial Press

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment, deal with conflict, learn how to assert themselves, and have the opportunity to fail. If we’re always following our children into the arena, hushing the critics, and assuring their victory, they’ll never learn that they have the ability to dare greatly on their own.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Mean

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.240, Penguin

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• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Reflection, Water

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do.

  Martie Maguire

  People, Limits, Fans

  "Notes from the Academy of Country Music Awards" by Chris Willman, ew.com. May 24, 2006.

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• I dont like doing whats expected. Ive always done best when Ive listened to my instincts rather than following convention or doing what other people think I should do.

  Shawn Colvin

  Thinking, People, Done

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

  Lennie Tristano

  Kind, Composing, Formulas

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• I don't think it's that bad, I mean, I love people following me around and helping me do stuff.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's right but, you know, we could all benefit from following that example.

  Zach Braff

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• He that floats lazily down the stream, in pursuit of something borne along by the same current, will find himself indeed moved forward; but unless he lays his hand to the oar, and increases his speed by his own labour, must be always at the same distance from that which he is following.

  Samuel Johnson

  Distance, Hands, Effort

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1820). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Adventurer and Rasselas”, p.186

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• Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Force Fields, Soul, Feelings

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.

  Robert Henri

  Drawing, Lines, Models

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.239, Basic Books

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• All my life, following the warrior's code has taken me to places I was afraid to go. But always when I got there I was glad I made the journey.

  Frank Shamrock

  Art, Taken, Warrior

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• I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

  Julia Stiles

  College, People, Trying

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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

  Benjamin Spock

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school.

  Kevin Mitnick

  School, Path, Taught

  "An Hour with Kevin Mitnick". Interview with Vince Barnes, www.esecurityplanet.com. April 7, 2004.

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