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• From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

  Donald Kagan

  Reading, Boys, Choices

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

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• I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

  Nina Bawden

  Differences, Interesting, Feelings

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.

  Michelle Cruz

  Peaceful, Mind, Events

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• When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

  Dylan Moran

  Children, Simple, Laughing

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Having found in many books different methods of going to GOD, and divers practices of the spiritual life, I thought this would serve rather to puzzle me than facilitate what I sought after, which was nothing but how to become wholly GOD'S. This made me resolve to give the all for the all; so after having given myself wholly to GOD, that He might take away my sin, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world.

  Brother Lawrence

  Spiritual, Book, Practice

  "The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life".

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• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  Nate Berkus

  Home, Unique, Special You

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• Why is it important for you to know the real God? Because your identity is found in Him.

  Karen Wheaton

  Real, Important, Identity

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• In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.

  Clarence Clemons

  Spiritual, Answers, Able

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• Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Intellectual, Satisfaction, Accepting

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Scum Of The Earth, People, Moral

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• I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Generosity, Support

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• When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  War, Mean, Swings

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Tony Cottee once played in all four divisions in one season. Cottee started 2000-01 at Leicester City, where he made a couple of Premiership appearances as a sub before being released to Norwich, in what was then Division One. In November the chance to be player-manager of Barnet came up and soon Cottee was playing in Division Three, but alas it did not work out. By March he was again looking for work and found it, with two sub appearances, at Millwall in Division Two.

  Phil Cornwell

  Soccer, Football, Couple

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• I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

  Jane Siberry

  Understanding, Sides, Study

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• Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.

  Ian Axel

  Play, Giving, Important

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• When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!

  Jennifer Ellison

  Moon, Upset, Married

  "Jennifer Ellison says she wants to have a natural birth" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. December 1, 2009.

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• God is found by those,
  With kind hearts.

  Bulleh Shah

  Heart, Kind, Kind Heart

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• The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.

  Craig Groeschel

  Christian, Atheist, Christian Atheist

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  Walter Murch

  Reflection, Years, Wind

  Michael Ondaatje, Walter Murch (2002). “The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film”, p.9, A&C Black

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• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. [...] At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you're not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you 'should' be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.

  Walter Murch

  Reflection, Thinking, Years

  "The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film". Book by Michael Ondaatje, December 3, 2012.

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• I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.

  Young Jean Lee

  Thinking, Theatre, Way

  "Real Gone Gir". Interview with Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. November 3, 2014.

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• What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

  Louis Mackey

  Real, People, Waking

  "Waking Life". www.imdb.com. January 23, 2001.

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• I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Writing, Funny Things, People

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• In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Race, Cities, India

  "The Transition to a Global Society". Book by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, 1991.

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• I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Squirrels, Crow

  Henry David Thoreau, Carl Bode (1967). “The best of Thoreau's journals”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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