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• I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Next Day, Care

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• I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Style, Steps

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• The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.

  Barbara Holland

  Life, Children, Airports

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• Large carbon and resource savings arising from efficiency and renewable energy programmes will be completely cancelled out by the added resource needs of even small population increases. Action is urgently required on both fronts to protect our life on earth

  Phil Harding

  Energy, Population, Needs

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• If you can see your path clearly in front of you, it's probably someone else's.

  Joseph Campbell

  Path, Ifs

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• So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Media, White, America

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• Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

  Warren Buffett

  Family And Friends, Would Be, Pages

  "Warren Buffett's Super Simple Advice For Becoming Successful" by Peter Gasca, www.businessinsider.com. August 08, 2014.

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• We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

  Forest Whitaker

  Eye, Needs

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• The church is not a dormitory for sleepers, it is an institution for workers; it is not a rest camp, it is a front line trench.

  Billy Sunday

  Church, Lines, Dormitory

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• Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

  Albert Speer

  Improvement, Workplace, Factories

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• Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I knew. The terror hurt good and I nursed it and played it like a loose tooth.

  Katherine Dunn

  Hurt, Feet, Ideas

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• One Chief Astronaut used to make a point of phoning the front desk at the clinic where applicants are sent for medical testing, to find out which ones treated the staff well-and which ones stood out in a bad way. The nurses and clinic staff have seen a whole lot of astronauts over the years, and they know what the wrong stuff looks like. A person with a superiority complex might unwittingly, right there in the waiting room, quash his or her chances of ever going to space.

  Chris Hadfield

  Space, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• So when the world knocks at your front door,
  clutch the knob and open on up,
  running forward into its widespread greeting arms
  with your hands before you,
  fingertips trembling though they may be.

  Anis Mojgani

  Running, Doors, Hands

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• People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Failing

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• If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you're laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

  Miranda Kerr

  Clouds, Relax, Watches

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• I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Trying, Plant, Embrace

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• Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

  D. A. Carson

  Running, Boys, Doors

  D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.37, Baker Academic

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• All that you see out in front of you is how you feel inside your head.

  Alan Watts

  How You Feel, Feels

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• Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Winning, Challenges

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• Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, "Son, it looks like you don't have a home anymore." The little boy promptly answered, "Oh, yes, we have a home. We just don't have a house to put it in."

  Barbara Johnson

  Home, Son, Boys

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• Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

  Pablo Picasso

  Reality, Hands, Scent

  Pablo Picasso, Anatoli Podoksik (1996). “Pablo Picasso: the creative eye (from 1881 to 1914)”, Parkstone Press

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• If a crisis has come to you on any front, surrender your will to Jesus absolutely and irrevocably.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Surrender, Crisis

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.1, Discovery House

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• I LOVE my job. Having a front row seat to watch lives change because of others generosity is amazing! So thankful.

  Pete Wilson

  Jobs, Life Changing, Generosity

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• I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.

  W. S. Merwin

  Going Away, Trying, Littles

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• I want to say thank you to everybody at Hendrick Motorsports for their hard work...Obviousl y, the front row is very special, big thank you to Chevrolet and my awesome sponsor Lowe's Home Improvement !

  Jimmie Johnson

  Hard Work, Home, Special

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