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• You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Moments, Absolutely Nothing, Can Do

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Essay on the Freedom of the Will”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, News, Information

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• It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the Spirit of Christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the Spirit. It is clear, however, that since we love them by the Spirit Who is given to us by Jesus, it is Jesus Himself Who loves them in us.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Jesus, Able

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.187, Shambhala Publications

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• It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.

  Mircea Eliade

  Embarrassing Questions, Answers, Problem

  Mircea Eliade (2013). “The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion”, p.72, University of Chicago Press

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• Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to meander in my discursive thoughts. I could have cut through sooner. Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Notebook, Running, Cutting

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Rights, Offending, Law

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• The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Hurt, Lying, Truth Is

  Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  People, Lazy, Cinema

  "Cannes 2012: Abbas Kiarostami: 'The world is my workshop'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2012.

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• What made it so special were the players. They were some of the most outstanding men I have ever been around in my life. The coaches were truly professionals. I wish the 49ers nothing but the best. I am thankful to the York family for having given me the opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL. I am indebted to them for that. I am also thankful for the Faithful fans, I am just sorry I couldn't give them more.

  Mike Singletary

  Sorry, Opportunity, Player

  "49ers fire coach Mike Singletary". www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2010.

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• So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Style, Want

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• Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

  Justin Guarini

  Opportunity, People, Might

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• Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

  James Hillman

  Animal, Reality, Men

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.

  Basil W. Maturin

  Fighting, Men, Winning

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• I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Morning, Father

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• I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

  Jesse McCartney

  School, Careers, People

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• We have got to accept Big Government for the duration-for neither an offensive nor a defensive war can be waged, given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. … And if they deem Soviet power a menace to our freedom (as I happen to), they will have to support large armies and air forces, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington-even with Truman at the reins of it all.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  War, Army, Government

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• The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Liberty, Prohibition

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• For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

  Michael W. Smith

  Kings, Favors, Reason

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• I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.

  Jeremy Camp

  Broken, Alive, Treasure

  Song: Beyond Measure, Album: Beyond Measure, 2006

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• The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

  Roger Scruton

  Order, Voice, Achievement

  "A Political Philosophy". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

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• The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .

  Terry Fox

  Dollars, Marathon, Ifs

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• I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.

  Terry Fox

  Cancer, Waiting, Important

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• I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

  Glenn Hughes

  Spiritual, Blessing, Thank God

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