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• Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Animal, People, Accepting

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• I have not lost my fascination with death. I have not become a noticeably less intense person. I have not, nor will I ever, completely lose the longing for that something, that thing that I believe will fill an emptiness inside me. I do believe that the emptiness was made greater by the things that I did to myself.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Fascination, Emptiness

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• Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness, Achievement, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.348, Penguin

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• Such silly things, children -- and so embarrassing -- because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Silly, Animal

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• Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Artist, Creative, Obscurity

  "The real cost of free: a response" by Helienne Lindvall, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2010.

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• We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

  Michael Polanyi

  Pieces, Rewards, Accepting

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• Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Peace, Men, Thinking

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• I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Country, Worship, Curse

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “The Home and The World: Fiction, Autobiographical novel”, p.20, editionNEXT.com

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mistake, Opinion, Conclusion

  Method and Results The Progress of Science (p. 369)

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• I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

  Robert Walser

  Thinking, Want, Forget

  Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (2009). “The Tanners”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

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• The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

  Richard J. Foster

  Intelligent, Numbers, People

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

  Laurie R. King

  Hands, Flesh, Pages

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• The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Rights, Numbers

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• My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Son, Profound, Ineptitude

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.

  Primo Levi

  Happy Times, Profound, Sorrow

  Primo Levi (1984). “The periodic table”, Schocken

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• Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can’t shoot.” Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.

  Ilona Andrews

  Feet, Issues, Rifles

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• Not for a minute did I believe that this wasn’t goodbye. Still, I had loved and been loved in return, and there was nothing greater than that. It far outweighed the alienation of all the previous years. Bones thought five months was too short; I was amazed I’d been granted joy for so long. “I love you,” he moaned, or maybe I said it. I couldn’t tell the difference anymore. The lines had dissolved between us.

  Jeaniene Frost

  I Love You, Goodbye, Believe

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• Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

  Kevin Kelly

  Children, Technology, Self

  Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.215, Penguin

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• When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.

  Michael J. Fox

  Positive, Return, Given

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• As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

  Bruce Lee

  Faith, Confidence, Spiritual

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• Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

  Chinua Achebe

  Heart, Men, Okonkwo

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.9, Heinemann

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• It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

  Anne Rice

  Simple, Giving, Optimism

  Anne Rice (1983). “The Queen of the Damned”, Ballantine Books

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

  Ann Voskamp

  Grace, Shadow, Comfort

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.90, Zondervan

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• Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.

  Saint Augustine

  Law, Discipline, Curiosity

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.17, Oxford Paperbacks

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