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• Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough knowledge of the Bible in order to spot bogus religious teachings. How grounded are you in the Scriptures? How deep are your theological roots? How capable are you of detecting false teachings?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

  Charles R. Swindoll (1920). “Conquering Through Conflict”, W Publishing Group

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• God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Accomplishment, Christ, Pleasure

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• Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Benefits, Problem

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.62, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I’ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, I’m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like that’s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, it’s over. You feel like you can’t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.

  A. J. Green

  Humble, Successful, Guy

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• You're grounded!!!! You can't go out and prowl the L.A. streets. You've got to do something more edifying, emboldening and altogether more groovy. You gots to stay home tonite and read a good book!!!!!!!!!!

  James Ellroy

  Book, Home, Groovy

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• Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

  Carolyn Custis James

  Character, Joy, Unchanging

  Carolyn Custis James (2002). “When Life and Beliefs Collide: How Knowing God Makes a Difference”, p.146, Zondervan

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• Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

  Daniel Goleman

  Giving, Challenges, Everyday

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• When you are grounded in the present - feeling your feelings, listening to your body, tasting your food, and expressing your ideas - you do not build up toxicity. You digest your experience as you go.

  Debbie Ford

  Ideas, Feelings, Listening

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• The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.

  Michael Shannon

  Routine, Metronomes, Stage

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• I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

  Leslie Mann

  Comedy, Broads, Enjoy

  "Leslie Mann, In Sickness And In Health". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 21, 2012.

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• Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. Men really respond to it. I love blonde hair but it really does something different to you. I feel more grounded when I have dark hair, and I feel more ethereal when I have light hair. It's unexplainable. I also feel more Italian when my hair is dark.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dark, Italian, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

  Christina Applegate

  Mom, Clothes, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.

  Molly Ringwald

  Appreciation, Dad, Passion

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• I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

  Josh Duhamel

  Thinking, Careers, Done

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Rights, Self

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• I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

  Cedric the Entertainer

  Thinking, Stuff, Has Beens

  "Cedric The Entertainer Talks 'The Soul Man'". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

  Auguste Comte

  Knowledge, Science, Sound

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• The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Ideas, Historical

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, Ideas, Dubious

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.265, Knopf

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• The resurrection of Jesus is rooted in history, grounded in scripture and confirmed in experience.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Jesus, Scripture

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2016

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• For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Real, Differences, Evil

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• I have, I think, eight mentors. It's crazy, but I need them. They are all really important to me. They keep me grounded and advise me.

  Jamie Bell

  Crazy, Thinking, Eight

  "Bell De Jour" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2005.

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• Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

  Jane Addams

  Philosophy, Boys, Race

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.

  Elaine Equi

  Relief, Welcome, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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