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• I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

  Courteney Cox

  People, Want, Nurture

  "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.

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• Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.

  Dallas Willard

  Thoughtful, Force, Theology

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

  Bonnie Hammer

  What Matters, Perfect One, Entertainment

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• I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Life, Lucky, Care

  Guy de Maupassant (2007). “The Horla and Other Stories”, p.38, Wildside Press LLC

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• Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Use, Want

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• All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Skills, People, Taught

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.208, Shambhala Publications

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• Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Stars, Wings, Liberty

  1853 Villette, ch.6.

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• The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.

  Lord Acton

  God, Voice, Grace

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

  Philip Sidney

  Sea, Law, Ignorant

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Christ by His intercession is able to save thee beyond the horizon and largest compass of thy thoughts, even to the utmost. In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Ice, Horizon, Able

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 88), 1895.

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• The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Mother, Stars, Children

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.206

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• The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Fun, Laughter, Philosophy

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• Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.

  Simon Sinek

  Book, Creativity, Discipline

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2010

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• Grace is that thing that shows up to guide you when you've done the first two steps and you're intent on doing something larger than just yourself. That's when all of the sudden things are great.

  Tony Robbins

  Two, Grace, Done

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• If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

  Walter Lippmann

  Morning, Philosophy, Boys

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.

  John Dewey

  Responsibility, Practice, Rewards

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.264, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

  William Blake

  Angel, Writing, Hands

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.73, Delphi Classics

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Safe

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Break, Ends, Young

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

  Mark Twain

  Masters, Subtlety, Jokes

  'The Innocents Abroad' (1869) ch. 27

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• Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

  Sigmund Freud

  God, Father, Sea

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• A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Opposites, Important

  "Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information" edited by Alois Pichler and Herbert Hrachovec, (p. 140), 2008.

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• Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

  Arthur Helps

  Leadership, Party, Eye

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

  David Hume

  Errors, Matter, Facts

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

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• Do not take a blind guide.

  Aristophanes

  Blind

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