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• People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

  David Mitchell

  Suicide, Selfish, Careers

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• Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Book, Hard Work

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• Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.116, e-artnow

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• I don't know what a guy needs to do to impress a girl these days.

  Jeff Kinney

  Girl, Guy, Needs

  Jeff Kinney (2012). “The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 7)”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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• The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

  William James

  Art, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.

  Miguel Indurain

  Race, Cycling, Suffering

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• The grandeur of the Institute never failed to impress Magnus - the way it towered high and mighty above everything else, timeless and unmoving in its Gothic disapproval of all that was modern and changeable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Way, Gothic, Modern

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?

  Karlheinz Deschner

  Atheist, Believe, Angel

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• Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

  Washington Irving

  Loneliness, Solitude, Feelings

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Humility, Pride

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• I think you can see the evolution of me as an artist, and just becoming confident and coming into my own and becoming my own person throughout each mixtape. One thing I could learn from looking back at my old mixtapes, what I could learn from my old self, is just to keep that hunger and that drive and that feeling of an underdog and also the feeling of being a fan, still lookin up to people - you just want to impress them.

  Kevin McCall

  Artist, Thinking, Self

  Source: thesource.com

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• Music that is created with the primary aim of impressing other musicians fails to connect with the vast majority of listeners.

  Carl Orr

  Musician, Majority, Failing

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• That impresses me more, inventin' electricity.

  Karl Pilkington

  Electricity

  Podcast (Series 1, Episode 4),

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• That's what is really cool about this whole new wave of makeup artistry and people on Instagram and YouTube: It's about doing it for yourself and experimenting. People don't wear makeup to impress people or because they'll be seen in public. It's more of a hobby now, just because it's fun.

  Zendaya

  Fun, Makeup, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What does impress both the unsaved and saved alike are those rare individuals who have learned to control their lifestyles and use the abundance they have to help others and spread God's Word. ... Let me propose a radical idea from God's Word: Determine God's best for your life, and be satisfied with it, even if it means moving down in lifestyle.

  Larry Burkett

  Moving, Mean, Helping Others

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• Among the many things that profoundly impress me about the Dalai Lama, quite high up on the list is his ability to say "I don't know". I've often wished that other people in prominent positions wouldn't feel the compulsion to have an answer for everything and would feel equally free to say "I don't know." It's a sign of wisdom to know that you don't know and a sign of stupidity to think that you know everything. I admire it enormously in him, and wonder why so few people in leading positions reach that stage.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Thinking, People, Stupidity

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• If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.

  John Shelby Spong

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Devotees are not impressed by the poverty or wealth in material sense in any way; what impresses is devotion.

  Radhanath Swami

  Way, Poverty, Wealth

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• To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

  Derren Brown

  People, Wish, Needs

  FaceBook post by Derren Brown from Jun 04, 2012

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• You can find the way by yourself naturally, you just need a guide to tell you to be careful, to not do this to impress people, just follow your instincts.

  Sebastien Foucan

  People, Needs, Way

  "Jump Britain". Documentary, 2005.

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• There was a lot of drama in school because, well, people have problems at home and they take it out on their friends in school. Trying to impress people, they became bullies. I hated it because I know what it's like to be picked on, and I never liked not fitting in, especially moving around so much as a kid because I was an Army brat. My dad was in the Army.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dad, Drama, Moving

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Frustration, People, Feelings

  Lysa TerKeurst (2013). “Unglued Participant's Guide: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions”, p.8, Zondervan

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• I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Ideas, People

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• We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

  Garth Brooks

  Art, Men, Giving

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