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• Guard your good mood.

  Meryl Streep

  Good Mood, Mood

  "Grad Speakers Mix Politics With Pomp", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2003.

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• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Life, Wisdom, Past

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Case of Identity"

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Christian, Book

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• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Being Alone, Ideas

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• Let us then, be up and doing.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 9 (1838)

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• I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Political, Storm

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

  James A. Garfield

  Law, Coercion, Behinds

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• His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ignorance, Literature, Study

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.15, Wordsworth Editions

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• The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.

  Julian Baggini

  Technology, Ideas, Mind

  "I think, therefore iPod" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2008.

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• In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

  Albert Camus

  Brother, Stars, Night

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiration, Winning, Making Money

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• I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Men, Giving

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• One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Anecdotes, Needs

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• The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Are you free?

  Andrew W. Ford

  Blood, Risk, Dying

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• How do you solve a mystery? How do you write a book? The techniques for starting both are surprisingly similar. Find an intriguing question and, pen and dagger tucked under cloak, search for clues.

  Claire Cameron

  Book, Writing, Technique

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• Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.

  Sara Shepard

  Thinking, Interesting, Secret

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• I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.

  Deborah Harkness

  Writing, Years, People

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• The biggest day in the history of Kentucky's program.

  John Calipari

  Kentucky, Program

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• Before I read the script [The Following], I saw the schedule, and imagine how confusing that was. I thought it was intriguing. I'm an actress. Even if it's, by proxy, all about me, I'm all for it. It was all about me, but I didn't have to show up, so it was great.

  Natalie Zea

  Confusing, Saws, Actresses

  Source: collider.com

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• For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been.

  Virginia Woolf

  Light, Torches, Olivia

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.109

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• I have to talk like this! It`s my job

  Dmitri Mendeleev

  Jobs

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• I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

  Emma Watson

  Sexy, Thinking, Way

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• At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial-and any question about sex is that-one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Doe, Opinion

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own (Annotated)”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for a woman to lay the least stress on any grievance; to plead even with justice any cause; in any way to speak consciously as a woman. And fatal is no figure of speech; for anything written with that conscious bias is doomed to death. It ceases to be fertilized.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stress, Simple, Men

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.136

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