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• As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Real, Attachment

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not

  Elizabeth Fry

  Giving Up, Believe, Heart

  Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.86

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• Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

  Kate Mosse

  Regret, Jealous, I Regret

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• My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Men, Goodness, Instinct

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• I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Moving, Boys, Hands

  Song: Sitting In Limbo

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• What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.

  Albert Einstein

  Special, Acting, Body

  Letter to the Michelson Commemorative Meeting of the Cleveland Physics Society, 1952.

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• Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

  Benjamin F. Wade

  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

  Saul Bellow

  Forgiving, Lord, Stations

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

  Mike Huckabee

  Uncles, Waiting, Parent

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• Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me to pairing, test-first, incremental design, continuous integration and so on because they support the values.

  Kent Beck

  Honesty, Responsibility, Practice

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• I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Numbers, People

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• When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Horizon, Retreat, Illusion

  Maria Edgeworth (1833). “Tales and Novels”, p.320

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• The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

  Paul McCartney

  Doors, Long, Disappear

  Song: The Long And Winding Road

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• I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions at play today. And it's this concept which leads me to bottled water, and its multibillion dollar industry.

  Brandon Boyd

  Believe, Heart, Play

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• Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.

  Maya Angelou

  Want, Telling The Truth, Let Me

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2013

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• I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Yield, Light

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• I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

  Dolly Parton

  Support, Waiting, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Sound, Logic

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• I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

  Grandma Moses

  Want, Paint

  William C. Ketchum, Moses (Grandma) (1996). “Grandma Moses: An American Original”, Smithmark Publishers

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• I have felt darkness lead me by the hand
  Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.

  Allen Tate

  Hands, Darkness, Singing

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• I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.

  Jason Mraz

  Jobs, One Day At A Time, Steps

  Interview with Lexi Shapiro, theywillrockyou.com. April 23, 2008.

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• The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Children, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 52), 1895.

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• Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

  Donna Shalala

  Leadership, Moving, Thinking

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• I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

  Francisco Costa

  Art, Challenges, Next

  "Five minutes with Calvin Klein's Francisco Costa". Vogue Australia Interview, vogue.com.au. September 24, 2012.

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• I enjoy the research element. There are so many stories from the past that interest me, that I want to learn more about, just as an interested person. And if I'm going to learn, if I'm going to research, it's probably going to lead me to writing a novel.

  John Boyne

  Writing, Past, Elements

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