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• Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Ocean, Order, Erosion

  Pope Benedict XVI's address during The XXIII World Youth Day in Sydney Harbour, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 17, 2008.

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• The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

  Bobby Baldwin

  Loss, Winning, Player

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks of the haste, and still stronger marks of the inexperience, under which they were framed.

  James Madison

  Strong, Organization, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.228

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• The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.

  Lewis Thomas

  Rest Of Life, Language, Humans

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

  Laurence Sterne

  Love, Cutting, Knowing

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.493, eBookIt.com

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• Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

  Pope John Paul II

  Education, Business, Men

  Pope John Paul II (1981). “Human Work”

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• It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Time, Mean, Mind

  "Introduction to the Devout Life". Book by Saint Francis de Sales, Pt. 3, ch. 39, 1609.

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• The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Anniversary, Winning, Games

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• On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  Tom Lantos

  Anniversary, Loss, July

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• To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

  Mark Sanchez

  Anniversary, New York, Children

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• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Learning, Eye

  'The Vanity of Human Wishes' (1749) l. 157

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• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Walking Away, Wife

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• I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA

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• Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.

  Lindsey Kelk

  Thinking, Zuckerberg, Devil

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• Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

  Marjorie Garber

  Unique, Thinking, Names

  Marjorie Garber (2009). “Academic Instincts”, p.144, Princeton University Press

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• I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

  Kenny Wormald

  Boston, Careers, Guy

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• I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Thinking, And Love, Lessons

  "Shiloh Fernandez" by John Ortved, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  War, Cutting, Class

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Book, People

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 11, 2017

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• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

  Noah Lukeman

  Expression, Simplicity, Clarity

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  Jackson Browne

  Reading, Grew Up, Reading Shakespeare

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• Mark my words, my rap career [is] on the rise.

  Nicole Richie

  Rap, Careers

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2012

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• I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that Narnia engenders in the hearts of those who read the books to the screen in ‘The Silver Chair.’ I am very much looking forward to diving once more into Narnia, this time with Mark Gordon and his team.

  Douglas Gresham

  Team, Book, Heart

  "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Silver Chair Movie In Development" By Jim Vejvoda, www.ign.com. October 1, 2013.

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