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• Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.

  Emmett Shear

  Class, People, Lucky

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• Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

  Miranda Kerr

  Exercise, Thoughtful, Choices

  "Beauty Q&A: Miranda Kerr Spills the Details on Getting Smooth Legs, Keeping Her Hair Looking Full and Fabulous, and How to Look Sexy in Photographs". Interview with Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. June 7, 2013.

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• Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Book, Humor

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• My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

  Philip Schultz

  Inspiration, Ideas, Kind

  Source: poems.com

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• However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

  George Washington

  Party, Men, People

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mistake, Eye, Path

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sadness, Thinking, Sick

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.11, City Lights Books

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• Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

  William Faulkner

  Life, Honesty, Ashamed

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• Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Distance, Taken

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• Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.

  Craig Newmark

  People, Giving, Want

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• I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Writing, Balance

  Interview with Jenn Selby, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. May 25, 2011.

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• Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Thinking, Long

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Le Portrait de Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray: Édition bilingue: français - anglais / Bilingual Edition: French - English”, p.196, BookRix

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• The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

  Robert MacNeil

  Play, Luxury, Afternoon

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• Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Thinking, Giving

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.

  Charles Dickens

  Wind, East, Conscious

  'Bleak House' (1853) ch. 6 (Mr Jarndyce)

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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• I always think of a show like a plant - a little pruning now and then keeps it healthy, but you shouldn't pull it out and chop the roots up.

  Len Goodman

  Thinking, Roots, Healthy

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• I dont think there is anything on earth more wonderful than those wistful incomplete friendships one makes now and then in an hour's talk. You never see the people again, but the lingering sense of their presence in the world is like the glow of an unseen city at night--makes you feel the teemingness of it all.

  John Dos Passos

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  John Dos Passos (1973). “The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos”, Harvard Common Press

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• To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls.

  Gerald May

  Beautiful, Soul, Littles

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• To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

  Washington Irving

  Remembrance, Age, Titles

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.115, Penguin

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• On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Rocks, Wave, Rage

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• All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

  Ethel Lynn Beers

  War, Quiet, Beats

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• Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So every now and then I make a point of sitting down and reading a couple of them.

  Christopher Hampton

  Couple, Reading, Thinking

  "My week" by Christopher Hampton, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

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• I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Thinking, Cooking

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