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• Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

  Stephanie Mills

  Friendship, Persistence, Practice

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press

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• This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer ... An evening in bed with a good book. ... A good night's sleep ... As you can see, it doesn't take much to make me happy.

  Art Buchwald

  Happiness, Good Night, Book

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• Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

  Socrates

  Views, Mankind

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• The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

  Mary Oliver

  Men, Comfort, Answers

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• We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Advice, Honest, Heroines

  Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.

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• I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Sorrow, Today

  "Blair: Britain's 'sorrow' for shame of slave trade" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Advice, Opinion

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• For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

  Robert Motherwell

  Everyday, World, Way

  Siri Engberg, Joan Banach, Robert Motherwell, Walker Art Center (2003). “Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne”, p.21, Hudson Hills

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• The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

  Ben Shahn

  Moving, Journey, Self

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Many of the Kiwis appearing in powerful business circles around the world come from accounting backgrounds. Yet often people have preset ideas of how an accountant walks, talks, smells - although not in the business community. For me it is a career that offers a lot of variety and challenges and I love it.

  Philip Roth

  Powerful, Circles, Careers

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• Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of adults who emerge from this private geography.

  Carol Anshaw

  Contemporary Fiction, Voice, Seductive

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• Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Humble, Light, Self

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• No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

  Guru Nanak

  Sacred, Purity, Calamity

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• Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting.

  Ted Nugent

  Children, Cancer, Opportunity

  "America Nuge". Interview with Larry Kudlow, Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the last century a strain of Islamist thinking has developed which, like other totalitarianisms, such as Nazism and Communism, offers its followers a form of redemption through violence.

  David Cameron

  Struggle, Thinking, Roots

  David Cameron's speech to the Foreign Policy Centre thinktank, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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• My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.

  Brenda Jackson

  Strong, Challenges, Gone

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• The Coventry School Committee has been ahead of the curve in addressing the nutrition needs of our students. This committee is an extension of a process begun more than a year ago to ensure the foods we offer had high nutritional value.

  Michael Reeves

  School, Curves, Years

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• I'm excited about what I have to offer. Not only a little bit of youth, but a different perspective as a woman.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Perspective, Different, Littles

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• And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.

  Larry Winget

  Real, Keys, Helping

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• Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Pain, Men, Evil

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• Now I am not unpatriotic, and I want to do my bit, so I hereby offer my services to my President, my country and my friends to do anything, outside of serving on a commission, that I can in this great movement. But you will have to give me some idea of where "confidence" is. And just who you want it restored to.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Business, Ideas

  Will Rogers (1978). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Opportunity, Men, Endless Opportunities

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

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• Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.

  Ken Wilber

  Emotional, Two, People

  Ken Wilber (2007). “The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Doe, Please

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