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• What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Laughter, Pain

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• Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

  Tony Robbins

  Past, Who I Am, Quality

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Oct 22, 2014

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• Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Events, Sometimes, Eternity

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• You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

  Dogen

  Light, Practice, Mind

  Dogen (2004). “Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• The phrase, 'You must die before you die,' is found in most of the world religions. If you don't learn how to die early, you spend the rest of your life avoiding failure. When you can free your True Self, the whole spiritual life opens up.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Self, World Religions

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• This solo piano exploration (Beyond The Sky) by Rob Schwimmer is full of passion and love...his execution and ideas flow with a beautiful sense of freedom that captures you from his first phrase to the last.

  Joe Lovano

  Beautiful, Passion, Sky

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• You never have to buy an issue of Cosmo again to be the 'Best Lover He's Ever Had.' Just remember this phrase: 'Oh my goodness, I don't know if that will fit.' Then start mentally picking out jewelry.

  Lisa Ann Walter

  Issues, Jewelry, Lovers

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• Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that 'it is so because I say it is so.' For words to take on such force, you must be deeply and completely convinced that it is identified with truth as you know it. To a person who practices honesty and keeps commitments, 'As I will, so mote it be' is not just a pretty phrase; it is a statement of fact.

  Starhawk

  Honesty, Commitment, Practice

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• Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Hate, Character

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• he technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the "physical book," a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

  Art Spiegelman

  Beautiful, Book, Technology

  "Art Spiegelman On The Future of the Book". Interview with Brian Heater, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2011.

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• Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning tghe finals at Wimbledon in 1975. . . . The player loses himself in the action, continually breaki g the false limits placed on is potential. Awareness becomes acutely heightened, while analysis, anxiety and self-conscious thought are compoletly forgotten. Enjoyment is at a peak - pure and unspoiled.

  Timothy Gallwey

  Kings, Player, Winning

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• "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Character, Boys, Honor

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• I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sex, Women

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• In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

  Benjamin Graham

  Wise, Men, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

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• Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

  H. G. Wells

  Beach, Heart, Men

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• And that phrase - 'sleeping like a baby.' Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear.

  Jenny Offill

  Baby, Lying, Sleep

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.22, Vintage

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• Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

  T. S. Eliot

  Ends, Epitaph, Quartets

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.208, Faber & Faber

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• Every sentence, every phrase, every word has to fight for its life.

  Crawford Kilian

  Fighting, Sentences

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• I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

  Jack Kent Cooke

  Winning, Rehabilitation, Will To Succeed

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• You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

  Herbie Hancock

  Change, Keys, Giving

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• Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Finding The One, Way

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• A few. . . critics are the only people I ever heard use the phrase 'imminent threat.' I didn't, the president didn't.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Iraq, People, President

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• The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Liberty, Pedestal

  Letter to General Thaddeus Kosciusko, February 26, 1810.

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• What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

  C. S. Lewis

  Powerful, Destiny, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.353, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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