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• Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

  Robert Ludlum

  Feel Better, Men, Coward

  Robert Ludlum (2012). “The Bourne Supremacy: Jason Bourne Book #2”, p.96, Bantam

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• Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Quality, Doomed

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• In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Order, Needs

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• Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Prayer, Thinking, Giving

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Tree, Growth, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.217, SCM Press

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• Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Pain, Real, Thinking

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• I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Say Anything, Littles, Occasions

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1042, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically, or sexually. Always there seems something ahead, the next poem or story, visible, at least, apprehensible, but unreachable. To perceive it at all is to be haunted by it; some sound, some tone, becomes a torment — the poem embodying that sound seems to exist somewhere already finished. It’s like a lighthouse, except that, as one swims towards it, it backs away.

  Louise Glück

  Art, Swim, Desire

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

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• As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.

  Sam Harris

  Creating, Design, Promise

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• There is no such thing as a perfectly happy or perfectly unhappy man in the world. One has more happiness in his life and another more unhappiness, and the same circumstance may produce widely different effects on individuals of different temperaments.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Men, Unhappy, Different

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.2362, Simon and Schuster

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• Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Order

  Pierre Bourdieu (1977). “Outline of a Theory of Practice”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

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• You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

  Laura Esquivel

  Powerful, Eye, Tunnels

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• I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

  William Golding

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.

  Gerald Durrell

  Atmosphere, Prose, Expected

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• I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Community, Mind, Important

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.140, Random House

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• The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

  Bill Mollison

  Change, Food, Garden

  "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

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• First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.

  Victor Hugo

  Firsts, Problem, Wealth

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine.

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Sunshine, Looks

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

  Jim Butcher

  Frustration, Skulls, Clubs

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• The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his thoughts are deeper, odder and never without a touch of sadness. Images and perceptions that could be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions, occupy him unduly, become more intense in the silence, become significant, become an experience, an adventure, an emotion. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Adventure, Sadness, Men

  Thomas Mann (2012). “Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog: A Dual-Language Book”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

  Nicholas Sparks

  Kindness, Self, Joy

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• So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.

  J. K. Rowling

  Bonus, Silver, Length

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• Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

  Nadeem Aslam

  People, Bravery, Citizens

  "What has Malala Yousafzai done to the Taliban?" by Kamila Shamsie, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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