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• I was taught to fighter like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali when I was growing up.

  Nonito Donaire

  Growing Up, Motivation, Sugar

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• In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Couple, Powerful, Paris

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• Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Eye, Secret

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• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

  Robert Wyatt

  Music, Numbers, Singers

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Differences, People

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• There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Grateful, Garden, Vegetables

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Israel, Agony, Holocaust

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• Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Heaven, Heroism

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.16, Adam, Stevenson

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• Genius is of no country; her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.

  Charles Churchill

  Country, Genius, Spread

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.47

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• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Real, Fire

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• Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• God is the source of life and light and joy to the universe. Like rays of light from the sun, like the streams of living water bursting from a living spring, blessings flow out from Him to all His creatures. And wherever the life of God is in the hearts of men, it will flow out to others in love and blessing.

  Ellen G. White

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

  Ellen G. White

  Writing, Ideas, Light

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.365, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I dont have to face him on Sunday.

  Jamal Lewis

  Team, Sunday, Faces

  "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know hes going to be around the ball all the time.

  Jamal Lewis

  Guy, Balls, Concerned

  "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.

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• No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

  Jon Ronson

  Hero, Home, America

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• Ray Comfort's got a fabulous film. Oh boy, this is going to cause the halls of academia to have a few conversations around the cafeteria.

  Janet Parshall

  Boys, Comfort, Academia

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• The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Social

  "Sole Mate". Interview with Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

  Lee Hyeon-seo

  Motivation, Kindness, Inspiration

  "Why I fled North Korea" By Hyeonseo Lee, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2013.

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• Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

  Nhat Hanh

  Laughter, Flower, Healing

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Sunshine, Scotland, Scottish

  'Blandings Castle and Elsewhere' (1935) 'The Custody of the Pumpkin'

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• I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Competitors

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• The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.

  Ellen G. White

  Children, Character, Light

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Christ's Object Lessons - Illustrated”, p.328, Lulu Press, Inc

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• From his style, you’d think Jason Brannon was the dark double of Ray Bradbury. He cares more about character and realism than most writers I’ve read and his plots flow like well-orchestrated music. Indeed, Brannon’s writing has a classical feel, reminiscent of the best traditional work in the genre, even when he’s going for gut-wrenching terror and torture in-extremis.

  Michael Arnzen

  Character, Writing, Dark

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