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• Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

  Barney Kessel

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• Jnana is given neither from outside nor from another person. It can be realised by each and everyone in his own Heart. The jnana Guru of everyone is only the Supreme Self that is always revealing its own truth in every Heart through the being-conciousness 'I am, I am.' The granting of true knowledge by him is initiation into jnana. The grace of the Guru is only that Self-awareness that is one's own true nature. It is the inner conciousness by which he is unceasingly revealing his existence. This divine upadesa is always going on naturally in everyone.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Grace

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• The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man.

  Alice Bailey

  Lying, Home, School

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• I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.

  Shadia Drury

  Wise, Book, Being Real

  "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  Ed O'Brien

  Long, Stuff, Computer

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• I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Horse, Jockeys, Firsts

  "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.

  Ajay Devgan

  Two, Acting, Actors

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• At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

  Julia Ormond

  People, Scary, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.

  Henri de Lubac

  Being Real, Age, Classic

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• The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one.

  Stanley Wolpert

  Struggle, Long, Vision

  "Who was Mahatma Gandhi and why are William and Kate paying tribute to him on their visit to India?" by Kirstie McCrum, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2016.

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• Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very offended about the quality of film criticism.

  Wim Wenders

  Real, Past, Criticism

  "Wim Wenders talks with WSWS: 'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• It is truly strange how long it takes to get to know oneself. I am now sixty two years old, yet just one moment ago I realised that I absolutely love lightly toasted bread. Simultaneously, I also realised that I loathe bread when it is heavily toasted. For almost sixty years, and quite unconsciously, I have been experiencing inner joy or total despair at my relationship with grilled bread.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Years, Two Year Olds, Long

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• I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

  Jamie Sives

  Years, Office, One Day

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• Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

  Douglas Mawson

  Adventure, Space, Harness

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• I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

  Ramona Koval

  Education, Reading, Learning

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• The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.

  Stefan Molyneux

  High Standards, Use, Blame

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• It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dog, Artist, Tragedy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.824, GENERAL PRESS

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• My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Touring, Enjoy

  "The grunge girl grows up" by Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Perfect, Tasks

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

  Jenny Eclair

  Years, Berlin, England

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• When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Girl, Kissing, Depth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have become a bit obsessed with eyebrows, I used to never have any and then I realised big eyebrows are good and now I'm an eyebrow fiend. Everyone comes to me to get their eyebrows done.

  Jessie J

  Eyebrows, Done, Obsessed

  "EXCLUSIVE! Jessie J: 'If I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up'". Interview with Rebecca Cox, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. July 5, 2013.

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• Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs.

  Eric Hernandez

  Song, Simple, Listening

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• I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!

  Martha Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Way

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• Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

  Nick Frost

  Succeed, Said, Knows

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