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• Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Sympathy, Soul, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: Sermons”, p.314

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• Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Baby, Teacher, Blue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's not that I literally think I'm a fearie. It's just that I feel so different from most people. And this idea of a race living underground in caverns, spending all their days dancing and playing the fiddle and eating flowers and reciting poetry and sharing their dreams, that to me sounds much more real than the way people live in this world, hating and fighting and wanting and hurting.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Dream, Hurt, Hate

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• I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Believe, Feelings

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• You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50

  John Green

  Buddhist, Class, Lakes

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.54, Penguin

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• Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sunset, Spoons, Want

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• Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it, little snowflake, but know it won't make a bit of difference until after puberty. It's Newton's lost law: anything that makes you unique later will get your chocolate milk stolen and your eye blackened as a kid. Won't it, Sebastian? Oh, yes, it will, my little Mandarin Chinese-learning, Poe-reciting, high-top-wearing friend. God bless you, wherever you are.

  Sloane Crosley

  Teacher, Believe, Kids

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.60, Portobello Books

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• Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly, and you have just saved me with your mad ninja driving skills, so do not sully your heroic hottie image in my mind by further reciting your nerdy scholastic agenda. Don't tell me what you're studying, Steve, tell me what's in your soul. What haunts you?" And he was like, "Dude, you need to cut back on the caffeine.

  Christopher Moore

  Cutting, Hair, Skills

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• Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.

  Bo Burnham

  Emotional, Challenges, Brain

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• We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I see women of all ages belittling their accomplishments because they don’t want to appear boastful or overconfident. You don’t see a lot of guys out there underplaying their strengths or making light of what they’re good at, so why should women? While I get that there’s a fine line between owning your accomplishments and reciting every line of your résumé, there is absolutely no shame in being proud of what you’ve managed to achieve! Own it!

  Lea Michele

  Fun, Light, Self

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• It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.

  Wallace Stegner

  Drinking, Fighting, Bird

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.131, Penguin

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• Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Memories, Blessed, Blessing

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• I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,
  After so much reciting:
  So, if you don't object, my dear,
  We'll try a glass of bitter beer -
  I think it looks inviting.

  Lewis Carroll

  Beer, Thinking, Glasses

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales”, p.623, Race Point Pub

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• It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

  Brian Houston

  Prayer, Father, Hymns

  Brian Houston (2013). “How To Maxmise Your Life”, p.19, Hillsong Music Australia

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• When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

  Austin Mahone

  Fans, Letters, Awake

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• If the hearts are pure, they will never have enough from reciting Allah's words (the Qur'an).

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Heart, Enough, Pure

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• I was always the hero with no vices, reciting practically the same lines to the leading lady. The current crop of movie actors are less handicapped than the old ones. They are more human. The leading men of silent films were Adonises and Apollos. Today the hero can even take a poke at the leading lady. In my time a hero who hit the girl just once would have been out.

  Ramon Novarro

  Girl, Hero, Men

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• She killed Lorena in a fight?" Eric's grin grew even broader. He was as proud as if he'd heard his firstborn reciting Shakespeare.

  Charlaine Harris

  Fighting, Eric, Proud

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.140, Penguin

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• After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Book, Heart, Wine

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• He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One

  Said Nursi

  Names, Body, Majesty

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• There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

  Roberto Bolano

  Struggle, Fists

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• Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

  James Wolcott

  Wall, Eye, Personality

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• Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Prayer, Reading, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (1996). “The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation”, p.24, Beacon Press

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• All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Hymns, Singing, Life Is Like

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