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• I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Adversity, Fire

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Thinking, Next, Perfectionist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word of God are all useless if we fail to put what we learn into practice.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Reading, Practice

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• We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]

  William Melmoth

  Gratitude, Should, Wells

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• Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Grace, Understanding

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• Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

  Eli Pariser

  Mirrors, Watches, Way

  "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You". Book by Eli Pariser, 2011.

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• It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Voice, People

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

  Josh Gates

  Home, Growth, Doe

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• And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

  Glen Hansard

  Might, Reason, Mood

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Much testing, much reflecting, much living must intervene before we can say, 'My soul is my own.

  Madonna Kolbenschlag

  Soul, Testing, My Own

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• The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawud’s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangir’s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout – some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.

  Michael Muhammad Knight

  Girl, Crazy, Silly

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• Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.

  Bernard Arnault

  New York, Creativity, Organization

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• I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and revealing them to an audience in a way that amuses is what I find fun.

  Jim Broadbent

  Fun, People, Culture

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• Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

  Sara Gilbert

  Teenager, Character, Thinking

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• What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.

  Joseph M. Marshall III

  Wise, Acceptance, Journey

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• Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Love Is, Mirrors

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, Artist, Thinking

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• You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any way or educate or suggest other ways of being, it can't do so by simply reflecting what's considered to be realistic. I'm not a realist in that way.

  Lynne Tillman

  Writing, Space, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.

  Agatha Christie

  Reflection, Things In Life, Remember

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• If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reflection, Different, Looks

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.242, Stanford University Press

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• If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only

  Louis Sachar

  Baby, Strong, Angel

  Louis Sachar (2010). “Holes”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Light, Color, Waiting

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years.
  Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.

  Pete Conrad

  Fun, Years, Time Flies

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• There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faces, Prophecy, Countenance

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.343

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• The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.

  Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

  Warrior, Moon, Empty Mind

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