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• I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Hate, Thinking, Circles

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• I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.

  Alain Prost

  Stupid, Thinking, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of the kingdom prior to his millennial reign.... This generation will face trials and troubles that will exceed those of their pioneer forebears. Our generation has had periods of some respite from the foe. The future generation will have little or none....This is a chosen generation.... I believe today's [Church youth] will lead the youth of the world through the most trying time in history.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Believe, Our Generation, Heaven

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• That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.134, Graphic Arts Books

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• If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Special, Critics

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Song, Nature, Congratulations

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

  Ezra Pound

  Imagination, Brain, Suspense

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.1208, Delphi Classics

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• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  Caleb Cushing

  People, Constitution, Made

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• My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.

  Ward Churchill

  Journalist, Comment

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• I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

  David James Elliott

  Laid Back

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm reserved, so I've always needed to find a way of opening up. Jazz helped me do that.

  Renee Fleming

  Opening Up, Way, Jazz

  "Renée Fleming: Diva goes to the dark side" by Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2010.

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• My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Careers, Wife, Lovely

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• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Adventure

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• I don't believe that the American dream should be reserved for those who are born into the elite or somehow have been given an advantage over others. My growing-up experience is probably the most important thing that guides my priorities and my work today.

  Ken Salazar

  Dream, Growing Up, Believe

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• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

  Alicia Vikander

  Thinking, Interviews, Film

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• I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.

  Lauren Kate

  Running, Thinking, Choices

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.160, Delacorte Press

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• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  Carl David Anderson

  Home, Heart, Special

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• How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Sunshine, Night

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• Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

  Susan Cain

  People, Achievement, Humanity

  "Introverts Run the World - Quietly". edition.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

  Rachel Carson

  Sky, Sea, Amazing Life

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

  Henry Clay

  Mass, Mankind, My Sympathy

  Calvin Colton, Henry Clay (1857). “The Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Henry Clay: In Six Volumes”, p.210

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• Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

  Carey Mulligan

  Thinking, Agree, Originals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything.

  Eva Green

  Self, Forget Everything, Naked

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• A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us

  Jim Rohn

  Miracle, Pieces, Process

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