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• I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Fall, Pride

  "MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest".

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• Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Fall, Snow

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Add, Legs

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.191, A&C Black

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• I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mom, Mother, Father

  "NBC's Guthrie Chats With Sotomayor About Her Love Life in Softball Interview". Interview with Savannah Guthrie, www.newsbusters.org. January 15, 2013.

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• It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

  Jordin Sparks

  Real, Sound, Doe

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• I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Musician, Would Be, Lifetime

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• Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Mother, Father, Self

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• I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Kids, Insecure, Gone

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• When I saw 'Hercules,' my mind just exploded because I was extremely thin; I was insecure. I literally ran out of the theatre and started lifting things, anything I could think of - milk crates. I'm still lifting things. It changed my life.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Insecure, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Brian D. Johnson, www.macleans.ca. March 6, 2012.

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• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  Barbra Streisand

  Creeps, Wanted, Audience

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• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Common Sense, Religion

  'Thoughts on Religion' (1765)

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• If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Queens, Would Be, Queen Elizabeth

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• When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hypocrisy, Parent, Adults

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  Barry White

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Corruption

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

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• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Play, Comedy

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

  Lucinda Williams

  Age, Peter, Mary

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• I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

  Ricky Williams

  Compassion, Use, Ability

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• I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'

  Steven Wright

  Boston, Years, Phoenix

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• From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eye, Blow, Necks

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.566, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: 'The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!' For one moment more Pippin's thought hovered. "Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!' And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Eye, Gay, Eagles

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• Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mother, Art, Children

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• The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

  Conan O'Brien

  School, Weekend, Two

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