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• Some people seem to think there's no trouble just because it hasn't happened yet. If you jump out the window at the 42nd floor and you're still doing fine as you pass the 27th floor, that doesn't mean you don't have a serious problem. I would want to address the problem right now.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

  Eve Ensler

  Empowering, Inspire

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  Nat Wolff

  Communication, Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz

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

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• It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.

  Hubert Harrison

  Blessing, Class, Dubious

  Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press

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• As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

  Erica Jong

  Real, Book, World

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• The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Lying, Stupid, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.14, The Floating Press

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• I make spaces that apprehend light for our perception, and in some ways gather it, or seem to hold it...my work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing, although it is a product of my seeing.

  James Turrell

  Photography, Creativity, Light

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• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.

  Jessi Kirby

  Remember, Force

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

  Mark Twain

  Matter, May, Spirit

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• Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

  Jack Canfield

  Giving Up, Persistence, Quality

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 17, 2013

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• Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Growing Up, Firsts

  W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

  Erwin McManus

  Soul, World, Satisfied

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit”, p.143, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

  Frank Peretti

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Frank E. Peretti (2003). “No More Bullies: For Those Who Wound or Are Wounded”, p.179, Thomas Nelson

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• Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

  Frank Pittman

  Parent, Progress, Distrust

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• It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.

  Anita Diament

  Remember, Forgotten, Holy

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• Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

  Annie Proulx

  Rain, Hair, Rocks

  Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

  R. D. Laing

  Lying, Deceiving, Capacity

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• When the heart is filled with love everything seems beautiful & delightful to us.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Beautiful, Heart, Baha

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• For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

  Stockwell Day

  Stories, Canada, Journalism

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• The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

  Emily Post

  Character, Talking, Personality

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.502, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particular time where I was being bombarded with her image on TV and in magazines and her whole schtick kind of speaks to me in that way...like she's going through some sort of problem. It seems she's getting a bit desperate.

  Mike Patton

  Song, Thinking, Magazines

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• It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.

  Gene Robinson

  Spiritual, Believe, Heart

  Gene Robinson (2012). “God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage”, p.109, Vintage

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• For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

  Ken Jennings

  Kids, Reason, Devoted

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• Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Doe, Way, Speed

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.42, Bottom of the Hill

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