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• The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

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• America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

  Will Rogers

  Education, Ignorance, America

  "Will Rogers Speaks". Over 1000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...,

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• There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Life, Attitude, Fall

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• Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Thinking, Ifs

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• Select candidates by integrity of character, not promises.

  Jim DeMint

  Integrity, Character, Promise

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• When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

  Confucius

  Teacher, I Can

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• But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.

  Primo Levi

  Sex, Men, Two

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• The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Simple, Names

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• In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often, cannot afford), rather than the one we prefer. We are only as free as our purchasing power permits. Even many wealthy people today select a residence mainly to impress others with their status. Lacking a true sense of self worth, many live to impress others.

  Jacque Fresco

  Self Worth, Car, People

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• It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Husband, Wife, Quality

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• As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Supportive

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• When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Fate, Needs, Tongue

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.42, Editorial MAXTOR

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• This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

  Cormac McCarthy

  War, Games, Unity

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspiring, Believe, People

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• On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Beautiful, Wish, Together

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

  Henry Adams

  Differences, Influence, Hundred

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 17 (1907)

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• Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Horse, Thinking, Race

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• A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

  Louis L'Amour

  Home, Mind, Chance

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.97, Bantam

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• When I was a kid there were a very select few channels - programmes had to have more of a large appeal and they just didn't offer very much. Now you have a situation where the television world has expanded and there's hundreds of channels.

  Bryan Cranston

  Kids, Television, World

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• I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

  Russell Crowe

  Insecure, Giving, Demand

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• I think every person who is single should have a dog. I think the government should step in and intervene: If you're not married or coupled up, whether you've been dumped or divorced or widowed or whatever, they should require you to proceed immediately to the pound nearest you and select an animal companion.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Dog, Animal, Thinking

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are born into a disordered world, into a family we did not choose, into circumstances we would have had somewhat improved, and we are even called by a name we did not select. (40)

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Names, World, Absurd

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Roots, People, Worry

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• Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

  Lynne Truss

  Simple, Skills, Icons

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• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  Hilary Mantel

  People, Shapes, Simplify

  "Bring Up the Bodies : A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel". Interview with Ilana Teitelbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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