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• The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs.

  Mors Kochanski

  Night, Water, Survival

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• Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Snakes, People

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• When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.

  William O. Douglas

  Spring, Journey, Men

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• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.

  Ovid

  Doe

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• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  Namie Amuro

  Morning, Night, Games

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• I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the white person is certainly the superior one. She doesn't need food, she is one of the real saints. At the beginning I hated her, she had no personality- She lay in bed with me like a dead body And I was scared, because she was shaped just the way I was only much whiter and unbreakable and with no complaints. I couldn't sleep for a week she was so cold.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Two Of Me, Yellow

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

  Neil Peart

  Soul, Taxes Funny, Praying

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• More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'

  Neil Peart

  Prayer, Grandmother, Soul

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• My team is sabotaging me by not letting me sleep in my motorhome.

  Rory Sabbatini

  Team

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• Throat clutching from the outset! The Never List stands as a sterling example of psychological thriller writing at its best. Cancel appointments and give up on sleep. It's that kind of book.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Giving Up, Book, Writing

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• Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

  Eavan Boland

  Finals, World

  Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland (1995). “Carol Ann Duffy, Vicki Feaver, Eavan Boland”

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  Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.

  Axl Rose

  Dog, Lying, Moving

  "Axl Rose to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: I'm Not Coming and Don't Induct Me" by Erik Pedersen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• Eat, sleep and swim, that's all I can do.

  Michael Phelps

  Swim, Can Do, I Can

  "Nutrition tips: what to eat and when", www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2009.

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• Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

  Gustav Fechner

  Men, Forever, Three

  Gustav Theodor Fechner, Hugo Wernekke (1882). “Das Büchlein Vom Leben Nach Dem Tode Engl”

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• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  Walter Pater

  Attitude, Effort, Gathering

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

  Sarah Kane

  Dog, Fleas

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.225, A&C Black

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• If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.

  Pope Francis

  Stars, Men, Laughing

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• From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.

  Ian Rankin

  Children, Cities, Orange

  Ian Rankin (2010). “Dead Souls: An Inspector Rebus Novel”, p.3, Macmillan

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• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world!

  Kwame Nkrumah

  World, Today, Awakened

  Kwame Nkrumah's first independence speech, www.myjoyonline.com. March 6, 1957.

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• Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

  Assata Shakur

  Luxury, Peaceful, Mind

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• Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win.

  Usain Bolt

  Feel Better, Winning, Long

  "Usain Bolt: 'Legends have come before me, but this is my time'" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

  Christopher Darden

  Night, Law, Students

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• There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.

  Johnny Weir

  Hands, Names, Use

  "Figure Skating Rivalry Pits Athleticism Against Artistry" by Alan Schwarz, www.nytimes.com. March 18, 2008.

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• And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.

  Khalid ibn al-Walid

  Eye, Here I Am, Dying

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