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• CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Writing, Target

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.29, 谷月社

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• The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.

  Soko Morinaga

  Moving, Mind, Encounters

  Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself be so completely humiliated as not being able to make a move looks rather undeserved.

  Mihail Marin

  Moving, Games, Looks

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• Don't think about making money, think about making a difference, spot where others are doing it badly and do it better

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Differences, Self Improvement

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• Summer is a prodigal of joy. The grass Swarms with delighted insects as I pass, And crowds of grasshoppers at every stride Jump out all ways with happiness their guide; And from my brushing feet moths flit away In safer places to pursue their play. In crowds they start. I marvel, well I may, To see such worlds of insects in the way, And more to see each thing, however small, Sharing joy's bounty that belongs to all. And here I gather, by the world forgot, Harvests of comfort from their happy mood, Feeling God's blessing dwells in every spot And nothing lives but owes him gratitude.

  John Clare

  Summer, Gratitude, Blessing

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Long, Able

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• Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also help you appreciate what the actor is feeling, what the playwright wants you to feel. Any engineer can put a spot on someone.

  Jules Fisher

  Light, Weather, Appreciate

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Laughter, Fun

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• You must learn her. You must know the reason why she is silent. You must trace her weakest spots. You must write to her. You must remind her that you are there. You must know how long it takes for her to give up. You must be there to hold her when she is about to. You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept. And, this is how you keep her.

  Junot Diaz

  Relationship, Giving Up, Writing

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• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

  Bruce Nauman

  Running, Swim, Lap

  "“Setting a Good Corner”". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.

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• The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Cutting, Shining, Black

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1191, Manonmani Publishers

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• There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Yield, New Orleans, History

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.492

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• We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. This version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. I think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. Everybody's got some blind spot.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Morning, Thinking, Blind Spots

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• God knows best. We can trust Him with our lives as well as our eternal souls. He does not take something from us without filling that spot with something just as good--- and because it's from Him, even much better

  Janette Oke

  Inspirational, Trust, God

  Janette Oke (1999). “A Searching Heart”, p.233, Bethany House

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• A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Christian, Responsibility, Creator God

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who are irrational and can barely cope. If you want to know how stupid you’re perceived to be by the people up there, count the unsolicited junk mail you receive. If you get a lot, you’re perceived to be alluringly stupid.

  Jon Ronson

  Stupid, People, Junk

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• Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!

  Alane Ferguson

  Reading, Adventure, Voice

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• I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

  Greta Gerwig

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I really admire artists who take the time to recharge their batteries and not continually call on it. I think you can spot tired and jaded artists quite quickly.

  Rupert Friend

  Tired, Artist, Thinking

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

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• I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.

  Kandyse McClure

  Cute, Cat, Thinking

  "Talking About Werewolves with Kandyse McClure of Hemlock Grove". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. April 19, 2013.

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• What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

  Jimmy Buffett

  Eye, Pops

  Song: Take It Back

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• And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Nature, Forests, Hills

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2009). “The Ancient Mariner and Selected Poems (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.56, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

  Joni Mitchell

  Nature, Ddt, Apples

  Song: Big Yellow Taxi

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• How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

  Samuel Woodworth

  Nature, Heart, Views

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