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• The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

  Dennis Murphy

  Horse, Mistake, Thinking

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• It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

  Robbie Loomis

  Sports, Winning, Reality

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• No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

  Robert Creeley

  Reality, Matter, Tone

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• Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

  Saul Bass

  Interesting, Design, Creative

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• There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.

  Coretta Scott King

  Men, Historical, Needs

  "My Life with Martin Luther King Jr." (Revised Edition) by Coretta Scott King, 1969/1993.

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• We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.

  Wayne Huizenga

  Taken, Mean, Competition

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• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Opposites, Wonder, Said

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• It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives that can help change our lives, improve our lives, and bring the Spirit into our lives. But we sometimes take them for granted. How grateful we should be for the blessings that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings into our hearts and souls. I would remind all of you that if we're ever going to show gratitude properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath

  David B. Haight

  Gratitude, Jesus, Father

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• When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

  Hilary Mantel

  Real, Believe, Writing

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Finale Recap: Out Of The Frying Pan, Into The Fire" by Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I think the most important thing is [to] restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism in state government. Bring to the job a desire to really make things happen and help people and give confidence back to the public.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

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• I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

  Young Jeezy

  Thinking, Skills, People

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• The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

  John McGahern

  Journey, Calm, Life Is

  John McGahern (2009). “Memoir”, p.107, Faber & Faber

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• There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Purpose, Life Is, Make Things Happen

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• A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

  Issey Miyake

  Art, Body, Figures

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• When you think positive, good things happen.

  Matt Kemp

  Thinking, Think Positive, Good Things

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• But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most wretched ridiculous things happen to make one laugh in spite of oneself.

  Georgette Heyer

  Real, Epic, Laughing

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• At certain junctures in the course of existence, unique moments occur when everyone and everything, even the most distant stars, combine to bring about something that could not have happened before and will never happen again. Few people know how to take advantage of these critical moments, unfortunately, and they often pass unnoticed. When someone does recognize them, however, great things happen in the world.

  Michael Ende

  Stars, Unique, People

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• The secret of successfully giving yourself away lies not so much in calculated actions as in cultivating friendly, warm-hearted impulses. You have to train yourself to obey giving impulses on the instant -- before they get a chance to cool. When you give impulsively, something happens inside of you that makes you glow, sometimes for hours.

  David Dunn

  Lying, Giving, Secret

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• When the spirit of people is strong focused and vibrant, wonderful things happen.

  Harrison Owen

  Strong, People, Spirit

  Harrison Owen (2000). “The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform”, p.1, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.

  Freeman Dyson

  Memories, Information, Matter

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• Things happen in NFL games. I don't try to dwell on it. I try to say, It happened. Let's move onto the next one.

  Devin Hester

  Moving, Nfl Games, Trying

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• Trust in my wisdom. I do not make mistakes. Love my uncertainty for it is not a mistake. It is my intent and will. Remember - nothing happens without my will. Be still. Do not ask to understand. Do not want to understand.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mistake, Want, Remember

  Sanathana Sarathi (Magazine), August 1984.

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• If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

  Erin Kelly

  Clothes, Half, Way

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• I just tried to make things happen, whether it was (my) shots or getting shots for other people.

  Mike Bibby

  People, Make Things Happen, Shots

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• Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you.  You can say a lot of things.  You can write books about him, damning him.  So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Lying, Book, Writing

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