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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Tides

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• Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so rich, so blessed, so sincerely full of "enough."...I believe it is on this robust, overflowing ...contemplative pathway that one gains the joy and serenity to be generous.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Blessed, Practice

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• A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our species... We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions and trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died-in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Struggle, Acceptance, Expectations

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• The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Thinking, May

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.229, Faber & Faber

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• With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

  Kenny Rogers

  Ocean, Love You, Heart

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• I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.

  Kevin Benderman

  Art, War, Hero

  Kevin Benderman (2007). “Letters from Fort Lewis Brig: A Matter of Conscience”

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• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

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• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Love, Song, Heart

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That's why it's such a blessing I'm not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I've learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I'd give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy?

  Anne Lamott

  Inspiring, Sweet, Giving Up

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• We would turn everything into songs in those days...A lot of people think "Alice's Restaurant" was an anti-war song. It's not.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Song, War, Thinking

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• A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as the colors turn from yellow to orange and red and finally darkness?" He answered, "You are watching the sunset." The genius responded, "That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn."

  Jeremy Kagan

  Sunset, Orange, Color

  Jeremy Kagan (1998). “The Jewish Self: Recovering Spirituality in the Modern World”, p.37, Feldheim Publishers

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• Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

  E. B. White

  Death, Fashion, Men

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.91, Cornell University Press

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• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Men, Joy

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• In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Perfection, Wish

  Sir Charles Lyell (1845). “Travels in North America, in the Years 1841-2: With Geological Observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia”, p.15

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and it's rhythmic, maybe I just write a song to that.

  Nate Ruess

  Song, Writing, Simple

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• For me songwriting is very...it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that.' I sit down with the urge to write a song and then afterward it turns out being really personal. I get really overwhelmed by how I feel a lot and sometimes - I feel like my body and my brain can't deal with all the different emotions and I feel like I'm just going to explode.

  Jessica Lea Mayfield

  Song, Writing, Being Real

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• I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.

  David Massengill

  Song, Mistake, Writing

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• I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I put in alternate things...and things that might be alternates or improvements. I'll turn the page and do it again. I'll turn the page and do it again, or incorporate the improvements. Eventually, I end up with some material, and often it needs to be ordered.

  James Taylor

  Writing, Three, Needs

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• Let us never stop being vigilant about the Oys which face us. But let us never turn them into our raison d'etre. Let us also celebrate the JOYS.

  Deborah Lipstadt

  Joy, Faces, Celebrate

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• I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

  Rodney Atkins

  Anniversary, Thanksgiving, Morning

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• It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Men, Envy, Lasts

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.122, Indiana University Press

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• More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Mainstream Society, Racism

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.58, The New Press

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• Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Book, Reading

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