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• Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Mother, Distance, Ems

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2012). “A White Heron and Other Stories”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Self Confidence, Race

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• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

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• We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.

  Jewel

  I Like You, Believe, Insomnia

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• You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

  Stella Adler

  Soul, Actors, Want

  "Biography/ Mini Bio". www.imdb.com.

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• I read where they are going to limit debate in the Senate. It used to be that a man could talk all day, but now, as soon as he tells all he knows, he has to sit down. Most of these birds will just be getting up and nodding now. Why, some of them won't be able to answer roll call.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Bird, Answers

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Overcoming

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• They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.

  Buddy Guy

  Play, Water, Rehearsal

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• I used to sleep on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke
  bottles for food, money, and getting weekly free meals at a local temple

  Steve Jobs

  Sleep, Meals, Bottles

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• I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while you are living, it's good enough to pay in after you die. By the time you die you should be so used to paying taxes that it would just be almost second nature to you.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Law

  "They've Got a New Dictionary at Ellis Island" (1926)

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• Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.

  A. E. Coppard

  Loneliness, Home, Wind

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• I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

  John Muir

  Mother, Feet, Envy

  John Muir (1999). “To Yosemite and Beyond: Writings from the Years 1863-1875”

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• Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Discovery, Slave, Printing

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• You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

  Golda Meir

  Feelings, Guilt, Ifs

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• I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Thinking, Here I Am

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• And if you call one a real estate agent and he won't sell you anything. He is a REALATOR. It's the same as what the old fashioned real estate agent used to be only the commission is different.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Different, Agents

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Men

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• If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.

  Hammurabi

  Taken, Men, Garden

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• This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

  Marc Forgione

  Native American, Kids, Warrior

  "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel, historically, for thousands of years and still today.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Years, Enlightenment

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• In order to survive women have developed their second attention, which men have not evolved. They use the second attention, and have used it most effectively, to manipulate men; it's a justifiable reaction that has been necessary for survival.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Survival

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• Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Leader

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Player, Practice

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• If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Bird

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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