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• The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loss, Winning, Night

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Long, Laughing

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• American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

  David Foster Wallace

  People, Giving, Secret

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• I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.

  Robert Bly

  Men, Emotional, Discipline

  "Iron John: A Book About Men". Book by Robert Bly, 1990.

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• Since Dominic's been sleeping with me, the mice have been trying various labels on him, looking for one that fits. My personal favorite was the week they spent calling him "the God of Absolutely Never Smiling, No, Not Ever.

  Mira Grant

  Sleep, Trying, Labels

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• People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, Treated, Trusted

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• There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

  Amish Tripathi

  Reality, Opposites, Perception

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• There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.

  Eoin Colfer

  Art, Sorry, Men

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• From Ronan's room, he heard Noah's laugh. He and Ronan were throwing various objects from the second-story window to the parking low below. There was a terrific crash. Ronan's voice rose, exasperated. "Not that one, Noah.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Voice, Laughing, Rose

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• O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Time, Kings, Space

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.453, GENERAL PRESS

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• But the great Master said, "I see
  No best in kind, but in degree;
  I gave a various gift to each,
  To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teaching, Learning, Degrees

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.188

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• So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

  Benjamin Harkarvy

  Dance, Ballet, Magic

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• All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions.

  William James

  Happiness, Pain, Routine

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.553, Courier Corporation

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• A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.

  Gene Wolfe

  Life, Wise, Men

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.338, Macmillan

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• I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.

  Oliver Stone

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Gratitude

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• If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Different, Would Be

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• I have never wanted to be typecast, one of those actors who plays a variation on a one-note theme. So just as I enjoy playing a wide variety of characters, from good to bad to ugly to cute - so I have enjoyed of late working in film and television, as well as in theatres of various sizes and shapes.

  Ian Mckellen

  Cute, Character, Play

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• Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

  Milarepa

  Dream, Yoga, Night

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• This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity ... underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Men, Land, Diversity

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• The teacher can seldom afford to miss the questions: What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition? The student should consider the principal parts of the problem attentively, repeatedly, and from from various sides.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Science, Data

  George Pólya (1957). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Years, Feelings, Vision

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• It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

  Charles Wright

  Past, Talking, Locks

  Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan

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• "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Mother, Fear, Rain

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