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• I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Thinking, Roots, Issues

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• I also had a will that let me eliminate everything that stood in the way of my becoming the best dancer I could be. By a gradual process... (I) had invested every bit of my dreams, my hopes, my energies in defining myself as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Dream, Becoming The Best

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

  Jean Houston

  Knowing, Intelligence, Democracy

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• On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility. We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests tend to suffocate it. This is the real crisis.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Atheist, Real

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• There's so little wonder left in the world because we've seen everything one way or another'.

  Jeanette Winterson

  World, Littles, Wonder

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Sexing the Cherry”, p.127, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

  Jose Marti

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  "On Oscar Wilde". Essay by Jose Marti, 1882.

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• Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Clothes, Swamps, Want

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.19, Delacorte Press

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• The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.

  Jim Morrison

  Night, Dresses, Guests

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways" from the book of Isaiah

  Mitch Albom

  Bible, Book, God's Plan

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• For moral reasons I am an atheist - for moral reasons. I am of the opinion that you would recognize a creator by his creation, and the world appears to me to be put together in such a painful way that I prefer to believe that it was not created by anyone than to think that somebody created this intentionally.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Together, World

  Interview with Peter Engel, The Missouri Review, Volume VII, Number 2, 1984.

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• Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come.

  Roger Federer

  Inspirational, Sports, Work

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• As a performer, I wanted to be the loudest, most persistent alarm clock I could be, because there didn’t seem like any other way to snap society out of its Christianity- and media-induced coma.

  Marilyn Manson

  Media, Alarms, Christianity

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• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

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• Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive is one of frightful gentleness. Few of us even realize that we are being beaten.

  Haruki Murakami

  Horse, Path, Realizing

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• When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the really tough fighting and some of the other street fighting type moves. You know, where it's not just show. It's not dressing it up for the cameras too much. It's pretty down and dirty, the way it should be. That's something I like to do. I do that.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dirty, Moving, Character

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.

  Ringo Starr

  Beer, Long, Drug

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• The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

  Ann Druyan

  Death, Husband, Ideas

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• Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Mean

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• Let me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bless, O Lord, all the people of this land.

  George Washington

  Jesus, Godly, Land

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• As for the people of Tasawwuf, they affirm the love of Allah, and this is more evident among them than all other issues....the affirmation of the love of Allah is well-known in the speech of their [old] and recent masters, just as it is affirmed in the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah and in agreement of the ways of the early generation (Salaf)

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Issues

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• This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Kindness, Wife

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 4, sc. 1, l. [208]

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• Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets.
  Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King.
  Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship.
  Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business.
  Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Kings, Islamic

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• The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

  William Hardy McNeill

  Wisdom, Islamic, Example

  "Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.

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• The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised.
  The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.
  The change should be concerning your belief, your morals, your actions, your dealings, your decisions, and your efforts.
  Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Mean

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• My health is in the hands of Allah, who has ways of testing us. Whatever happens, happens. I a'int the greatest - it's Allah. I gave myself a job. I work for God.

  Muhammad Ali

  Wisdom, Jobs, Islamic

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