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• The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Journey, Perfect

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear down the memory hole, because if — as the war ends, or at least starts to end — if, at this time, the history of the war is written as us going there to topple the regime of a bad man when that frankly isn‘t why were told that we were going there — Aren‘t we still at risk of making this horrific mistake again? And, aren‘t we letting the people who foisted the WMD idea on us, not many years ago, aren‘t we sort of letting them get away with it?

  Rachel Maddow

  Memories, War, Mistake

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", February 27, 2009.

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• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Philosophy, Taken, Battle

  Gabriel Marcel (1952). “Men against humanity”

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• Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Stars, Party, Thinking

  "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.

  William Golding

  Majesty, Redemption, Vastness

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• I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

  Jack Canfield

  Teacher, Writing, Groups

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• Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Joy, Harmony, Heal

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• Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, Suffering, Together

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.18, Penguin

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• I still feel very much an imposter in the whole music scene, which I'm quite happy about to be honest.

  Nick Cave

  Honest, Scene, Feels

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• The soul seeks God with its whole being. Because it is desperate to be whole, the soul is God-smitten and God-crazy and God-obsessed. My mind may be obsessed with idols; my will may be enslaved to habits; my body may be consumed with appetites. But my soul will never find rest until it rests in God.

  John Ortberg

  Crazy, Idols, Soul

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• Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Years

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

  Arnold Rothstein

  Men, Double Standard, Towns

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• Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

  Charles Addams

  Children, Feet, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, Order, Knives

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• With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for history’s most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement.

  Matthew Pearl

  Appreciation, Strong, Character

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• You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world around you. You become a miracle worker in the world. As you begin to understand how love is crucial to the healing of the world, your miracle work will take on a whole new meaning.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Healing, Dark, Love Is

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2013). “May Cause Miracles: A 6-week Kick-start to Unlimited Happiness”, p.205, Hay House, Inc

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• Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

  Rene Leriche

  Pain, Simple, Nerves

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• We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.

  Lydia Davis

  Memories, Character, Ongoing

  "Lydia Davis: I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters". Interview with Sarah Manguso, www.believermag.com. January, 2008.

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• We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Frustration, Self, Expression

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• One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

  Reid Hoffman

  Running, Visionaries, World

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• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Fate, People

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

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• See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.

  Manuel Rivas

  Hate, Blood, People

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• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  Colleen McCullough

  Smile, God, Song

  "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• Maybe, one other match better; but if you look at the tournament as a whole, I played very high quality tennis for seven matches and raised my game when I needed to

  Richard Krajicek

  Games, Tennis, Quality

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• You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.

  Helen Frankenthaler

  Looks, Use, Way

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