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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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• The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

  Sri Aurobindo

  World, Firsts, Paradox

  Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry, India), Aurobindo Ghose (1988). “Bulletin Du Centre International D'éducation Sri Aurobindo”

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• The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
  Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
  So always strive for that.
  Set your life around that goal.
  Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Goal, Enlightenment, Purpose

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• The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Innovation, Different, Culture

  "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• I thought, enough of this, I'm not an abstract painter, what the hell am I going to do? Should I get a job in a shoe store, sell real estate, or what? I was really depressed by the whole thing, because I felt like a painter, yet I couldn't make paintings.

  Ralph Goings

  Jobs, Real, Shoes

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• I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to

  Anish Kapoor

  Years, Two, Lines

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• The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Honesty

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• You can waste a whole lifetime
  Trying to be
  What you think is expected of you
  But youll never be free

  Chris Rea

  Thinking, Trying, Waste

  Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991

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• I just wore a cage my whole career coming up, and didn't feel a reason not to have some type of protection.

  Brian Leetch

  Careers, Cages, Protection

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• Who you are, in truth, who everyone is, is whole and perfect and beautiful. And if that can be recognized, then it is possible that self-torture can stop!

  Gangaji

  Beautiful, Self, Perfect

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• I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Pregnancy, Bumps

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• The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

  Charlie Haden

  Trying, Quality, Honest

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• Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.

  David Deutsch

  Stars, Optimism, People

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• People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.

  Steve Marriott

  Ideas, Feet, Rocks

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• The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Writing, Islands

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town”, p.7, The Floating Press

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• People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.

  Ben Marcus

  Sweet, Mistake, Rain

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.46, Vintage

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• It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.

  Pascal Lamy

  One Direction, Europe, Trying

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• We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

  Pat Travers

  Years, Battle, Trying

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• I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Years, Enjoy Life, Christmas Love

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• The important thing, once you have enough to eat and a nice house, is what you can do for others, what you can contribute to the enterprise as a whole.

  Donald Knuth

  Nice, House, Important

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

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• The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.

  Donald Knuth

  Four, Three, Admiration

  Interview with Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal, April 1996.

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• It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

  Beryl Markham

  Animal, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Self, Universe

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• And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the physical body, the common things of life, the winds and the rain, the clouds, the earth itself -is amenable to man's thought, and that he had dominion over it when he knows it.

  Emmet Fox

  Truth, Rain, Men

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• You're going to see ups and downs your whole career.

  Tony Parker

  Careers, Ups & Downs

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