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• To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

  William James

  One Thing, Knows, Universe

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ..." and the "Ubi nihil vales ..." both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

  Samuel Beckett

  Real, Departure, Study

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Home, Heart, Ideas

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• Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female,
  you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Suicide, Running, Years

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• If we could ever find that moment, maybe thousands of years from
  now, where all the musics of the worlds would be communicating with each other, there would be no more wars, there would be peace.

  Gunther Schuller

  War, Years, World

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• Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words carefully chosen.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Battle, Breakfast, Lines

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• Some people do need to be held to account because some of the conduct is so widely at odds with our values. But making an example out of a few people would be a disservice.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Odds, People, Example

  "Torture report: U.S. faces harsh realities" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. December 10, 2014.

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• the construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Construction, Communist

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• Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.

  Jermain Defoe

  Dream, Play, Careers

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• Actually I am the one to blame. I was the one who had said that maybe I would be married in two years time. But things are different now and there is still time before I get married. As the saying goes, 'Man proposes, God disposes', every time we make a plan God changes it.

  Katrina Kaif

  Men, Years, Two

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• Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Class, Culture, Salvation

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

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• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Feelings, Want

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• Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

  Oliver Sykes

  Loving Life, Rocks, Looks

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• Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Names, Doe

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• I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Spring, Flower

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• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  Om Puri

  Mind, Way, Fabulous

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• An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.

  Steve Goodier

  Games, Decision, Important

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• Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

  Rowan Williams

  New Year, Real, Years

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• It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Example, Rumination

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• Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.

  Paula Wall

  Running, Dog, Majority

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• I love horror movies, I wish I would get more roles to do more horror movies. I got to make a living so I take what they give me, but if I could be the next Vincent Price I would be the happiest guy in the world.

  Nick Damici

  Giving, Guy, Wish

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• I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

  Neko Case

  Long, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think I'm cut out to be a supervillain. I think I'd be a supervillain that would exercise some form of mind control. Rather than war, I'd force people to get on with each other and I'd force people to argue reasonably about things rather than be polemical. So I'd be a supervillain that makes everyone get on, but forcefully. There would be no choice about it. No free will.

  Jemaine Clement

  War, Exercise, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started modeling because I thought it would be a good stepping stone for what I was studying (marketing), but since I started it I never had any intention to fail.

  Kylie Bax

  Marketing, Stones, Study

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• I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

  Jonah Hill

  Nice, Kids, Nephew

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