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Image of Noah Webster
Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.
- Noah Webster
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Image of Zach Braff
If it were up to me, it'd be outlawed. I mean, come on. Zach Braff was born streamlined, and that's how it should stay!
- Zach Braff
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Image of Zach Braff
I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?
- Zach Braff
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of William Wilberforce
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?
- William Wilberforce
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Image of Dwight Yoakam
I guess I stayed with the faith. I mean, organized religion is not something that I've maintained a direct connection to in my life, but the spirituality of it has had an indelible impact on my life and remains with me.
- Dwight Yoakam
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Image of Christine Feehan
Do you see, Solange, that you are the only woman in my world? The one woman who can choose life or death for me. You are the center of my world and you always will be. When I tell you that your pleasure is mine, I mean that literally
- Christine Feehan
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Image of Vladimir Nabokov
Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.
- Vladimir Nabokov
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Image of Jeaniene Frost
When you conquer something, it means you fought for it.
- Jeaniene Frost
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Image of Ezra Pound
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.
- Ezra Pound
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Vandana Shiva
The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.
- Vandana Shiva
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Image of Manolo Blahnik
I only saw one collection of Victoria Beckham, and I thought it was very much like Pierre Cardin or Marcel Rochas dresses. She's thought about it, and she knows what she wants. And people buy it, so that means she works. She has this incredible will power to do something that she likes to do. And I love that. I respect that.
- Manolo Blahnik
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Image of Ken Wilber
To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.
- Ken Wilber
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Image of Terry Pratchett
If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Image of John Henry Newman
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless
- John Henry Newman
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Image of Louise Hay
Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.
- Louise Hay
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Image of Jerry Seinfeld
Anyone who would laugh at a recital is probably some sort of lunatic anyway. I mean, only a sick, twisted mind could be that rude and ignorant.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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Image of Joseph Addison
Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.
- Joseph Addison
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Image of David Sedaris
The good thing about England - like, if I were in France, all people would be doing is rubbing my nose in Donald Trump. As if I voted for him. Just rubbing my nose in him. And in England, they'd be rubbing my nose in it too, except for Brexit. So that means they can't rub my nose in anything!
- David Sedaris
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Image of Plutarch
For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.
- Plutarch
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Image of Ozzy Osbourne
I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom.
- Ozzy Osbourne
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Image of Hayley Williams
I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldnt say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.
- Hayley Williams
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Image of Leonard Bernstein
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.
- Leonard Bernstein
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Image of Vladimir Putin
When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka, as well as Eastern Siberia. All this area contains tremendous resources, including oil and gas, 90 percent of Russian tin, 30 percent of Russian gold, 35 percent of forest, 70 percent of Russia's fish is harvested in the local waters.
- Vladimir Putin
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Image of Vladimir Putin
If somebody prefers to work by means of sanctions, he is welcome to do so. But sanctions are a temporary measure. Firstly, they contradict the international law. Secondly, tell me where this policy of sanctions proved to be effective. The answer is nowhere.
- Vladimir Putin
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Image of John Stuart Mill
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness. That which is necessary, that which must be, means that which will be, whatever supposition we may make in regard to all other things.
- John Stuart Mill
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Image of Anna Quindlen
I was very driven, very focused, very ambitious. I mean, when I look back on myself in my 20s, part of me just cringes.
- Anna Quindlen
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Image of Pope John Paul II
When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.
- Pope John Paul II
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Image of Pope John Paul II
The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.
- Pope John Paul II
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Image of Terry Pratchett
I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
- Terry Pratchett
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Image of Donald Trump
There's tremendous spirit about make America great again. I mean that's the whole thing. We're going to make America great again.
- Donald Trump
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Image of Mary Balogh
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
- Mary Balogh
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Image of Rainbow Rowell
Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. “You’re kind of mean,” he said. “Don’t laugh. It just encourages me.
- Rainbow Rowell
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Image of Edith Wharton
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?
- Edith Wharton
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Image of Pablo Picasso
Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.
- Pablo Picasso
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Image of Theodore Roethke
I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
- Theodore Roethke
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Image of Samantha Power
We need to find means for cooperation.
- Samantha Power
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Image of John Piper
The infinite reservoir of future grace is flowing back through the present into the ever-growing pool of past grace. The inexhaustible reservoir is invisible except through the promises. But the ever-enlarging pool of past grace is visible; and God means for the certainty and beauty and depth to strengthen our faith in future grace.
- John Piper
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Image of Rajneesh
When you are not the doer how can the attachment happen? You do a small thing and you become attached. You say, "I have done this." You would like everybody to know that you have done this and you have done that. This ego is the barrier for the supreme understanding. Drop the doer and let things happen. That's what Tilopa means by being loose and natural.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Rajneesh
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is the idea of vegetarianism. It simply means: don't destroy life. It simply means: life is God - avoid destroying it, otherwise you will be destroying the very ecology.
- Rajneesh
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Image of Mother Teresa
We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.
- Mother Teresa
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Image of Ted Turner
If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.
- Ted Turner
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Image of Pliny the Elder
Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
- Pliny the Elder
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Image of Scott Westerfeld
Sooner or later usually means too late
- Scott Westerfeld
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Image of Scott Westerfeld
Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
- Scott Westerfeld
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Image of Scott Westerfeld
And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.
- Scott Westerfeld
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Image of Scott Westerfeld
God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.
- Scott Westerfeld
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