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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions
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Jane Lindskold Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.
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Benjamin Disraeli Some people exclaim, "Give me no anecdotes of an author, but give me his works," and yet I have often found that the anecdotes are more interesting than the works
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Stephen Walters Even though there are a lot of anecdotes that the housing market is bouncing back, these numbers will cool that down a little bit.
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Karen Friedman Be warm and personal by backing it up with examples, stories and anecdotes that the person on the other end of the phone can relate to and understand.
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Brian Moore As the flow of subliterary "news items" and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.
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John McDermott We expect the housing market will trudge on. For consumer spending, the official numbers will be strong, but by December Bollard will have the anecdotes about how pre-Christmas trading is looking. If it looks like a shocker, he won't move.
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John McDermott We expect the housing market will trudge on, ... For consumer spending, the official numbers will be strong, but by December Bollard will have the anecdotes about how pre-Christmas trading is looking. If it looks like a shocker, he won't move.
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Louise Leakey Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'
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Gary Owens The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.
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Rig Veda The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.
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Reed Kroloff When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.
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Nick Park Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.
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Richard Geist Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.
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Jason Calacanis Until you use the iPad for a couple of weeks, you can't appreciate it. But it quickly becomes your primary consumption device.
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Esperanza Spalding I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning by rote to pass a test. It's not contextualized.
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Nicholas Mosley To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
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Charles Dickens Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
flower sleep eye
Charles Dickens The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
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Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
flower eye scary
Charles Dickens I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
flower giving perfume
Charles Spurgeon Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.
flower garden scripture
Charles Spurgeon No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
flower humility garden
Charles Spurgeon True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.
flower long realizing
Alan Watts You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
flower way bees
Alan Watts There's an interdependence between flowers and bees. Where there are no flowers there are no bees, and where there are no bees, there are no flowers. They are really one organism. And so in the same way, everything in nature depends on everything else.
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David Gregory For American workers, it's an unrelentingly grim scenario,
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Stephenie Meyer I glanced, wide eyed, from Edward's grimace to Jacob's sneer.
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Manmohan Singh From the beginning, as a thinking student of 15, 16 years ago, I was troubled by the grim poverty that I saw around me.
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Roger Clemens Maybe, I'm the Grim Reaper, ... I miss a start and we scored 10 runs.
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Graham Norton My life could have been so grim really, really grim.
grim turns
Mike Scioscia I don't think anything is grim in the clubhouse, ... (The players) know that once we getting going offensively this thing turns on a heartbeat.
grim life meant turning
Tim Curry I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax. And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.
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Tim Curry I think that me turning up is kind of a grim anti-climax, ... And I think that he should just have the life that he was meant to have. I think having a wrinkly actor show up 20 years after is a little old, really.
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Mufi Hannemann Hurricane Katrina is a grim reminder of the importance of preparedness,
life happiness dark
Charles Caleb Colton Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
life distance journey
Charles Caleb Colton Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
life flower heart
Charles Dickens While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.
life children memories
Charles Dickens There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
life success men
Charles Dickens Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
life cells ivy
Charles Dickens Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
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Charles Dickens Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
life summer passion
Charles Dickens Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold
life life-is grind
Charles Dickens My life is one demd horrid grind.
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Alan Watts Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.
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Al Kaline You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
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Dean Acheson I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
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David Riesman Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.
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David Riesman The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.
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David Duval I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.
workout fun powerful
Arnold Schwarzenegger When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.
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Ben Whishaw I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
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Arnold Palmer I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.