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• Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Perfection, Simplicity, Body

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Yelling, Balance

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• People think that women don't negotiate because they're not good negotiators, but that's not it. Women don't negotiate because it doesn't work as well for them. Women have to say, 'I really add a lot of value, and it's in your interest to pay me more.' I hate that advice, but I want to see women get ahead.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• A lot of the Google inventions came from engineers just screwing around with ideas. And then management would see them, and we'd say, 'Boy, that's interesting. Let's add some more engineers.'

  Eric Schmidt

  Boys, Ideas, Interesting

  "Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 11, 2013.

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• You cannot add more minutes to the day, but you can utilize each one to the fullest.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Minutes

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• I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Night, Names

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Beer, Self

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• 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

  Rob Sheffield

  Mom, Idols, Voice

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• Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Peace, Brother, War

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Herne Shepherd (1810). “The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ... Ed. ... by Richard Herne Shepherd”, p.286

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• Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Kids, Ideas, Trying

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• Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Funny, Truth

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• From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

  Gloria Steinem

  May, Violence, Justified

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• Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Principles, Height

  Laurence Sterne (1811). “The Beauties of Sterne: With Some Account of His Life”, p.240

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• I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

  Laurence Sterne

  Smile, Laughter, Men

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.3, eBookIt.com

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• Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

  Laurence Sterne

  Honor, Gold, Titles

  "The Works of Laurence Sterne".

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• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes Rocky work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fighting, Journey, Profound

  "JMS Gives New BEFORE WATCHMEN Details, Defends Project". Interview with Vaneta Rogers, www.newsarama.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

  Taylor Swift

  Fun, Imagination, Mind

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• A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout.

  Bill Toomey

  Workout, Fun, Dimensions

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• I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

  Richard Trumka

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, President

  "Freedom Isn’t Free" by Richard Trumka, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2012.

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Educational

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• If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.

  Donatella Versace

  Queens, Rocks, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

  Alice Walker

  Understanding, Movement, Literature

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.267, Hachette UK

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• Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Karma, Humility

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.297, The Floating Press

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