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• Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Perspective, Needs

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

  Yancy Butler

  Lying, Years, Want

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• It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Mind

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.162, Vivekananda Kendra

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• To love means being 100 percent responsible for your experience of living, to not be a victim or a martyr, and to be 100 percent accountable for the quality of your life, which includes the amount of love, joy, and growth you create in your relationships each day. To love is the ability to remain strong, stable, and committed through difficult times, changes, and challenges. It means being gentle, kind, and supportive of your potential, goals, and aspirations.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love, Strong, Mean

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• While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.

  M. Scott Peck

  Love, Lying, Fall

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• There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

  Mary Leakey

  Science, Arrows, Yield

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• Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self."

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Mom, Self, Vegetables

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• [...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Atheist, Smart, Dark

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• The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that a universal principle is involved.

  Adrian Bejan

  Running, Swimming, Impact

  "Everybody's Doing the Locomotion". www.foxnews.com. December 30, 2005.

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• To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Book, Simple

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• His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

  Irving Stone

  Mind, Lap, Soup

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• There are times when you cannot even control the sugar level in your body. Remember that when you put sugar in your metabolism, you are upsetting your metabolism in a very direct way. X amount of sugar is understandable, but the amount of sugar you put in, only God can save you. And whenever you put x amount of sugar, you must follow the law of depression. When you get that kind of depression, you lose a lot of friends. Therefore, it is very fair to channel your energy. One of the best ways to channel the energy is to do the pranayama.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Healing, Law, Upset

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• There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

  Heraclitus

  Science, Reality, Fire

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• I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

  Nicki Minaj

  Talking, Car, Guests

  "Nicki Minaj's naughty gift for Lil Wayne". Details magazine interview, www.rap-up.com. April 19, 2010.

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• I've seen couples that were having a hard times sexually try cannabis and have it just open their vibes until they were able to reestablish the thing that made them want to be together in the first place. They repaired their relationship with the increased communication grass brings. I've seen a fair amount of that.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Couple, Communication, Hard Times

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• Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Children, Passion, Heart

  Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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• [The Internet] is a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

  Theodore Stevens

  Lines, Messages, Internet

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• The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, Love Is, Use

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.20, Zondervan

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• I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Unique, Being Unique, May

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• The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.

  Jerome Bruner

  Views, Mind, Stories

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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• My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

  Paul Theroux

  Islands, Self, World

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• Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain;
  enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days.
  And you say you are tired?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Running, Tired, Cities

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

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• Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mistake, Creative, Triumph

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• We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

  Alan Watts

  Roots, Anxiety, Strange

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• There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

  Rick Rubin

  Information

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