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• Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Meaningful, Dark, Intimate Relationships

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• Starting a new novel is a little like starting a new relationship - you have to be prepared to commit for at least three years and put up with the domestic tedium as well as the emotional highs!

  Tobsha Learner

  Writing, New Relationship, Emotional

  "'Sphinx' by Tobsha Learner". Women's Weekly Interview, www.nowtolove.com.au. May 11, 2009.

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• Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.

  David Cannadine

  Kings, Jobs, Queens

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• A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  Albert Einstein

  Strong, Peace, War

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• Parents should teach their children to pray. The child learns both from what the parents do and what they say. The child who sees a mother or a father pass through the trials of life with fervent prayer to God and then hears a sincere testimony that God answered in kindness will remember what he or she saw and heard. When trials come, that individual will be prepared.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Mother, Kindness, Prayer

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• One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Book, Long, Library

  "Quantitative measurement and dynamic library service" by Ching-chih Chen, (p. 52), 1980.

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• Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

  Michael Grade

  Risk, Innovation, Stale

  "Reflections on Success". Book by Martyn Lewis, 1997.

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• A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Fate

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• A people who mean to be free must be prepared to meet danger in person, and not rely upon the fallacious protection of armies

  Edmund Randolph

  Freedom, Military, Responsibility

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  You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

  Robert Greene

  Your Future, Headings, Seems

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2016

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• To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

  Alice Waters

  Beautiful, Way, Ingredients

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• The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing to go all the way for your art. If it is a question between choosing between your life and a work of art -- any work of art -- your decision is made for you.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Art, Sacrifice, Decision

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• The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sweet, Home, Son

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1945, Library of America

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• Death has no sting to a Believer. Once death was the penalty of sin-sin being forgiven, the penalty ceases and Christians do not die, now, as a punishment for their sin, but they die that they may be prepared to live!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Punishment, May

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• A wise prince then...should never be idle in times of peace but should industriously lay up stores of which to avail himself in times of adversity so that when fortune abandons him he may be prepared to resist her blows.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wise, Adversity, Blow

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• Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Reality, Thinking

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

  Robyn Davidson

  Prepared, Linked

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.193, A&C Black

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• To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

  David Galula

  Military, Boys, Nurse

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• Any player coming to Spurs whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must be prepared to work at his game. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing.

  Bill Nichols

  Hate, Boys, Player

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• As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Challenges, Taught, Cost

  Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Faces, Prepared, Knows

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Black Ice”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.

  Meg Cabot

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  "Exclusive Meg Cabot Interview!". Interview with Rachel Lutz, www.seventeen.com. April 18, 2011.

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• If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Long, Want, Compromise

  Interview with Scott Stearns, www.voanews.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Usual, World

  Interview with Tomilson Hill, www.cfr.org.

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• Happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated , and defended privately by each person.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Prepared, Persons, Conditions

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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