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• A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

  Des MacHale

  Men, Numbers, Analyzing

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• Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens, to unravel the mystery, to see good triumph. You have to sustain it, keep it warm, feed it, just a little bit, not too much at a time, as your story goes on. That's called suspense. It can bring desire to a frenzy, in which case you are in a good position to bring off a wonderful climax.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Desire

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• The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

  Sharon Begley

  Acceptance, Mind, Information

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• If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the taint of stinginess obsess the heart and stay there. even if it were their last and final bit of food, they would not enjoy its use without sharing it, if there were anyone to receive it

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Heart, Finals

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• Please, try to eat a bit less meat, a bit more veggies from today. Let it become a habit gradually until not to eat meat anymore. Then, observe the changing of the body and spirit after eating veggies, fruits and grains.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Humility, Trying

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• O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

  Cyrus the Great

  Army, Men, Earth

  Epitaph to Cyrus. "Plutarch: The Age of Alexander". Book by Plutarch, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, p. 326, 1973.

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• I suppose that for most people one of the darker joys of gardening is that once you've got started it's not at all hard to find someone who knows a little bit less than you.

  Allen Lacy

  Garden, People, Joy

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• Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

  John Kehoe

  Garden, People, Different

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• Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

  Austin O'Malley

  Dog, Revenge, Anger

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• He was a bit like a corkscrew. Twisted, cold and sharp.

  Kate Cruise O'Brien

  Sarcastic, Cold, Twisted

  Kate Cruise O'Brien (1980). “A gift horse, and other stories”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• Aren't the stars beautiful? Thousands of them twinkling so far from us, yet so near. Who knows what it's like in the universe where they are? ... I can't breathe when I look at them. I bet somewhere out there we could understand what life is really about, and find a way to bring a bit more meaning into this world.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Stars, Looks

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  If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

  Herodotus

  Fun, Men, Knowing

  "The Histories" by Herodotus, Book 2, Ch. 173, c. 440 BC.

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• The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends on intention. Intention depends on intuiting-at least a little bit-the suffering inherent in the human condition and the pain we feel, and cause, when we act out of confusion. It also depends on trusting-at least a little bit-in the possibility of a contented, satisfied mind.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Compassion, Practice

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.

  Dave Kopel

  Children, Gun, Giving

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• I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of story. An interesting dynamic between people. A theme. A great character back story. A cool occupation. The look of someone's eyes. A burning ambition. Hundreds of thousands of bits of flotsam and jetsam that we stick in the back of our minds like the shelves full of buttons and ribbons and fabrics and threads and beads in a costumer's shop.

  Alexandra Sokoloff

  Ambition, Character, Eye

  "Collecting Character". www.screenwritingtricks.com. March 27, 2009.

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• What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

  Adyashanti

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Light

  Adyashanti (2006). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.105, Sounds True

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• In gardens it's not just plants and insects and microbes that grow. People grow too, and the best bit is that they don't realise it's happening. It just happens.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Garden, People, Plant

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• A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

  Caitlin Thomas

  Vulgarity Is, Heartless, Littles

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• I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

  Gordon Wu

  Principles, Action, Belive

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• I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

  Jerry Gillies

  Mistake, Decision, Brain

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• Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

  Barbara Sher

  Silly, Self Worth, Sea

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• The funny thing is that the process of coming up with an idea for a column or a 'Candid Camera' sequence is essentially the same thing. I just live my life with eyes and ears perhaps a little bit wider open than some people. Whatever bothers me or seems off kilter or in need of parody-or on a serious subject, in need of examination-in the past I had done a sequence about it. Now I write a column about it.

  Peter Funt

  Art, Eye, Writing

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• I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body of American music, it gives me strength as a writer, like I'm dipping my pen into a deep ink well. That's the folk music tradition. Like Pete Seeger said, 'Everyone's a link in the chain.' It's a strong chain, so rely on it. ... I believe it takes all those great songs in the past to make your song even a little bit good.

  Ketch Secor

  Song, Strong, Believe

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• Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits.

  Semezdin Mehmedinovic

  Reality, Wholeness

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• You can spend a bit of yourself when you give yourself to a character. At the end of a job, you have to remind yourself who and what you are.

  Richard Armitage

  Jobs, Character, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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