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• For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Opportunity, Littles, Kind

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• No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Country, Often Is

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• We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Unique, Emotional

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• I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.

  Ida B. Wells

  Dog, Fighting, Black History

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.62, University of Chicago Press

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• It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Differences, Words Of Wisdom, Pieces

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you think that civilization advances because of things written in books? Not a bit of what is written in books ever got there until after the thought of it happened in someone's mind. Someone first had to collect it from space, or recollect it from its electrical pattern to which he (or she) had been attuned. The book is but a record of what has already happened.

  Walter Russell

  Wisdom, Book, Thinking

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• The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.

  Rachel Vincent

  Hilarious, Doors, Giving

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• The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

  Carl Jung

  Self, Psychology, Depth

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (2002). “Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

  Paul Saffo

  Butterfly, Jewels, Data

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• Whether or not you agree that trimming and cooking are likely to lead on to downright forgery, there is little to support the argument that trimming and cooking are less reprehensible and more forgivable. Whatever the rationalization is, in the last analysis one can no more than be a bit dishonest than one can be a little bit pregnant. Commit any of these three sins and your scientific career is in jeopardy and deserves to be.

  Charles Thomas Jackson

  Science, Careers, Support

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• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  Jonathan Swift

  School, Men, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.121

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• If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."

  Alan Watts

  Love, Song, Bird

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• Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away... I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in Dannemora.'

  Thelma Ritter

  Love, Fun, Father

  "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.

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• When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it -I absolutely just love it.

  Jack Lemmon

  Love, Reading, Justice

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• Then be sure of one thing:
  The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.
  The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

  Richard Bach

  Beauty, Limits, Sin

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• To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world
  The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.

  Tim Robbins

  Finding The One, Finding Love, World

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• You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

  James Sinegal

  Business, Income, Add

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• Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.

  Arnold Lobel

  Work, Flattery, Harder

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• When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Dad, Kids

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• I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

  Melanie Fiona

  Romantic, Belief, Hopeless

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• I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

  Hoda Kotb

  Inspiring, People, Joy

  "The 4 Words That Led Hoda Kotb To Her ‘Today’ Show Job". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2015.

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• I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.

  Mark Polish

  Work, Thinking, World

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• Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

  Brian Epstein

  Ideas, Management, Wells

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

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: I do know this, that I'm finally a little bit more relieved than I've been for some time. Patti (his wife) and I have talked about it a lot and came to that conclusion (to retire). I had a feeling of serenity, if you will. In fact, I was feeling so serene that I put in a film of Florida State, and that got me out of that mood in a hurry.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Retirement, Florida

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• Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.

  Chris Moneymaker

  Facts, Changed, Money Maker

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