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• There comes a time when the bubble of ego is popped and you can’t get the ground back for an extended period of time. Those times, when you absolutely cannot get it back together, are the most rich and powerful times in our lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Powerful, Ego, Together

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• As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

  George W. Bush

  Golf, President, Way

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• Tokyo is like a huge futuristic pinball machine. It's like a bubble with two lost creatures inside a pinball machine that doesn't care about them. The other thing is, it's very colorful.

  Gaspar Noe

  Care, Futuristic, Colorful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

  John Webster

  Greatness, Boys, Air

  John Webster “The Duchess of Malfi”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Broken, Remember, Exception

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• I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  My Own

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• At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.

  Dennis Miller

  Wall, Nice, School

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• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Dream, Shadow

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• Only one who bursts with enthusiasm do I instruct; Only one who bubbles with excitement do I enlighten. If I hold up one corner and you do not come back to me with the other three, I do not continue the lesson.

  Confucius

  Three, Lessons, Enthusiasm

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• Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
  They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Sea, Return

  Alexander Pope (1811). “An Essay on Man”, p.80

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• Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Taken, Sleep, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats”, p.57, William Butler Yeats

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• How strange and abandoned and unsettled I am. Like a snowdome paper weight that's been shaken. There's a blizzard in my bubble. Everything in my world that was steady and sure and sturdy has been shaken out of place, and it's now drifting and swirling back down in a confetti of debris. (p30)

  Craig Silvey

  World, Paper, Weight

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• You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

  Nick Hornby

  Way, Force

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.63, Penguin

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• Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

  Veruschka von Lehndorff

  Mean, Way, Forgotten

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• This world's a bubble.

  Saint Augustine

  World, This World

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• Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Understanding, Bigs, Discomfort

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst — and that brings the whole country down.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Practice, Hands

  "Facts show Democrats are job creators" by Jennifer Granholm, www.politico.com. May 15, 2012.

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• …what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Dream, Pain, People

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.665, ShandonPress

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• Dance and Provencal song and sunburnt mirth! On for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene! With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.

  John Keats

  Song, Purple, Mouths

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 2

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• Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake.

  Joseph Conrad

  Fall, Past, Light

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.7, Xist Publishing

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• Man's life is but a jest,
  A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.

  George Walter

  Dream, Men, Air

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• I don't want to be in an art bubble.

  Diane Paulus

  Art, Want

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

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• Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

  Walter Kirn

  World, Sometimes, Heartbeat

  Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”

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• And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

  Nate Saint

  God, Christian, Years

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• I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

  Antonio Banderas

  Reading, Writing, Caught

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