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• I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Missing, Want, Today

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• He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

  Herman Melville

  Success, Wisdom, Failure

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow

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• All you who are in love Aye and can not remove it I pity the pain that you endure. For experience lets me know That your hearts are filled with woe It's a woe that no mortal can cure. -"the Curragh of Kildare

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Pain, Heart, Woe

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• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Power, Government

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

  Emily Bronte

  Love, Soulmate, Mad

  Wuthering Heights ch. 16 (1847)

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• You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

  Gene Kranz

  Believe, Rooms, Problem

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• You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

  Cicely Saunders

  Life, Death, Christian

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• For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Ignorance, Long Ago, Giving

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• The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspiring, Leadership, Education

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
  Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
  Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
  And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
  Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
  Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
  Yet many a man is making friends with death
  Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Rain, Love Is

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

  Walter Mosley

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

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• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Depression, Running

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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Progress, Scientific Progress

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• Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Teacher, Dad, College

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• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

  Alexander Smith

  Today, Departure, Tomorrow

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• You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Rights, Government, Hands

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Courage, Fighting, Enough

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• over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Offering, Pages

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• [...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Artist, Glasses

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• The ways of change are dictated by the circumstances of each country, each place and each time. I don't think that arrogant intellectuals should be dictating to the people which way they should be heading. I think we should be listening to the people, see in which directions things are developing. People are walking where they can, not where they want to. But they are walking!

  Eduardo Galeano

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: apracticalpolicy.org

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• And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Trying, Shapes, Want

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.24, Princeton University Press

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• When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

  Orson Scott Card

  Art, Believe, Stories

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.600, Macmillan

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• …we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

  Italo Calvino

  Thinking, Disappear, Fragments

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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