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• The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.

  Emily Bronte

  World, Heathcliff, Lost

  Emily Bronte (2011). “Wuthering Heights”, p.270, Penguin

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• A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Joy, Library

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.459, Macmillan

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• But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy expanded. It seemed there was such a thing as a broken heart.

  Sarah MacLean

  Heart, Broken, Laughing

  Sarah MacLean (2013). “One Good Earl Deserves A Lover: Number 2 in series”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Morning, Sunday

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016

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• I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

  Ernest Cline

  Cereal, Vintage, Civilization

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• I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Taken, Play

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fashion, Paris, Clothes

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• Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

  Veronica Roth

  Doe, Looks, World

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• History: a collection of epitaphs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  History, Epitaph

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Travel, Real, World

  "Money for nothing" by Timothy Ferriss, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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• Do you want a collection of brilliant minds or a brilliant collection of minds?

  Meredith Belbin

  Teamwork, Mind, Team Building

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• Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

  Douglas McGregor

  Teamwork, Educational, Decision

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• People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Real, Tired

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little to do with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with worth inside of heads and hearts.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  War, Uprising, Gun Rights

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• A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

  Carol Mann

  Mistake, Golf, Swings

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• There's more to be learned here [St. Andrews] about course design than anywhere. Collection bunkers, false fronts, bump shots. The fundamentals of design became fundamental because of what's here. And it happened accidentally. Or maybe accidentally on purpose.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Design, Purpose

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• A good life is a collection of happy memories.

  Denis Waitley

  Sports, Memories, Good Life

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Brain, Hundred, Bigs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of such specimens is sheer vanity and inquisitiveness. I do not presume to say; but we find in our mountains the rarest animals, shells, mussels, and corals embalmed in stone, as it were, living specimens of which are now being sought in vain throughout Europe. These stones alone whisper in the midst of general silence.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Science, Animal, Vanity

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• The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

  Penelope Lively

  Memories, Ideas, Mind

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• We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business.

  Ralph Lauren

  Moving, Technology, Internet

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• The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

  Emma Goldman

  Reality, Liberty, Doe

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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