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Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

Eve Ensler

Moving, Wind, Molecules

Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.217, Macmillan

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The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.

Michael Hastings

Attitude, Team, Military

"The Runaway General: The Profile That Brought Down McChrystal" by Michael Hastings, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2010.

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Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece.

Stephen Harrigan

Book, Creative, Lonesome Dove

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You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a very few important exercises, movements that train the whole body as a system, not as a collection of separate body parts. The problem with the programs advocated by all the national exercise organizations is that they fail to recognize this basic principle: the body best adapts as a whole organism to stress applied to the whole organism. The more stress that can be applied to as much of the body at one time as possible, the more effective and productive the adaptation will be.

Mark Rippetoe

Strong, Stress, Exercise

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The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.

Jonathan Messinger

Pain, Past, Men

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We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

Barack Obama

Blue, America, Forever

Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

Mario Benedetti

Errors, Perfection, Polished

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Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

Ozwald Boateng

Tools, Firsts, Emotion

"A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

Cynthia Heimel

Kitchen, Lingerie, Clean

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Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers...
”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

Samuel Chadwick

Prayer, Grief, Heart

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Day is just a collection of hours.

Serj Tankian

Hours

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A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another. This wonderful collection of facts and arguments, written in a good-natured, almost conversational style, makes it easy to loosen yourself from your preconceptions and enjoy seeing reality more clearly and completely. We have needed such a book for a long time.

James Fadiman

Spiritual, Book, Reality

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At Age 11, I used to listen to Madonna's Immaculate Collection every day

Amy Winehouse

Age, Used, Immaculate

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We must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all, not once but continually.

Adyashanti

Silence, Path, Ends

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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Alistair Cooke

New York, Cities In The World, Village

Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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A "dis-ease" is simply a name to the respective symptom (or collection of symptoms) that occurs when acids damage the cells of the body (or set in motion an inflammatory response), and a symptom is experienced. Names of "dis-eases" may seem complex but please understand that they are simply: location, location, location! One must alkalize the body to reverse the inflammation and return balance to the body.

Robert Morse

Inspiring, Cells, Names

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The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

Health, Medicine, Body

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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Taken, Medicine, Medical

Napoleon in Exile (Barry O'Meara)

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He deserves ten out of ten for doing what he does. He is a sensation, but still he can improve. He must know when to move the ball on quickly and when to try the impossible mission. When he learns this, he won't win a single Golden Ball, but an entire collection.

Johan Cruijff

Moving, Winning, Trying

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You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

Jeff Foxworthy

Loss, Redneck, Earthquakes

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Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

Steve Sheinkin

Military, Government, World

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My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

Vladimir Kramnik

Book, Practice, Games

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...the kingdom of God is that invisible collection of committed Christians that transcends cultures, ideologies... and creeds- all bound by the golden commitment to say nothing and do nothing that would attack the self-esteem, the self-respect, and the dignity of any other human being, whether or not they are committed members of the kingdom of God. The dignity of the person then is the irreducible cell of true Christianity.

Robert H. Schuller

Christian, Religious, Self Esteem

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DAYS THAT I'LL REMEMBER is a lovingly assembled and beautifully written collection of conversations, observations, and memories of music, friendship, and days gone by. It's good to be back again with John Lennon, his beloved Yoko Ono, and his trusted chronicler and friend Jonathan Cott.

Martin Scorsese

Memories, Days Gone By, Beloved

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The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.

Howard G. Hendricks

Curiosity, Helping, Transformation

Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book/Living By the Book Workbook Set”, p.12, Moody Publishers

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