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• Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

  Neal Asher

  Men, Levels, Satisfaction

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Skinner”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

  Victoria Ocampo

  Discipline, Morality, Cleanliness

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• Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.

  Rachel Weisz

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

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• There's a constant chatter in our house, whether it's giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it. I love it. I love it. I hate it when they're gone. I hate it. Maybe it's nice to be in a hotel room for a day - 'Oh, nice, I can finally read a paper.' But then, by the next day, I miss that cacophony, all that life.

  Brad Pitt

  Nice, Hate, Next Day

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to.  He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.

  Meg Ryan

  Father, People, World

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• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Eye, Journey, Thinking

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

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• And to get that much talent in the show—and to keep it constant and consistent—I think is a remarkable feat.

  Anthony Head

  Thinking, Talent, Remarkable

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• We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I shall miss greatly. I've stopped acting, but I don't think I've finished using my voice. I could, and probably will, record the whole of Shakespeare's sonnets. They live at the side of my bed and are my constant companions.

  Peter O'Toole

  Hard Work, Thinking, Voice

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.

  David Foster

  Real, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

  Greg Proops

  Years, White, People

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• Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Real, Love Is, Strange

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• You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Angel, Men

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• There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Miracle, Done

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) Easter Day, 25 March 1627

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• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fighting, Cutting, Genius

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

  Louis Aragon

  Truth, Errors, May

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• God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Love, Pain, Choices

  Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

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• It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Fear, Cybernetics, Psychological

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.88, Penguin

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• Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

  Charles Stross

  Business, Law, Brain

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• I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Running, Thinking

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• America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Change, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Patrick Renshaw (1998). “Democracy in America”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is useless, sisters, for you to attempt the duties of your exalted callings . . . without the constant companionship of the Spirit of God.

  Susa Young Gates

  Sister, Calling, Useless

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• My photographs are a picture of the chaos in the world, and of my relationship to that chaos. My prints show the world’s constant upsetting of man’s equilibrium, and his eternal battle to reestablish it.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Men, Upset, Battle

  Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz (1973). “Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer”

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• Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Second Amendment, Mind Games

  "Jefferson: The face of the modern gun debate" by Christina Zdanowicz, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2013.

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• The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Self

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.230, Hackett Publishing

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• Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant.

  Max Horkheimer

  Judgment, Form, Synthetic

  "Critical Theory: Selected Essays" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 146), 1982.

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