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• most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Rooms, Window

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• It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love, Daughter, Mother

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.25, A&C Black

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• Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Writing, Attachment

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• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

  Emma Thompson

  Birthday, Broken Heart, Grief

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• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Squares, Political

  "Rock Island C.R.R. v. United States, 254 U.S. 141, 143". Judicial opinion, November 22, 1920.

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• I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

  John Fogerty

  Cheating, Cutting, Thinking

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• You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

  Paul Brown

  Next, Knows

  Source: www.missbargainhuntress.com

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  You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Perseverance, Journey, Feet

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• Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Letting Go, Truth, Past

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• Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  World, Stones, Nations

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Penguin

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• Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Cutting, Accepting, Rate

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• "And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

  John Green

  Real, Water, Feelings

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Ambition

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• We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

  Robert Greenwald

  Cutting, Safety, Risk

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

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• There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Writing, People, Community

  "I Am Ozzy". Book by Ozzy Osbourne, 2009.

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• Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

  Pema Chodron

  Crazy, Teaching, Self

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.181, Shambhala Publications

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• There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Love, Garden, Soul

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• I went around the corner to motion pictures.

  Jerry Reed

  Motion Pictures, Around The Corner

  "Jerry Reed dies - country singer, movie actor" by John Gerome, www.sfgate.com. September 3, 2008.

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• Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

  Max Perutz

  Discovery, Puck, Unexpected

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• I'm very interested in trying to make comedy shows that are a bit bigger, more theatrical, more of a "show." Some people might say I'm trying too hard, but that's a compliment to me. I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Two Santa Clauses on the corner. How can you tell the Polish one? The one with the Easter basket.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Easter, Humor

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• You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

  Lauryn Hill

  Home, Space, Light

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• I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.

  Cassandra Clare

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  "Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Diversity has got to be a part of modern feminism, and I think that my feminism is stronger because its an inclusive thing. I won't be backed into a corner that polarizes me against other women. And I wished they wouldn't be either.

  Betty Friedan

  Thinking, Diversity, Feminism

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.

  Al Pacino

  Confused, Real, Dope

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