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• On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

  Ze Frank

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Giving

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• If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.

  Rupert Brooke

  Army, Thinking, Navy

  "The Soldier" l. 1 (1914)

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• Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.

  H. E. Bates

  Girl, Garden, Curves

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• Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

  David Seabury

  Men, Desire, Way

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• Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

  Lester Patrick

  Kids, Hockey, Nhl

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• Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

  Gloria Steinem

  Relationship, Marriage, Married

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• There is one statement I want you to keep after you are finished with this book. It is more of a mantra, really. Nonetheless, let it crawl across your mind any time you feel you have been backed into a corner spiritually. It is very simple: Live your life, no matter what life is. Take that with you. Live your life. No matter what that life is.

  Corey Taylor

  Life, Book, Simple

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• If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Shoes, White

  Msnbc live with Cenk Uygur, www.nbcnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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• The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Journey, Greatness

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.38, Bantam

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• In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Grieving, Doors, House

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mean, Rocks, Opposites

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• In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Running, Play

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• Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Should, Ceremony

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2333, Delphi Classics

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• America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.

  Malcolm X

  Ghetto, Men, Sight

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• Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

  Samuel Adams

  Happiness, Country, Religious

  "American Independence". Speech to the State House in Philadelphia, www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com. August 01, 1776.

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• Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

  Henry Beston

  Nature, Struggle, Forgotten Things

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

  George Sand

  Wisdom, Wall, Men

  "Handsome Lawrence", Chapter II in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 398), 1922.

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• Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.

  Colin Powell

  Loyalty, Integrity, Ego

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• If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Dream, People

  Earvin "Magic" Johnson, William Novak (2012). “My Life”, p.96, Random House

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• The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Imagination, Understanding

  Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their idea.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Cat, Ideas, Dinner

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1988). “The Cat Who Had 14 Tales”, p.2, Penguin

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• A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Giving, Police

  "The Threepenny Opera". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1928.

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• The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Science, Technology, People

  "Weaving the Web". Book by Tim Berners-Lee, 1999.

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• If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Facts, Window

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms”

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