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Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

Stanley Wolpert

Creating, Jinnah, Three

"Jinnah of Pakistan". Book by Stanley Wolpert, 1984.

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My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

Leah Stewart

Father, People, Stories

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Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

Diana Vreeland

Mad, Ballet

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I like setting up problems for the viewer, like how do you visually deal with a ring when what’s usually in the center of a painting is very important? It's like the main course isn't there and you're having to deal with everything around what would normally be the main course.

Robert Mangold

Important, Painting, Problem

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Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

Mary Wesley

Fun, Risk, Doe

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The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

John Owen

World, Compromise, Sin

John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.343

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What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.

David S. Baxter

Real, Adversity, Blow

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I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all.

Nora Ephron

Writing, Thinking, Paper

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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Benjamin Disraeli

Reading, Age, Novelty

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For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Watts

Art, Accomplishment, Perfect

Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.32, New World Library

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Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, a term meaning Path or Way, but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism.

Jan Jakob Maria de Groot

Heaven, Taoism, Peculiar

Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1892). “The Religious System of China: Its Ancient Forms, Evolution, History and Present Aspects, Manners, Custom and Social Institutions Connected Therewith”, p.66, Brill Archive

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What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.

Jian Yang

Mean, Taoism, Development

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Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world.

Alan Watts

Writing, Men, Names

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When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.

Don Roff

Fun, Writing, Naked

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One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic - something or other which we do not possess. Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go. You decide to learn a language, study music, take a course of reading, train yourself physically. Will it be success or failure? It depends upon how much pluck and perseverance that word decide contains. The decision that nothing can overrule, the grip that nothing can detach will bring success.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Letting Go, Perseverance, Mistake

Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make—and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

John P. Kotter

Smart, Intelligent, Two

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To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !

Mikhail Naimy

Pain, Prey, Live By

Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.115, Duncan Baird Publishers

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It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.

François Lelord

Adventure, Successful, Thinking

François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books

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Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence.

Colman McCarthy

Children, School, Giving

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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

Will Cuppy

Ideas, Novelists, Care

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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.

Will Cuppy

Home, Cobras, Rats

"How to Become Extinct". Book by Will Cuppy, 1941.

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Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

A.C. Grayling

Winning, Two, People

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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

Lafcadio Hearn

Ideas, Effort, Generations

Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.156, tredition

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We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

Pat Paulsen

Pondering, Riot, Supervillains

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Hector Hugh Munro

Food, Childhood, Wish

Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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