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Have we been guilty of declaring, 'I've been thinking about making some course corrections in my life. I plan to take the first step-tomorrow'? With such thinking, tomorrow is forever. Such tomorrows rarely come unless we do something about them today.

Thomas S. Monson

Thinking, Forever, Firsts

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In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nurse, People, Kind

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The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous.. and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, noting less.. His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that.. unless, of course, he noticed her noticing.

Julie Garwood

Sexy, Hair, Nurse

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"Girl, are you on medication?" Nurse Debra asked."No, of course not," Madison answered impatiently."Maybe you should be," Debra muttered.

Kerrelyn Sparks

Girl, Nurse, Medication

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This is why I didn't get married last year," she said to him. "I wouldn't be here to nurse you." She thought about that for a moment. "Of course, one could make the argument that you wouldn't be in this situation if not for me. But we're not going to dwell upon that.

Julia Quinn

Years, Nurse, Lasts

Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.156, Harlequin

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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.

Sebastian Barry

Fate, Names, Nurse

Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

Courtney Milan

Hands, Nurse, Employment

Courtney Milan (2011). “Unveiled”, p.25, HQN Books

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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

Anthony Trollope

Mother, Nursing, Nurse

Anthony Trollope (1866). “Doctor Thorne. A Novel. 9th Ed”, p.27

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Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless, of course, the aggressive, hostile, assaultive sound actually served to express some impulse of the owner.

Philip Slater

Attitude, Successful, Feelings

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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

Truman Capote

Directors, Actors, Literature

Truman Capote (2013). “Portraits and Observations”, p.271, Modern Library

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I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.

Betty Ford

Golf, Swimming, Empty Life

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Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Harold S. Kushner

Fun, Dessert, Main Course

Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

Albert Ellis

Attachment, People, Detachment

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The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.

Travis Walton

Truth, People, Billions

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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

Ted Olson

Taken, Airplane, Two

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If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world and, therefore, it is not possible for me to speak of ethics. Of course, this assumption of responsibility does not mean that we are not conditioned genetically, culturally, and socially. It means that we know ourselves to be conditioned but not determined.

Paulo Freire

Determination, Mean, Responsibility

Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

David Cronenberg

Thinking, Agony, Spiders

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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

Ann Patchett

Grief, Believe, Book

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I exhort you, press on in your course, and exhort all men that they may be saved.

Polycarp

Men, May, Saved

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A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Barack Obama

Dream, Children, Work Ethic

"U.S. Agriculture Secretary 'Convinced' Rural Revitalization Plan Will Work". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 15, 2014.

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A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

Deepak Chopra

Events, Shapes, Our Lives

Deepak Chopra (1996). “The Return of Merlin”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Tina Turner

Legacy, Ends

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In order to create you have to believe in your ability to do so and that often means excluding whole chunks of normal life, and, of course, pumping yourself up as much as possible as a way of keeping on. Sort of cheering for yourself in the great football stadium of life."

(Barnes & Noble Review, email dialogue with Cameron Martin, Feb. 09, 2009)

T.C. Boyle

Football, Cheer, Believe

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Life is not fair, so why should I make a course that is fair.

Pete Dye

Life Is, Should, Fairs

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The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

Confucius

Distance, Golf, Two

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