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• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Sarcastic, Pain, Sarcasm

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• I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

  Mos Def

  Space, Giving, Littles

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

  Helen Fielding

  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

  Brian Greene

  Wonder, Boundaries, Crosses

  "Sunday Q&A: Physicist seeks truth about cosmos". Interview With Eric Berger, www.chron.com. September 27, 2009.

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• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

  Stanislav Grof

  Vision, Encounters, Transition

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• I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  "Joan Jett: What I've Learned". Interview with A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. October 13, 2009.

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• I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'

  Jude Law

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

  Annie Lennox

  Age, Skins, Life Is

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• Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.

  Samuel Lover

  Lying, Mind, Littles

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.355

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• I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

  John Lydon

  People, Brain, Wake Up

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• The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Moving, Writing, Family Guy

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Agriculture, Goal, Democracy

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• As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Faces, Information

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• The Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore it’s important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.

  Nicole Richie

  Winter, House, Important

  "Nicole Richie Grows Up". "Interview Magazine" Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 3, 2010.

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• It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

  Jean Rostand

  Teacher, Hard Work, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.

  Robert Schumann

  Art, Play, Musician

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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• My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

  Steven Seagal

  Kindness, Philosophy, Light

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• I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Kids, Thinking, People

  "Diary of a TV Killer: Sarah Silverman". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 16, 2010.

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• I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Writing, Breathing

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.3, Beacon Press

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• As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Struggle

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.68, New World Library

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• All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Oct 25, 2012

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• The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Moving, Risk

  "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road". Book by Paul Theroux, May 19, 2011.

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• The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Past, Ideas, Unpredictable

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Heart, Eye, Men

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