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• Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Running, Teenage

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.24, Vintage

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• What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

  Jean Anouilh

  Fun, Long, Would Be

  Jean Anouilh (1952). “Ring Round the Moon”, p.40, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Successful, Creative

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• Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Accomplishment, Goal

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 19, 2012

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• Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

  Storm Jameson

  Speak The Truth, Draws

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.92, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact.

  Lilian Whiting

  Spiritual, Attitude, Lying

  Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”

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• The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

  Abraham Maslow

  Loss, Discovery, Identity

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.

  Jane Goodall

  Love, Empowering, Emotion

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• Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.

  Joseph Campbell

  Vocabulary, Coercion, Reason

  Joseph Campbell (1968). “The Masks of God: Creative Mythology”

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• Falling for him would be like cliff diving. It would be either the most exhilarating thing that ever happened to me or the stupidest mistake I'd ever make.

  Colleen Houck

  Falling In Love, Mistake, Romance

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• It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one is working on a teaspoon or a national bank.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Sound, May, Creation

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• The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

  Frank Smith

  Teacher, Teaching, Students

  Frank Smith (1986). “Insult to Intelligence: The Bureaucratic Invasion of Our Classrooms”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• I believe in the runner's high, and I believe that those who are passionate about running are the ones who experience it to the fullest degree possible. To me, the runner's high is a sensational reaction to a great run! It's an exhilarating feeling of satisfaction and achievement. It's like being on top of the world, and truthfully... there's nothing else quite like it!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Running, Believe, Exhilarating Feeling

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• Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read.

  Vince Flynn

  Spring, Heart, Night

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• Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.

  Sabina Murray

  Wise, Dream, Book

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• When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Forget Everything, Giving

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• Although the way ahead [for immunology] is full of pitfalls and difficulties, this is indeed an exhilarating prospect. There is no danger of a shortage of forthcoming excitement in the subject. Yet, as always, the highlights of tomorrow are the unpredictabilities of today.

  Cesar Milstein

  Science, Pitfalls, Today

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• Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Balance, Ponies

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• Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election!

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Fate, Winning, Awards

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• Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving new meaning to the established JFK chronology, hes created a brand new one altogether.Surrounded by Enemiesis an exhilarating ride, full of twists and turns that never were, but surely could have been.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Nbc, Sky, Giving

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• If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Evil, Trying

  "Thus Spake Stallman". Slashdot Interview, news.slashdot.org. May 1, 2000.

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• The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

  William C. Rhoden

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• My first big show was with Tim McGraw and Mark Chesnutt, and that was overwhelming. There was probably 25,000 people there. I was nervous, (but it) was exhilarating.

  Lee Ann Womack

  People, Firsts, Nervous

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• It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York.

  Jacki Weaver

  New York, People, Choices

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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