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• We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

  Jack Kornfield

  Confused, Reality, Light

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• I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Order, Safety

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe there are many soul mates, because my soul has a lot of different facets and it needs a lot of different.

  Cameron Diaz

  Believe, Soul, Different

  "Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Kate Upton, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Talk THE OTHER WOMAN, Their Chemistry on Set, the Rating, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 22, 2014.

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• What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.

  Betty Sue Flowers

  Leadership, Science, Different

  Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.212, Crown Business

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• We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.

  Barry Leiba

  Integrity, Two Sides, White

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• Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Equality, Light, Views

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• Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Learning

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• It may be just one facet of your personality, or it may not even be a facet but only a pretension. You can show this false face with no problem when sometimes you meet on a sea beach, sometimes in a garden, sometimes under the moon and the stars, but when you really start living together then the reality starts surfacing. The real person is a hell and all that sweet talk that had happened under the stars becomes just lies.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Beach, Sweet

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• One of the primary services the arts can render to theology is their integrative power, their ability to interrelate the intellect with the other facets of our human makeup.

  Jeremy Begbie

  Art, Makeup, Ability

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• There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Government, Action

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.

  Jack Kornfield

  Responsibility, Mind, World

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• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

  Helen Keller

  Eye, Use, Tomorrow

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• The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.

  Linda Lavin

  Writing, Play, Long

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• Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

  Pat Summerall

  Player, Succeed, Broadcasting

  "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview with Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.

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• Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

  Chuck Barris

  Spontaneity, Shows, Show Business

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• There's two facets to writing a song. There's you sitting in your room writing the sentiments of the song; the lyrics, the melody and the changes, and then there's the part where you go into the studio and you put clothing on it.

  Nuno Bettencourt

  Song, Writing, Two

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• The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

  Scott D. Cook

  Revolution, Financial, Changing Nature

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• Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

  Emanuel Celler

  Men, Personality, Challenges

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

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• People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?'

  Eric Kripke

  Crazy, Character, People

  "Creator Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, How It’s Different from SUPERNATURAL, and Ideas for Future Seasons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 16, 2012.

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• Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Children, Dark

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• The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

  Ann Voskamp

  Want, Condemnation, Remedy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.149, Zondervan

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• In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Crystals, Consciousness, Awakened

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• I know when I like to go see a show, I like to see people show as many different facets of themselves as they can, because I think that's the fun of it.

  Jason Graae

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• We were outplayed in every facet of the game

  Michael Clarke

  Games

  Michael Clarke (2015). “Ashes Diary 2015”, p.46, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

  Audre Lorde

  Loyal, May, Oppression

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