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• I have learned that part of the formula for success is to keep quiet about your objective until you get it. Just as the universe is filled with positive energy waiting to join your own, there is also destructive energy emanating from people who do not like you.

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  People, Waiting, Positive Energy

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• There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Government, Feelings, Insecurity

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• Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

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• There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Work, Secret

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.8

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• Needed are...[souls] filled with compassion, that we might communicate not only eye to eye, or voice to ear, but in the majestic style of the Savior, even heart to heart.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Heart, Eye, Compassion

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• I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

  Brian Andreas

  Flower, Dark, Garden

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• 'Good as Gone' goes from zero to 60 in under six seconds and never lets off the gas! If you like your thrillers filled with nonstop action in a race against time through Europe's underbelly, hop in and take a ride.

  Andrew Gross

  Zero, Race, Europe

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• Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth by falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages. A peace will equally leave the warrior and the relater of wars destitute of employment; and I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lie.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Lying, Soldier

  The Idler no. 30 (11 Nov. 1758)

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• I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going.

  Michael Lewis

  Writing, Self, Loathing

  "Magic and Self-Loathing in Berkeley: Michael Lewis on Becoming a Writer". Interview with Alicia Whitaker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.

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• Every season is filled with lessons.

  Brian Houston

  Lessons, Seasons

  Twitter post from Jul 08, 2015

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• My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Land, Ideas, Feminist

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• If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Wall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.244

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• The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Giving, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Christian, Prayer, Light

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• There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

  Philip II of Macedon

  Horse, Wall, Gold

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• The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Strength, Determination

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• For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.

  Dave Barry

  Dad, Father, Appreciate

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
  matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Artist, Symphony

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Jan 01, 2017

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• The Word of God spoke into the dry bones. His breath filled them, put tendons (repair), and put skin on...Then you will know I am God...When Jesus comes that will happen.

  Louie Giglio

  Jesus, Dry Bones, Skins

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• Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

  Squidward Tentacles

  Misery, Life Is, Minutes

  "Fictional character: Squidward". "SpongeBob SquarePants: Club SpongeBob/My Pretty Seahorse", m.imdb.com. 2002.

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• I'm filled with a new joy mixed with old grief.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Grief, Joy

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• Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

  Sergio Zyman

  Home, People, Focus

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• Yanagihara's most impressive trick is the way she glides from scenes filled with those terrifying hyenas to moments of epiphany. 'Wasn't it a miracle to have survived the unsurvivable? Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn't this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?' A Little Life devotes itself to answering those questions, and is, in its own dark way, a miracle.

  Marion Winik

  Lonely, Dark, Miracle

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