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• I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

  Chris Offutt

  Home, Long, World

  Chris Offutt (2003). “The Same River Twice: A Memoir”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

  Francine Prose

  Thinking, Literature, Strange

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• We planted the church by starting a Sunday night outreach. The very first Sunday we had 70 people turn up. The second week, there were 60, the third week, 53, and by the fourth week, 45. I've often joked that we worked it out at the time- we had only four and a half weeks left until there were no more people. It was about that time that we had our first ever commitment to Christ. We outgrew the school hall after 12 months. The crowds were so big that we were using road-case as the platform, and what should have been the stage as a balcony so that we could fit more people in.

  Brian Houston

  School, Commitment, Sunday

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• Students of the psychedelic realm know that one's expectations are a powerful determinant of the direction, content, and outcome of the experience. So, we should say at the outset that the experiences recounted here were preceded by careful preparation, where the trip was presented as a learning experience and a process of self-discovery. They all took place in safe, supportive environments. They generally did not fit the stereotypical model of teenagers dropping acid at a rock concert, looking for awesome visuals and good vibes.

  Rick Doblin

  Powerful, Teenager, Dropping Acid

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• Honestly, if you don’t fit in, then you’re probably doing the right thing.

  Lights

  Honestly, Ifs, Doing The Right Thing

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• Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I know I can be at my desk by 10.15am and I can even fit in a workout before rehearsals. Power Plate® exercise is not at all intimidating, and I know that in a short session I have had a complete workout.

  Maureen Lipman

  Workout, Exercise, Training

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• I can't afford to step away from acting, but the one thing I've learnt after all these years is that I don't fit in. It's very difficult to be at the mercy of other people's whims and visions.

  Paddy Considine

  Years, People, Vision

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• I like Yorkshire terriers. They're good to wash your car with. They fit right in the bucket.

  Billiam Coronel

  Car, Buckets, Yorkshire

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• Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living. If Ladakh now succeeds in creating for itself a future which retains the foundations of its traditional past, it will be an inspiring example of how all the various elements of an ecological future fit together.

  Helena

  Past, Creating, Together

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• Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Way Forward, Poverty, Size

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.158, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

  Joe Budden

  Trying, Standing Out

  Song: Hiatus, Album: Halfway House, 2008

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• No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Writing, Cutting, Years

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit singledom as our natural resting state...Secretly, we are romantics, romantics of the highest order. We want a miracle. Out of millions we have to find the one who will understand. For the quirkyalone, there is no patience for dating just for the sake of not being alone. On a fine but by no means transcendent date, we dream of going home to watch television. We would prfer to be alone with our own thoughts than with a less than perfect fit...but when the quirkyalone collides with another, ooh la la. The earth quakes.

  Sasha Cagen

  Dream, Mean, Home

  "Original Essay" by Sasha Cagen, quirkyalone.net. July 2000.

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• We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a world where proms and marriage define the social order, we are, by force of our personalities and inner strength, rebels.

  Sasha Cagen

  Order, Personality, Inner Strength

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• Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.

  Ian Hogarth

  Exercise, Ideas, People

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• So, if you don’t fit in, if you feel at odds with the world, if your identity is troubled and frayed, if you feel lost and ashamed - it could be because you have retained the human values you were supposed to have discarded. You are a deviant. Be proud.

  George Monbiot

  Odds, Identity, World

  "Sick of this market-driven world? You should be" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Compared to their sense of smell, dogs seem to pay a lot less attention to their sense of taste. Apparently they believe that if something fits into their mouths, then it is food, no matter what it tastes like.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Believe, Smell

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• The most important force inside you for feeling better all the time is the will to get more fit.

  Jeff Galloway

  Feel Better, Feelings, Important

  Jeff Galloway (2008). “Running: Getting Started”, p.21, Meyer & Meyer Verlag

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• Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.

  Randall Munroe

  Brain, Scales, Just One

  "xkcd (Connoisseur)". Webcomic by Randall Munroe, www.explainxkcd.com. (May 29, 2005 - ).

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• Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

  Paul Auster

  Careers, Doctors, Long

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.247, Faber & Faber

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• Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one of you cracks or stops existing.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Reflection, Trying, Dolls

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• You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Needs, Slavery, Cannons

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Squares, Tree, Taoism

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “365 Tao: Daily Meditations”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

  Eric Liu

  Numbers, Asian, Minorities

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• Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, Fire, Facts

  "Twelve Virtues Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, yudkowsky.net. 2006.

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