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• RIE emphasizes the benefits of infants spending peaceful, uninterrupted time following their biological rhythms of falling asleep when sleepy and eating when hungry, rather than their having to adjust too soon to external schedules and unrealistic expectations. First, we have to let the child develop his own rhythm; and then later he can adjust more into adult life.

  Magda Gerber

  Children, Fall, Expectations

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• I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Done, Littles

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.142

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, Voice, People

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Children, Self, Ends

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• [on the screenplay for "When Harry Met Sally"] It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.

  Nora Ephron

  Movie, Weekend, Optimism

  The Los Angeles Times Interview, July 27, 1989.

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• Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wings, Reason, Senses

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

  Clara Zetkin

  Two, Competition, Males

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• But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Teacher, Jesus, Love Is

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• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  Leroy Chiao

  Russia, Interesting, Chinese

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• I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

  Beverley Nichols

  Taken, Cutting, Garden

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• In the Third World, honk your horn only under the following circumstances: 1. When anything blocks the road. 2. When anything doesn't. 3. When anything might. 4. At red lights. 5. At green lights. 6. At all other times.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Block, Light, World

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.209, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Long, Way

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  John Howe

  Art, Real, School

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• You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks that you might be tired; if you are nervous; if you are gay; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you feel like it; if you do not feel like it; if you have had no tea for some time; if you have just had a cup.

  George Mikes

  Home, Tired, Gay

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• In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Mind, Tudors, Lines

  Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”

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• The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence. It can only be understood as a self-contradiction, made possible by the fact of his freedom but not following necessarily from it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Self, Essence

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1996). “The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature”, p.17, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

  Rick Mercer

  Growing Up, Opposites, Political

  "'Canadian Jon Stewart' Explains Thanksgiving". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 9, 2010.

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• If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.

  Maureen Howard

  Family, Children, Father

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• I try to always go for something... very interior, following thoughts and memories, something that I think is difficult to do on the screen, which is essentially a third-person medium.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Thinking, Trying

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• I've had people say to me, 'Look at the sky, the fields, the ocean, the beautiful sunset. Isn't that proof positive of God?' Following that line of thought, look at the magnificent rainbows after a big rainstorm. Isn't that proof positive that God is gay?

  Ray Romano

  Beautiful, God, Ocean

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• "Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; They govern what we become as we do it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Stars, Destiny, Hands

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• Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.

  Lee Lozowick

  Learning, Method, Spite

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• We cannot fail in following nature.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Failing

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1084, 谷月社

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• For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fall, Old Habits, Mad

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• As with any other great force of nature, there is both glory and danger in the stories we tell ourselves. Some are toxic and keep our problems festering. Others are tonic and bring us beyond the limitations of our previous history. To be in a life of our own definition, we must be able to discover which stories we are following and determine which ones help us grow the most interesting possibilities.

  Dawna Markova

  Interesting, Toxic, Stories

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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