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• My name was originally John Collins, but I just didn't think it had the flair I needed. I found out the poet laureate of Poland was named Krasinski and so it seemed like a shoe-in for show business.

  John Krasinski

  Thinking, Names, Shoes

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• I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.

  James Mace

  Country, Simple, Ukraine

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• Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

  Kenny Smith

  Needs, Sake, Clarity

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• Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, Others Happiness, Years

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.151, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wisdom, Mankind, Interest

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.626, JHU Press

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• Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with nature, in friendship with creatures. That becomes the foundation. And only on that foundation can you base your prayer, your meditativeness. You can watch it in yourself: when you eat meat, meditation will be found to be more and more difficult.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Men, Vegetarianism

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• I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

  Arthur Symons

  Dream, Venice, Impossible

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• Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Night, Phones, Ideas

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• Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.

  Chris Kilham

  Fire, Medicine, People

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• When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Religious

  Max Lucado (2012). “Just Like Jesus Devotional: A Thirty-Day Walk With the Savior”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

  Joseph Addison

  Luxury, Vices, Ancient

  "The Works of Joseph Addison".

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• When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, Example, Chess

  "About Art, Chess, Beauty and Depth, Creativity, Telepathy and Artificial Intelligence". Interview with Ugo Dossi, en.chessbase.com. December 21, 2005.

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• [At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very much interested in what they were doing, and they left me alone. And I was able to experiment on my own, and I found this very stimulating. It appealed to the creative person in me.

  Stephanie Kwolek

  Science, Men, Discovery

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

  Randy Couture

  Shapes, Easy, Lifestyle

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• Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

  Davey Havok

  Drug Use, Practice, People

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• Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.

  Jan Karon

  Appreciation, Loneliness, Heart

  Jan Karon (2011). “Jan Karons Mitford Years: The First Five Novels”, p.643, Penguin

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• Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.

  Jacques Hadamard

  Math, Civilization, Progress

  Jacques Hadamard (1954). “An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Math, Choices, Merit

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• It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

  George Santayana

  Song, Art, Math

  George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• . . . in the final analysis, virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence . . .

  Vincent de Paul

  Finals, Analysis, Virtue

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• Daniel! Luce said. He looks-Different and also precisely the same? Bill asked.Yes.That's his soul you recognize. Regardless of how you two may look on the outside, you'll alwaysknow each other's souls.It hadn't occurred to Luce until now how remarkable it was that she recognized Daniel in every life.Her soul found his. That's ... beautiful.

  Lauren Kate

  Beautiful, Two, Soul

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.963, Delacorte Press

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• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Sea, Feet

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.134, Delphi Classics

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• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  Roger Waters

  Running, Pain, War

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