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• Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant, that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Vegetables, Next

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

  Kirk Douglas

  Advantage, Anti Semitic, I Can

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• You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Religious, Atheist, Perfect

  Harold S. Kushner (2003). “The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm”, p.67, Anchor

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• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  Fannie Flagg

  Children, Good Life, Years

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.456, Random House

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• I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

  Marie Osmond

  Safe, Way, Environment

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• Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

  John Major

  Regret, Voice, Feet

  John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

  John Major

  Lying, Moving, Mean

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• There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

  Woody Guthrie

  Speak Your Mind, Healthy, Singing

  Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

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• At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Sarcastic, Father, Night

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• Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

  Mira Sorvino

  Feels, Know How, Knows

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• The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Fighting, Men, People

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• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Illusion, Phenomenon, Humans

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.269, Penguin

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• I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

  Terry Eagleton

  Stupid, Thinking, Ideas

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• In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

  Augusto Roa Bastos

  Men, Humanity, States

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• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  Vash Young

  Rivers, Helpful, Loud

  Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Mean, Life And Death

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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• I've just found out there are pages on the internet dedicated to whether I'm gay or not.

  Matthew Perry

  Gay, Pages, Internet

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• There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

  Kathy Ireland

  Birth Control, Argument, Existence

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• In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

  Richard Cobden

  Religious, Body, Instruction

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.574

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• Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Way, Form, Certain

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• I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

  Joy Baluch

  Bangs, Tables, Manners

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• We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

  Evan Davis

  Light, Track, Lasts

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• I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

  Mariah Carey

  Nice, Different, Void

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• One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

  George Carey

  Believe, Issues, Ministry

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• I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

  Alberto Salazar

  Running, Athlete, Race

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

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