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• Have you ever thought about why, all over the world, in every culture, in every society, there are a few days in the year for celebration? These few days for celebration are just a compensation - because these societies have taken away all celebration in your life, and if nothing is given to you in compensation, your life can become a danger to the culture. Every culture has to give some compensation to you so that you don't feel completely lost in misery, in sadness. But these compensations are false.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Sadness, Years

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  George Sand

  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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• What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Reading, Book

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• We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.

  Pierre Laval

  Europe, Trying, Holding On

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

  George Gascon

  Death Penalty, Law Enforcement, Possibility

  "S.F's district attorney on the death penalty" by George Gascon, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2011.

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• The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

  Ayn Rand

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Men

  AYN RAND “THE NEW LEFT: THE ANTI-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION”

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• You are given the gifts of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs.

  Jane Roberts

  Law Of Attraction, Reality, Belief

  Jane Roberts, Seth (Spirit), Robert F. Butts (1994). “The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.436, New World Library

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• But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Communication, Technology

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• Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

  Jim Palmer

  Sports, Losing, Palms

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• The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

  Ryuho Okawa

  Inspiration, Bigger, Missions

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• If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

  Robert Breault

  Who I Am, Excuse, Ifs

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• If there's anything better than a God-given talent, it's a God-given day job.

  Robert Breault

  Jobs, Talent, Ifs

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• ... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

  Laini Taylor

  Taken, Healing, Chocolate

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• I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Real, Choices, Doubt

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• I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Fear, Book, Israel

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• The world will not help, the people must help themselves. Its own strength is the source of life. That strength the Almighty has given us to use; that in it and through it, we may wage the battle of our life The others in the past years have not had the blessing of the Almighty - of Him who in the last resort, whatever man may do, holds in His hands the final decision. Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Men, Blessing

  Adolf Hitler's speech on March 3, 1933, as quoted in "The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922 - August 1939" edited by Norman H. Baynes (p. 409), 1969.

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• Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

  Stendhal

  Logical Reasoning, Pieces, Offensive

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You'll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up.And here's some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o'clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig.However, if you care about what you're doing, it's one of the toughest jobs around.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

  Sally Field

  Heart, Broken, Support

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• Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

  Richard Darman

  Reading, Loss, President

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• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

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• He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.

  F.B. Meyer

  Men, Heaven, World

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• ... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Community, Environmental

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  Verne Troyer

  Opportunity, Careers, One Day At A Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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