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• That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heavy while I walked along, swinging my arms?" Your girl? "The kind that respects my wishes," she said. "And my strength, and my... arms." Levi grinned some more. Because he wasn't taking her seriously. "I have a lot of respect for your arms. I like how they're attached to the rest of you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, Wish, Arms

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl: Special Edition”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• Check this out,” Nine says. He holds up a small purple stone and then places it on the back of his hand. The stone slides into his hand—through it. Nine turns his hand over just as the stone pops out in his palm. “Pretty cool, right?” he asks me, waggling his eyebrows. “Uh, but what is it supposed to do?” Eight asks, looking up from his own Chest. “I dunno. Impress girls?” Nine looks over at me. “Did it work?” “Um . . .” I hesitate, trying not to roll my eyes too hard. “Not really. But, I’ve seen guys teleport so I’m kind of hard to impress.” “Tough crowd.

  Pittacus Lore

  Girl, Eye, Purple

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• Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Truth, Special

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• That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.132

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• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Daughter, Time, Son

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

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• Having children-the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings-is the biggest job anyone can embark on. You have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of people for their help and guidance.

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Jobs, Children

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Moving, Wind

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Inspirational, Successful, Two

  "Opinion: Who invited the pirates to the Linux party?" by J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. February 03, 2000.

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• You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Order

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

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• But the great Master said, "I see
  No best in kind, but in degree;
  I gave a various gift to each,
  To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teaching, Learning, Degrees

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.188

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• To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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• It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what's key.

  Sergey Brin

  Business, Ideas, Creating

  "Secrets of a Nimble Giant". Interview with Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.

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• Applying creative thinking to our clients' business strategy-this should be our industry's new core competency. And-in what is very good news for our industry-this kind of creativity, creativity that goes to the heart of business, is more in-demand than ever.

  Bob Schmetterer

  Business, Heart, Creativity

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• There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

  Marvin Bower

  Business, Ethics, Standards

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• Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

  Louis L'Amour

  Change, Fighting, Growth

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The Lonely Men”, p.90, Bantam

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• Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
  Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
  -Gather them now and lay them away
  When Christmas comes.
  Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
  And life is short from beginning to end;
  Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
  When Christmas comes.

  William Haines Lytle

  Christmas, Life Is Short, One Day

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• Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

  Thomas Campion

  Dance, Answers, Break

  'The Third Book of Airs' (1617) no. 7

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• So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.

  Benjamin Harkarvy

  Dance, Ballet, Magic

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• The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Depression, Roots, World

  Interview with Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968.

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• How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

  Barbara Jordan

  Equality, Keys, Creating

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• Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.

  John Denver

  Faith, Compassion, Knowing

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• If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""

  Charles Luckman

  Faith, Men, Two

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• Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Faith, Heart, Simple

  "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" l. 55 (1842)

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• What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we
  should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Sweet

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