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• I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

  Edward Snowden

  Suffering, Government Spying, Information

  "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking", www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

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• The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christian, Catholic, Suffering

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

  Brian Setzer

  Tired, Nashville, Careers

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• We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.

  Jack White

  Passion, Light, Numbers

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• Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Lying, Passion, Next

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• The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time

  Evo Morales

  December, Ends

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• You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is almost obsessive. The English language is rich in strong and supple words. Take the time to root around and find the ones you want

  William Zinsser

  Strong, Roots, Curiosity

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don’t count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

  Twyla Tharp

  Mirrors, White, Dancer

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Blessing, People, House

  "The Work Goes On". Ensign magazine, p. 1, May 2001.

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• The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Quality, Success In Life, Truest

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• Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

  Bill Gates

  Clear Goals, Progress, Human Condition

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• Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.

  Eileen Myles

  Song, Sex, Fall

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• The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Sex, Destiny, Men

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Military, Mean

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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• There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Years, Play

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• The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist's vision.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Artist, Thinking, Long

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• The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

  Ronald Knox

  Humour, Halls, Illiteracy

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• Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

  Daniel Goleman

  People, Empathy, Needs

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.44, Harvard Business Review Press

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• These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the original parable, the bland lead the bland.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Taken, Men, Discipline

  'The Affluent Society' (1958) ch. 1, sect. 3

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Simplicity, Distinction, Truest

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Flames, Tree, Listening

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• Mark my word - A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

  Henry Ford

  Airplane, Car, Combination

  "Soaring Above Traffic In A Flying Car Sooner Than You Think" by Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. December 4, 2007.

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• While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

  Mark Driscoll

  Love, Laughter, Sadness

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

  Keith Miller

  Addiction, Disease, Our Society

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