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• Everybody's trying to leave their mark on the world. That's why there's graffiti and babies.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Projects, Away From You, Humans

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• The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Men, Views

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• Is not this steadfastness to mark, to make, the character of your lives? Is it not God's will that we should press steadily on to our goal in obedience to Him, in channels of His choosing, whether in sunshine or shadow, in the cheer of spring or in the chill of winter, neither detained by pleasure nor deterred by pain?

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Cheer, Pain, Spring

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Past, Empowering, Pathways

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• To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Greek, World

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

  Philip James Bailey

  Intellectual, Excellence, Quality

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• The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

  A. B. Simpson

  Men, Hands, Fellow Man

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.46, Moody Publishers

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• To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.

  Laurene Powell Jobs

  Thinking, Important, Way

  "Excerpts From Laurene Powell Jobs’ First Interview Since The Death Of Steve Jobs". Interview with Brian Williams, techcrunch.com. April 12, 2013.

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• A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Lying, Effort, Insecurity

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• To be alive means to live in a world that proceeded one’s own arrival and will survive one’s own departure. On this level of sheer being alive, appearance and disappearance, as they follow upon each other, are the primordial events, which as such mark out time, the time span between birth and death.

  Hannah

  Mean, Events, Alive

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• There are many marks of a true lady but I believe that one of them is to walk with her head held high while her world falls apart around her.

  Hester Browne

  Believe, Fall, World

  Hester Browne (2007). “The Little Lady Agency”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words!

  Sakura Tsukuba

  Love You, One Day

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• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith into a cohesive yet highly idiosyncratic literary history. Each page affords sparkling facts and valuable insights onto the manufacturing of books and reputations, the keeping and revealing of secrets, the vagaries of private life and public opinion, and the eternally mysterious, often tormented interface between life and literature.

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Secret, Public Opinion

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• I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

  Euan Uglow

  Brain, Want, Observation

  Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.52, Yale University Press

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• The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

  Bram Cohen

  Realizing, Mature, Code

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• My friend Ray Comfort has produced a powerful piece of media that leaves a lasting mark on your heart and mind. '180' is 33 minutes of video adrenaline, shock, and hope. As defenders of the unborn and messengers of the Gospel of Life, we need to see this video and share it with as many people as we can.

  Kirk Cameron

  Powerful, Heart, Media

  FaceBook post by Kirk Cameron from Sep 28, 2011

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• At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Advent, Christ

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• You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

  Angelo Sotira

  Opportunity, Live For Today, Alive

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• The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

  Philip Yancey

  God, Christian, Religious

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.237, Harper Collins

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• I never thought I'd be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I've undertaken I've never quite made the mark. But I've always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

  Vera Wang

  Disappointment, Successful, Mind

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• The mark of a master is to select only a few moments, but give us a lifetime.

  Robert McKee

  Giving, Moments, Lifetime

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Genius, Talent, Difficult

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• A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ becomes greater and greater as time goes on.

  Theodore Austin-Sparks

  Life, Christian, Time

  Theodore Austin-Sparks (2011). “The School of Christ”, p.5, Book Ministry

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