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• Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Dresses, Saint, Modesty

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Anxiety, Insecurity

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

  Gary Cole

  Years, Car, Needs

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• The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Differences, Silence, Community

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Loss, Different, Firsts

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• It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  World, Impossible To Forget, Dignity

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• As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Archer, Men, Hands

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• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Appeals, Universal

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

  Alan Bennett

  Taken, Civilization, Safety

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• Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

  Mel Torme

  Careers, Two, Giving

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• Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

  Max Weber

  Bears, Artistic, Type

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.151, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

  Pope Leo I

  Mother, Peace, Children

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• I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Believe, Destiny, Drawing

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moon, Historical, Railroads

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1983). “Ronald Reagan”

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• You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

  Linus Torvalds

  Wall, Clever, Mistake

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• Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that's why I made works of art.

  Felix Gonzalez-Torres

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Félix González-Torres, Tim Rollins, Susan Cahan, Jan Avgikos (1993). “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, A R T Pr

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• Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

  William Morris Hunt

  Simple, Squares, Giving

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• The blood of the lamb applied over the doorpost on the night of Israel's deliverance from Egypt distinguished the obedient from the disobedient. Just so today the applied blood of the Lamb of God is the distinguishing mark of God's called out ones, the church.

  Billy Graham

  Night, Israel, Egypt

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• The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

  Jacques Barzun

  Dog, Fables, Necks

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  Hal Holbrook

  Defined

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• A woman's heart always has a burned mark.

  Louise Labe

  Heart, Burned

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• Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

  John Major

  Jobs, Dollars, Pounds

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

  Anthony Quinn

  Thinking, Rhode Island, Islands

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 1996.

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