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• Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Aging, Hours, Finest

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• But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Long, Age

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.316

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• Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Ocean, Home, Science

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• I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

  Keith Richards

  Bullying, Moving, School

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• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

  Marya Mannes

  Ethics, Morality, Indifference

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Mistake, Errors, Hands

  Thorstein Veblen (1965). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.115, Transaction Publishers

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• The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Experience, World

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• Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

  Aesop

  Wine, Vintage, Spirituality

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• Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Pieces

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

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• There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fun, Men, Serenity

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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Long, Stupidity

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• God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Grace, Wish

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1990). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Nelson Thornes

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• The cat always leaves a mark on his friend.

  Aesop

  Cat

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• A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

  Louis MacNeice

  Cat, Grace, Tails

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.425, Faber & Faber

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• I wish I could remember the first day,
  First hour, first moment of your meeting me;
  If bright or dim the season it might be;
  Summer or winter for aught I can say.
  So, unrecorded did it slip away,
  So blind was i to see and to forsee,
  So dull to mark the budding of my tree
  That would not blossom, yet, for many a May.

  Christina Rossetti

  Summer, Famous Love, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Selected Poems: Rossetti: Rossetti”, p.192, Penguin UK

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• Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Running, Risk, Atheism

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1643, Manonmani Publishers

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• Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  True Friend, Love Is, Men

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

  Paul de Man

  Desire, Wipe, Departure

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• No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

  Corra May Harris

  Inspirational, Tombstone, Dollars

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• Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Animal, Men

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Truth, Mind

  "Time to rise to the challenge of social impact measurement" by Jeremy Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2013.

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• To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

  Frank A. Clark

  Christian, Sorry, Feelings

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• The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Blow, Suffering

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