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• And he supposed it might not be the best of days. But then, he was flying the mails and was not expected to squat on the ground like a frightened canary every time there was a cloud in the sky. If a pilot showed an obvious preference for flying only in the best conditions he soon found himself looking for work. This was the way of his life and he had always ascended when others had found excuse to keep their feet on the ground.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Clouds, Sky, Feet

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• The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New York, Washington over the rest of the world. It's hard to get people to join that or think they have a part in it if you called it the Anglo American world empire. If you call it the New World Order, then people in India or some place like that or the European Union might think, "Well, there's something there for us too." But that's not what it is; it's the Anglo American New World Order.

  Alex Jones

  New York, Thinking, Order

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• Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him.

  Clive Palmer

  Sports, Running, Crazy

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• Well, once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it, you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone, then I'll do it, you know.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Past, Long, Age

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Use, Force, Nations

  Scoop (1938) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.

  Michael Shannon

  Crazy, Struggle, People

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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• If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life. If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity. Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate. If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people... If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Life, Nice, Pride

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• Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Country, Children

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• We might sometimes reflect and recall that the purpose of all our science, technology, industry, manufacturing, commerce, and finance is celebration, planetary celebration. This is what moves the stars through the heavens and the earth through its seasons. The final norm of judgment concerning the success or failure of our technologies is the extent to which they enable us to participate more fully in this grand festival.

  Thomas Berry

  Life, Stars, Moving

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• Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Enemy

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• Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Heart

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• The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Love does not ask many questions, because with thinking comes fear. This might be the fear of being scorned, of being rejected, or of breaking the spell. However ridiculous this may seem, that is how it is. This is why one does not ask, one acts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Thinking

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• An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Inspiration

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• Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

  Paulo Coelho

  Today, Torn, Equal

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 19, 2014

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• It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Warning, Incredibles, Omen

  Jorge Luis Borges (1962). “Ficciones”, p.90, Grove Press

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• Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

  P. D. James

  Years, Care, Soil

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• A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

  Eric Ambler

  Promise, Spy, Half

  Eric Ambler (2009). “The mask of Dimitrios”, Penguin Classics

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• Seems the seance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV last year attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose.

  Derren Brown

  Years, Twenties, Add

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

  Frederick Douglass

  Long, Rose, Forever

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.

  Ken Follett

  Real, Character, Historical

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

  Jeffery Deaver

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge: A Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

  Amos Tversky

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.

  Steven Levitt

  Book, Simple, Ideas

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