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• It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

  Learned Hand

  Life, Success, Stuff

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• The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Real, Light, Purpose

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• Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fire, Light, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.132, Penguin

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• Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character. Which makes the big decisions.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Choices, Decision

  Elizabeth George (2011). “A Woman's High Calling: 10 Ways to Live Out God's Plan for Your Life”, p.171, Harvest House Publishers

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• Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body. As though doing no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible mold.

  Jo Nesbo

  Real, Cancer, Exercise

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• Formats are just illusions, and it's about the relationship between the person that makes music and the person that listens to music. Every time there's a new format, the iron is hot, and you can mold it.

  Bjork

  Iron, Hot, Illusion

  "Bjork: 15 Years". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. August 15, 2011.

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• All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Heart, Broken

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The minute we begin to think we know all the answers, we forget all the questions and we become like the pharisee who listed all his considerable virtues, and thanked God that he was not like other men.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Mean, Artist

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• Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, ...Only shooting stars break the mold.

  Greg Camp

  Stars, Games, Personality

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• Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Fire, Hammers, Praise

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• But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.

  John Ankerberg

  Order, Doe, Culture

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.

  Cobie Smulders

  Girlfriend, Men, Thinking

  "Cobie Smulders: My DOs & DON'Ts of Being a Guys' Girl". www.glamour.com. June 19, 2012.

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• There's no Asian [vocalist] that's huge out there. So I want to do that. I want to break that mold.

  Jasmine Trias

  Asian, Want, Break

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• Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.

  Judy Chicago

  Moon, Artist, Shapes

  Judy Chicago (2006). “THROUGH THE FLOWER: My Struggle as A Woman Artist”, p.71, iUniverse

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• A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

  Bill Robinson

  Teaching, Perfect, Guy

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• It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

  Michael Vick

  Sports, Commitment, Thinking

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• The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

  Robert Griffin III

  Football, Nfl, Trying

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• Earth Is Enough. We men of Earth have here the stuff Of Paradise - we have enough! We need no other stones to build The Temple of the Unfulfilled - No other ivory for the doors - No other marble for the floors - No other cedar for the beam And dome of man's immortal dream. Here on the paths of every-day - Here on the common human way Is all the stuff the gods would take To build a Heaven, to mold and make New Edens. Ours is the stuff sublime To build Eternity in time!

  Edwin Markham

  Dream, Men, Doors

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• The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care, until Christ is ''fully formed'' in us... Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us?

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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• Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a part of our being. The problem is that we try to find that here. And so we create ageless creams and cosmetic surgery in a desperate attempt to hold on-in an attempt to mold this world into what it is not, and will never be.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Home, Land

  "Depending on God" by Yasmin Mogahed, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2011.

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• A mother's love is everything, Jared. It is what brings a child into this world. It is what molds their entire being. When a mother sees her child in danger, she is literally capable of anything. Mother have lifted cars off of their children, and destroyed entire dynasties. A mother's love is the strongest energy known to man. You must that love, and it's power.

  Jamie McGuire

  Mother, Children, Love Is

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• The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

  Jane Heller

  Character, Giving, Energy

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• I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Leadership, Genuine, Bases

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• Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Teaching, Responsibility, Preparation

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wise, Men, Hands

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