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• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  Victor Francis Hess

  Rays, Investigation, Interest

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• The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

  William Bartram

  Travel, Journey, May

  William Bartram (1792). “Travels Through North and South Carolina: Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges Or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. ... Embellished with Copper-plates”, p.8

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• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Peace, Volcanoes, Feminism

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.160, Grove Press

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• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Confusion, Confusing

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

  Francesca Annis

  Jobs, Want Something, Waiting

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• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

  Hosea Ballou

  Life, Godly, Practice

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• There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

  Jello Biafra

  Guy, Doe, Band

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K.: Originally ran in Razorcake #08, 2002". Interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, razorcake.org. 2002.

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• Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

  Moshe Dayan

  Aggravation, Advice, Arms

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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

  James Dean

  Order, Feet, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Advice

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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• Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

  Nicole Kidman

  Birthday, Missing, Age

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jul 17, 2012

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• The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Humorous, Drinking, Memorable

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• However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

  Norman MacCaig

  Offering, Bird, Literature

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• Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Power, Men, Expression

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.181, Columbia University Press

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• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Kids, Giving, Experience

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Music, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Courage, Fear, Brave Face

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.124, Shambhala Publications

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• The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

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• An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

  Marlon Brando

  Inspirational, Motivational, Order

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• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Yoga, Focus And Concentration

  FaceBook post by Dr. Barbara De Angelis from May 20, 2014

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• I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Money, Funny Inspirational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.61, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

  Kathleen Turner

  Politics, Causes, Helping

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• I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

  Teresa Wright

  Umpires, Acting, Cheesecake

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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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