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• A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Spiritual, Children, Book

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• Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

  James Madison

  Men, Race, People

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• In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.

  Scott Clifton

  Race, Needs, Opinion

  "Answers 3 of 5". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. November 6, 2007.

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• The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.

  Diana Athill

  Horse, Eight, Order

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• Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Believe, Victory

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Thinking, Firsts, Wells

  "Nicolas Cage is No Ordinary ‘Joe’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 10, 2014.

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• Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Thinking, Remember

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Morale is a little bit dimmed, is a bit affected by the redundancy program. That program had been planned for quite some time, and when I took over it was really left to me to make the final decision and it clearly was the right thing to do for the business.

  David Edward Kirk

  Decision, Finals, Littles

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• Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.

  Henry Rollins

  Friday, Fighting, People

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• The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

  John Milton

  Truth, Ignorance, Eye

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.387

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• You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.

  Stevie Nicks

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

  Kevin Smith

  People, Expectations, Bars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you are thinking every day, 'I have to get to the gym' and 'I have to lose this weight,' and that's all you think about and you obsess over it, it's not healthy.

  Carmen Electra

  Thinking, Healthy, Weight

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• Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism! And yet even the majestic ruins that are still scattered over Italy and the provinces, would be sufficient to prove that those countries were once the seat of a polite and powerful empire.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Powerful, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.37, Wordsworth Editions

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• The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.

  Dave Mustaine

  Firsts, Megadeth, Written

  "Dave Mustaine's Advice for the Next President". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

  Dave Eggers

  Phones, Talking, Control Someone

  Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.23, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes I'll be confident and go into a shop and say, "Hello, yeah, all right," and then the next day, if someone looks at me or talks to me, I just don't know what to do. If you're walking down the street with a baseball cap, you might be fine. But if you're in a pub and you see someone look at you, you think the worst thing in the world now is if they come over. It's a really weird feeling.

  Ricky Gervais

  Baseball, Thinking, Next Day

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

  Paul Theroux

  Rhinos, People, Chinese

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.

  Rob Zombie

  Thinking, Political, Want

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.

  Johan Huizinga

  Mean, Science, Technology

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• Only brooms
  Know the devil
  Still exists,
  
  That the snow grows whiter
  After a crow has flown over it

  Charles Simic

  Snow, Evil, Crow

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great charm of poetry consists in lively pictures of the sublime passions, magnanimity, courage, disdain of fortune; or thoseof the tender affections, love and friendship; which warm the heart, and diffuse over it similar sentiments and emotions.

  David Hume

  Heart, Passion, Poetry

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.453

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• Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.

  Horace Bushnell

  Men, Power, Wind

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• One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

  John Diefenbaker

  Greatness, Tradition, Moments

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• We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as well. They wish for the world in which the United States was utterly dominant over its friends, its foes were to be shunned entirely, and the challenges were stark, moral, and vital. Today's world is messy and complicated. China is one of our biggest trading partners and our looming geopolitical rival. Russia is a surly spoiler, but it has a globalized middle class and has created ties in Europe.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Leadership, Money, War

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