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• Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

  Edgar Guest

  Way, Wasting Time, Wealth

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another. In this way we already begin to experience unity. Unity grows along the way, it never stands still. Unity happens when we walk together.

  Pope Francis

  Unity, Together, Charity

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• Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

  Henry Timrod

  Lying, Humble, Sleep

  Henry Timrod, “Ode:Sung On The. Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead”

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• There are people who like short movies, and I think they should just watch our movies on DVD because they can pause, go to the bathroom, eat dinner, and come back to it.

  Judd Apatow

  Thinking, Dvds, People

  "Director Nicholas Stoller and Producer Judd Apatow Talk The Five-Year Engagement". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Satisfaction, Recreation, Contrast

  Russell L. Ackoff (1994). “The Democratic Corporation: A Radical Prescription for Recreating Corporate America and Rediscovering Success”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.

  Seamus Heaney

  Ignorance, People, Different

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• I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Eternity

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

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• Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.

  Bill Cosby

  Two, People, Laughing

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• Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Tired, Recovery

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.184, 1st World Publishing

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• All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fall, Men, Hunting

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

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• I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Dog, Honesty

  "David Crockett: His Life and Adventures". Book by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, p. 294, 1875.

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• Watching shows on Netflix is a different experience because most people are sitting there for three to five hours. Very few people even watch one episode. So it's not like a movie theater where you want to the movies to be shorter so you can go urinate. You can pause and urinate at home, and if something is longer, you're allowed to stop and eat breakfast and then watch eight more episodes.

  Judd Apatow

  Home, Different Experiences, Eight

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Nobody wants anybody who's radical, who wants to move in here to be able to gain access. I said we should take a pause on these Syrian migrants. And I believe we should do that.

  John Kasich

  Believe, Moving, Migrants

  "Trump, Rubio, Sanders, Cruz, & Kasich". "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• A play is a parenthesis that contains all the material you think has to be contained for the action of the play. Where do you end that? Where the characters seem to come to a pause... where they seem to want to stop - rather like, I would think, the construction of a piece of music.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the middle of it all, pause and look around you. Appreciate what’s beautiful. Take in the love. Nod to what’s good and true. And then move forward one step at a time.

  Kathy Freston

  Beautiful, Moving, Appreciate

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• Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is something where you've been literally given an opportunity to put the world on pause for a second.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Art, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children... during an assault, the soldiers cannot pause to distinguish between male and female, or even discriminate as to age.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Children, Men, Soldier

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  The End Of The Day, Our Words, Cadence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I recently did a reading at an elementary school in Ottawa, and one of the children asked me if I was a girl. I said yes. Another child commented that I had a deep voice. I responded: "Can girls have deep voices?" There was a pause and then the group responded, "Yes!"

  Vivek Shraya

  Girl, Children, Reading

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Of course, one of the most disturbing features is the fact that while we have had roughly a ten year pause in the arms race where a lot of good work was done, this has now come to an end. For what we are seeing at the present time are new developments in anti-missile weaponry, drones, and so on.

  Paul Virilio

  Race, Years, Drones

  Source: ctheory.net

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• People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire.

  Georges St-Pierre

  People, Drug, Competition

  Source: www.bloodyelbow.com

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• I'm a super spiritual person, so every now and then I'll say, "Everyone, get out of my room because I need 15 minutes by myself to just sit alone." I have a chapter in my book [How to Be a Bawse] called "Pause," and basically, the idea is one of the ways to be successful is to reflect back on your successes and everything you've achieved.

  Lilly Singh

  Spiritual, Book, Successful

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a lot of people don't know and haven't been exposed to these types of historical experiences until they see it depicted on our show [Underground].

  Aldis Hodge

  Responsibility, Pride, Giving

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Some decisions are obviously much more inconsequential than others. For example, let's say you choose the blue shirt over the red one; not much is likely to change. Red meat over white meat once a week won't likely make a huge difference in your health. But if you believe that grilled chicken is healthier than a cheeseburger, your lunch choice might cause you to pause; especially if you know that the cheeseburger also comes with fries and a large chocolate shake.

  Craig Groeschel

  Believe, Lunch, White

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Because without such a reprieve we cannot pause and regroup and with the newfound strength go on to initiate that very change which is sorely needed by all.

  Vera Nazarian

  Goes On, Needed, Reprieve

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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