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• And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already slept so much and are preparing to sleep for all eternity.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Long, People

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We all bring some different elements at the Games. Everything is a stepping stone for us after playing these two games. These Games are preparing us to play a 60-minutes game and preparing us for the gold-medal game.

  Cherie Piper

  Hockey, Games, Play

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• He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Lying, Light, Soul

  Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Paul M. Angle (1958). “The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858”, p.311, University of Chicago Press

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• Freedom is not nurtured by nations preparing for war.

  William Appleman Williams

  War, Nations, Anti War

  William Appleman Williams, Henry W. Berger (1992). “A William Appleman Williams reader: selections from his major historical writings”, Ivan R Dee

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• That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Science, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Live Life, Waste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.342, Рипол Классик

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• Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

  Louis Pasteur

  Change, Discovery, Mind

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• Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to plan for in a sense. I do not think Dr. Whitney deliberately plans his serendipity but he is built that way; he has the art-an instinctive way of preparing himself by his curiosity and by his interest in people and in all kinds of things and in nature, so that the things he learns react on one another and thereby accomplish things that would be impossible to foresee and plan.

  Irving Langmuir

  Art, Nature, Science

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• What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, World, Tables

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Summer, Flower, Air

  "A Song for Summer".

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• Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in.

  Peter Hoagland

  Religious, Children, Believe

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• You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

  Pat Summitt

  Perseverance, Winning, Games

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.100, Crown Business

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• We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.

  Lily Eskelsen Garcia

  Teacher, Educational, Believe

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• There is always a part of my mind that is preparing for the worst, and another part of my mind that believes if I prepare enough for it, the worst won’t happen.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Believe, Mind, Enough

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.130, Pan Macmillan

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• GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Demand, Answers, Argument

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.99, University of Georgia Press

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• Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Whole Life

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• Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

  Kim Harrison

  Taken, World, Extinction

  Kim Harrison (2010). “White Witch, Black Curse”, p.51, HarperCollins UK

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• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?

  Nikki Sixx

  Book, Journey, Long

  Nikki Sixx (2011). “This Is Gonna Hurt (Enhanced Edition): Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing environment. By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits, and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Believe, Passion

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• If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

  Patrick White

  Mind, Sometimes, Lost

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• If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people must unite or they will perish.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  War, Science, Names

  J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance speech for Army-Navy "Excellence" Award, November 16, 1945.

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• Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2608, Manonmani Publishers

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• I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them.

  Amanda Beard

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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• In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]

  Othniel Charles Marsh

  Science, Past, Illustration

  Othniel Charles Marsh (1886). “Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals”

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• Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

  Don Williams

  Sea, Wave, Crash

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