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• Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

  John Donne

  Life, Sleep, Men

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• Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more wars, more graves to receive more flowers on future Memorial Days. The memory of the dead deserves a different dedication. To peace, to defiance of governments.

  Howard Zinn

  Memorial Day, Memories, Betrayal

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.331, Seven Stories Press

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• Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.

  Coretta Scott King

  War, Leader, Way

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• God is grooming us for leadership. He's watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place.

  Randy Alcorn

  Heaven, Doe, Christ

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Heaven”, p.215, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• How is it that we do not die of love in seeing that God Himself could do no more than shed His divine blood for us drop by drop? When as man He was preparing for death, He made Himself our food in order to give us life. God becomes food, bread for his creatures. Is this not enough to make us die of love?

  Teresa of Avila

  Men, Blood, Order

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• Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.

  Rachel Caine

  Mom, Dad, Evil

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.572, Penguin

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• Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.

  Sheri Fink

  Eye, Focus, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our expertise is preparing foods in tough environments. We have a kitchen where we grill and roast and make smelly stuff happen, and then bring it to the site and warm it in a way that makes it taste just-cooked.

  David Castle

  Kitchen, Stuff Happens, Way

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• It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  People, Appreciate, Rejection

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• When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Motivation, Inspiration, Risk

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• I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career.

  Alicia Machado

  Cds, Careers, Next

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• People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Running, Grateful, Heart

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• I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

  Shauna Niequist

  Food, Thinking, People

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• Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

  Daniel Suarez

  Reality, Games, Play

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.610, Penguin

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• There are people who have repetitive nightmares. And what happens is their brain is trying to process the stress and help their brain actually deal with what happens if this stress happens again, so their brain's preparing them to deal with it in case the stress happens again, but it's so scary that they awaken from it.

  Shelby Harris

  Stress, People, Scary

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.

  Mark Millar

  Stars, War, Epic

  Source: www.ign.com

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• This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and daughter reconciling generational differences through preparing a 'traditional' meal together. Geishas. And even if something more exciting does manage to sneak through, it gets the same insultingly clichéd cover slapped on it anyway, so no one will ever know.

  Deborah Smith

  Mother, Daughter, Differences

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about the Magister.” Tessa said. “They said they were preparing me for him.” “For him to do what?” Will asked. “Eat you for dinner?” Tessa shook her head. “To – to marry me, they said.” “To marry you?” Jessamine was openly scornful. “That’s ridiculous. They were probably going to blood sacrifice you and didn’t want you to panic.” (page 78)

  Cassandra Clare

  Sacrifice, Dark, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Games, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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• Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Blessed, Ideas, Waiting

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• hope for the best, prepare for the worst

  Chris Bradford

  Preparation, Hoping For The Best, Worst

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• Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Preparing Food, About Yourself

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• Now, I know it’s hard, particularly for our young people, to choose to observe the Sabbath day when athletic teams on which they so much want to participate regularly schedule games on Sunday. I too know it seems trivial to many who are in need of just a few items on the Sabbath to quickly stop at a convenience store to make a Sunday purchase. But I also know that remembering to keep the Sabbath day holy is one of the most important commandments we can observe in preparing us to be the recipients of the whisperings of the Spirit

  H. David Burton

  Team, Sunday, Games

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• Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

  Paul Cellucci

  Play, Roles, Canada

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• One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Long, Broken, Usual

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