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• Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Wine, Temptation

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

  Omar Khayyam

  Grief, Blessed, Bird

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• For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

  Alan Watts

  Contentment, Alive, Able

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• It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks rehearsing and honing their skills, and at least a day attempting to reach the summit. And then, having achieved their goal, they spend just a few moments enjoying the experience, along with one or two equally certifiable companions who have little in common other than wanting to do it all again, but a little higher.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Men, Skills, Two

  Jeffrey Archer (2009). “Paths of Glory”, p.72, Pan Macmillan

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• The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.

  Max Anders

  Tasks, Christ, Evangelism

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• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Literature, Serious

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

  Alan Watts

  Money, People, Saving

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me. 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, Boys, Hands

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

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• Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  Fannie Farmer

  Art, Food, Men

  Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). “Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• The only options open for girls then were of course mother, secretary or teacher. At least that's what we all thought and were preparing ourselves for. Now, I must say how lucky we are, as women, to live in an age where 'Dental Hygienist' has been added to the list.

  Roseanne Barr

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

  B. C. Forbes

  Writing, Men, Opportunity

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• For me, preparing the canvas takes longer than painting. The actual painting takes about half an hour.

  Katherine Bernhardt

  Half, Canvas, Painting

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

  Umberto Eco

  Hate, Believe, Mean

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Ambition, Past, Solitude

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• Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

  Mark Pryor

  Ebola, America, Pandemics

  "Democratic senator can't judge Obama's Ebola handling" by Jeremy Diamond, edition.cnn.com. October 7, 2014.

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• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  Vance Havner

  Devil, Preacher, Sermons

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• I'm always fighting to make the team anyway. I'm always preparing like I'm one of the bottom guys, trying to make the team.

  Champ Bailey

  Team, Fighting, Guy

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• I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat.

  Rahul Dravid

  Personality, Victory, Doe

  "I Don't Try to Be a Paragon of Virtue: Rahul Dravid". Interview with Saurabh Somani, sports.ndtv.com. October 04, 2013.

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• At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

  Jack Wild

  Immature, Wish, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

  Graham Taylor

  Football, Player, Games

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• Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

  Wallace Stevens

  Nature, Spring, Silly

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

  Barbara Pym

  Food, Wine, Simple

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• When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Real, Technology

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• For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

  Michael Pollan

  Selfish, Practice, People

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.20, Penguin

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• The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

  Robert D. Hales

  Events, Prophecy, Savior

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