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• If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.

  Paul Revere

  Country, Night, Sea

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• You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

  Lucinda Williams

  Success, People, Crafts

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• I think the music business will eventually crush me, but I [smiles]... I'm ready.

  Elliott Smith

  Crush, Thinking, I Smile

  "Strange Parallel". Documentary, 1998.

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.

  William James

  Character, Mean, Successful

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.410, Courier Corporation

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• I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

  Jacques Derrida

  Roles, Argument, Stage

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.342, Stanford University Press

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• If I look back after 10 weeks and say I really want to stay then maybe I can make that happen. If I say OK it was good, but I’m ready to go then I can go, but for now I’m taking it week by week.

  Landon Donovan

  Looks, Want, Week

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• As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

  Rafael Nadal

  Kids, Winning, Player

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• I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court...Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve.

  Marat Safin

  Pain, Play, Yesterday

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• Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

  Vannevar Bush

  Running, Mesh, Form

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

  Mike Huckabee

  Wall, Tired, People

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• Nobody is ready to leave Iraq to be interviewed.

  Colin Powell

  Iraq, Ready To Leave

  Address to the United Nations Security Council, delivered 5 February 2003

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• I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.

  Studs Terkel

  Leadership, Thinking, People

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly", www.pbs.org. December 19, 2003.

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• Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.

  Dale Carnegie

  Flower, Sunshine, Wind

  Dale Carnegie (1982). “How To Win Friends And Influence People”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, World, Wild Things

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Author Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nhpr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

  William Steig

  Giving, Want

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• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Watches, Awful

  "Bergman 'depressed' by own films". news.bbc.co.uk. April 10, 2004.

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• Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Ice, Storm

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  Karlie Kloss

  Summer, Dream, Spring

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• A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Girl, Rejection, Firsts

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• I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

  Hank Aaron

  Failure, Player, Bed Of Roses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Handbags, I don't at all like them because they occupy my hands. My hands always have to be ready in case I need to slap somebody.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Hands, Needs, Handbags

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• If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Home, Support You, Accountability

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• So they were turning, after all - those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma: You see, this is my life. It always will be! (In a whisper) There's nothing else - just us - and the cameras - and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.

  Gloria Swanson

  Dream, Taken, Dark

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• The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beautiful, Crush, Greed

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.507, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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