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• Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

  Edmar Mednis

  Strong, Play, Opponents

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• As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hands, Knives, Two

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book III, (13), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.

  Albert Finney

  People, Groups, Alabama

  Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.

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• Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.

  Johannes Tauler

  Fall, Grace, Demise

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• Children are loving, they don't gossip, they don't complain, they're just openhearted. They're ready for you. They don't judge. They don't see things by way of color. They're very child-like. That's the problem with adults: they lose that child-like quality.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Color, Gossip

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• When the devil is shouting 'no way', get ready...the way is about to show up.

  Jerry Savelle

  Devil, Way, Preparedness

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• No matter what happens, I'm loud, noisy, earthy and ready for much more living.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Matter, Loud, Happens

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• The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

  Daymond John

  Moving, Taken, Next Week

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• There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

  Louis Armstrong

  Kings, Looks, Parades

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• Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

  J. Edwin Orr

  God, Religious, Prayer

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• If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

  Tara Brach

  Lost Love, Heart, Love Life

  Tara Brach (2013). “True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart”, p.280, Bantam

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• True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

  F. H. Bradley

  Men, Silence, Would Be

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 10), 1930.

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• That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1277, Manonmani Publishers

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• Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape, Yet can't accept. One side will have to go. Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring Intricate rented world begins to rouse. The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

  Philip Larkin

  Doctors, Light, Sky

  Philip Larkin, “Aubade”

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• There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Real, Teaching, People

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2000). “Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers”, p.21, Penguin

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• When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Fetus

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• Of what good is our faith, our repentance, our baptism, and all the sacred ordinances of the gospel by which we have been made ready to receive the blessings of the Lord, if we fail, on our part, to keep the commandments.

  Heber J. Grant

  Faith, Blessing, Baptism

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• I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Grief, Thinking, Suffering

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• The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.

  Clark Gable

  Song, Men, Odds

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• Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

  Harvey Keitel

  Marine, Ideas, People

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• I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Sorry, Winning, Goal

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• How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Doors, Voice, Mind

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• When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Moving, Feel Better

  Iyanla Vanzant (2002). “Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide through Life's Dilemmas”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The easy part of being an artist is figuring out the message that everyone else is ready to hear. The hard part is waiting for the proper lull to make the announcement.

  Mark Twain

  Artist, Waiting, Messages

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• You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can - including the obstacles - to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?

  Richard Branson

  Believe, Opportunity, People

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