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• By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn't write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I'd gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit.

  John Newcombe

  Writing, Feet, Gone

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• I had played so poorly recently, I started thinking that maybe I should do something else. Then I saw my friends going to work everyday and realised that my life wasn't so bad.

  Steve Pate

  Golf, Thinking, Everyday

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• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Perfect, Joy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.85, Rabindranath Tagore

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• At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

  Ernst Toller

  Brother, Men, Realization

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: An Autobiography”

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• I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer.

  Aubrey Newman

  Jobs, Military, Boys

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• The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.

  Norman Lockyer

  Science, Civilization, Community

  Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, Sir Norman Lockyer (1906). “Education and National Progress”

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• I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

  Bronwyn Bishop

  Leadership, Two, People

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• I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.

  Dhani Harrison

  Wise, Children, Father

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• When me and my brother would go to see our daddy playing, there'd be 30 people in the audience. I was only 14 or 15, but I realised something was wrong.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Brother, Daddy, People

  "A life in music: Wynton Marsalis". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

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• I lived with a coffee farmer called Dukale on a trip I made with World Vision to Ethiopia, and realised there's no good reason for the disparity in opportunity around the world.

  Hugh Jackman

  Coffee, Opportunity, Vision

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• I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

  Clemence Poesy

  Horse, Children, Adventure

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• Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

  Nick Frost

  Succeed, Said, Knows

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• My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

  Jessie J

  Girl, Attitude, Eight

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

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• Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

  John Lydon

  Emotion, Wanted

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

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• One of the things I've realised is that I am very simple. My wife asked me once if I loved her. I said: 'Look love, I'm a simple man. I love you. End of story.' But I guess you gotta keep saying it with women. I guess she needed reassurance.

  Bob Hoskins

  I Love You, Simple, Men

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• Science is absolutely incomplete unless and until the scientists are Realised Souls. Medicine is incomplete, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, everything is incomplete unless and until you know the Divine laws.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

  Lesley Garrett

  Music, Communication, Profound

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

  Theresa May

  Men, Issues, Hey

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

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• The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Perfect, Tasks

  Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• I never realised that to become a jockey you needed to be a horse first.

  Arrigo Sacchi

  Horse, Jockeys, Firsts

  "Arrigo Sacchi, the magician of Milan, begins to build a new Italy". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2011.

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  Ed O'Brien

  Long, Stuff, Computer

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• I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.

  Shadia Drury

  Wise, Book, Being Real

  "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.

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• I realised that I had a choice to either feel angry about not having arms and legs, or thankful for having my family, friends and my little foot.

  Nick Vujicic

  Feet, Choices, Legs

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• The Masonic movement... is the custodian of the law; it is the home of the Mysteries and the seat of initiation. It holds in its symbolism the ritual of Deity, and the way of salvation is pictorially preserved in its work. It is a far more occult organization than can be realised, and is intended to be the training school for the coming advanced occultists. In its ceremonials lie hid the wielding of the forces connected with the growth and life of the kingdoms of nature and the unfoldment of the divine aspects in man.

  Alice Bailey

  Lying, Home, School

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