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• One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

  James Taylor

  Beautiful, Memories, Grandmother

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

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• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "I'm 47. Unlike most actresses I don't lie about my age" by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2008.

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• We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Ideas, Important, Astonishment

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• When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Regret, Mistake, Errors

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• Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

  Edward Carpenter

  Strong, Block, Heart

  Edward Carpenter “The Intermediate Sex”, Routledge

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• The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Path, Determine, Happenstance

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• Individuality in universality is the plan of creation. Each cell has its part in bringing about consciousness. Man is individual and at the same time universal. It is while realising our individual nature that we realise even our national and universal nature. Each is an infinite circle whose centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. By practice one can feel universal Selfhood which is the essence of Hinduism. He who sees in every being his own Self is a Pandita (sage).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Practice, Circles

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• You need to realise that, if you want to go on, you have to work hard. If you dwell too much on your past successes and say "well, I have won nine world titles and more than 100 races", you'd rather stay home. The sport, your rivals, the tyres, your motorcycle, everything changes so instead you need to work more to be stronger. If you don't, you're finished.

  Valentino Rossi

  Sports, Hard Work, Home

  Source: supermotoo.blogspot.com

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• It is tragic that so few young people in Western democracies vote. They have forgotten that their ancestors fought for the right to choose and change their leaders. They don't realise that their votes are more important than their tweets or Facebook posts.

  Kofi Annan

  People, Leader, Important

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.

  Catherine Mayer

  Senior, Jobs, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I think your girlfriends getting Jealous," Luce said, gesturing at the pair. "Which one?" He asked. "I didn't realise they were both your girlfriends." "Neither is my girlfriend. I meant, which one did you think was my girlfriend?

  Lauren Kate

  Girlfriend, Jealous, Thinking

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• She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

  David Nicholls

  Husband, Cake, Fans

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• ...when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

  Per Petterson

  Dying, Gone, Impossible

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• You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Mean, Discipline

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Self, Two

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

  Jon McGregor

  Night, Connections, Lasts

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Passion, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.232, Routledge

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• As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Trying, Stories

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• The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise. The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.

  Wilkie Collins

  Spiritual, Lying, Light

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilkie Collins (Illustrated)”, p.1463, Delphi Classics

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• My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand. I waited. But Grace, the only person in the world I wanted to know me, just ran a wanting finger over the cover of one of the new hardcovers and walked out of the store without ever realising I was there, right within reach.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Grace, World, Body

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Effort, Goodness, Jihad

  "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.

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• Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness” to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too much had happened in too short a time. It’s like when you take a trip with someone you don’t know very well. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travellers, if that makes any sense.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Over You, Different, Too Much

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• My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

  Russell T Davies

  Hurt, Children, Character

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• There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Soul, Phrases

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Way, Easier, Opposing

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