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• My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

  Jerry B. Jenkins

  Dream, Ideas, Competition

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• Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Secret, Knows

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• A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

  Laozi

  Men, Foolish Man, Done

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Perfect, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.653, Library of America

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• The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

  Russell Kirk

  Running, Men, Hoarding

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.362, Regnery Publishing

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• Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

  Warren Buffett

  Sloth, Investment, Hallmark

  "In Soccer and Investing, Bias Is Toward Action" by Carl Richards, bucks.blogs.nytimes.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I've read all the books but one
  Only remains sacred: this
  Volume of wonders, open
  Always before my eyes.

  Kathleen Raine

  Book, Eye, Garden

  Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.139, SteinerBooks

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• Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

  Idries Shah

  Wise, Book, Ass

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.81, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

  Boethius

  Eternity, Produce

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• Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Secret, Development, Chess

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• Is the beam from a lighthouse affected by howling wind and rain? It remains perfectly steadfast and unaffected by the storm. Your true self is like that. Nothing can ever harm you once you are consciously aware that it is so.

  Vernon Howard

  Rain, Self, Wind

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• Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you'll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you'll have found a new way of life.

  Dan Millman

  Strong, Old Habits, Mind

  Dan Millman (2010). “Body Mind Mastery: Training for Sport and Life”, p.69, New World Library

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• But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

  Gerald May

  Love, Kindness, Forever

  "The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth".

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• Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  School, Past, Government

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• In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

  Georges Danton

  Revolution, Authority, Scoundrels

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• It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

  Isadora Duncan

  Change, Real, Character

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.

  Mary Antin

  Struggle, Writing, School

  Mary Antin (1912). “At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant”

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• However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is no divorce from memory.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Memories, Real, Heart

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• Faith is a gateway to happiness that remains permanently accessible to each of us, wherever we are, no matter our circumstances.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Faith, Matter, Gateways

  Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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• Football, in its purest form, remains a physical fight. As in any fight, if you don't want to fight, it's impossible to win.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Football, Fighting, Winning

  Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.12, Sports Illustrated

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• If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

  Irving Chernev

  Queens, Kings, Men

  Irving Chernev (2014). “The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 masterly games of chess strategy”, p.110, Pavilion Books

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• Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

  Ronald Reagan

  Reality, Age, Highest

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Party, Struggle, Emotional

  bell hooks (2004). “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

  Walt Whitman

  Panic, Siege, Engagement

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.

  Henri Nouwen

  Art, Dark, Complaining

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.8, Harper Collins

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