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• We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

  Richard M. Weaver

  World, Action, Nihilist

  Letter to R. T. Eubanks (January 19, 1961) in "Language is Sermonic", p. 56, 1970.

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• Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Country, Plato, Mean

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• My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

  Terry Pratchett

  Who I Am, Names, People

  Source: boingboing.net

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• I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.

  Tim Gunn

  Hard Work, Waiting, Way

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• Putting on your crown is really like accepting the fact that you are a queen. You're a great woman. Wherever you are in life, just keep on that path, and so for me, sometimes as women, we forget - we forget that about ourselves. So, putting on your crown is sort of reminding yourself that, hey, I'm a queen, and I can do what I want in this life and take it.

  Queen Latifah

  Queens, Hey, Crowns

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• The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

  Richard Carlson

  Humility, Creating, Peaceful

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

  Christopher Morley

  Reminding Yourself, Ifs

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1945). “Morley's Variety: A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, MADE BY LOUIS GREENFIELD, AND PUBLISHED IN CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY”

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• I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

  Markus Zusak

  Knows, Dies

  Source: www.chipublib.org

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• When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you.

  Christine Ebersole

  Remember Who You Are, Asking, Barriers

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• This is a lyrical guide that addresses the deep human yearning to make a difference. It's full of indelible stories reminding us that, yes, helping people is hard-but it's both possible and infinitely rewarding. A Path Appears offers practical steps that any of us can take to empower others, and ourselves.

  Anne Rice

  Differences, People, Empowering

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• Isn’t that why you have that gun mounted on the front? Or is it for other reasons, because I would’ve thought that a man with your powers would be past the urge to compensate.” Barabas grinned. “I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus,” Saiman said dryly. “Thank you for reminding me.” “Always happy to oblige.

  Ilona Andrews

  Gun, Past, Men

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.47, Penguin

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• And I wish to thank you as well, Royce." He was puzzled. "For what?" "For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they've done, can find redemption if they seek it.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Wish, Done, Redemption

  Michael J Sullivan (2012). “Percepliquis”, p.409, Hachette UK

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• hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

  David Levithan

  Kind, Hubris, Feels

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.107, Macmillan

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• How did you find me anyway." "For all that I must keep reminding you that I am not a bloodhound, it's true that on occasion, having a sensitive nose is a useful thing. I followed the smell of you." Tybalt sighed, looking exaggeratedly put-upon. "If you must be ferried back to your people, I suppose I can oblige. But only because you asked me so very nicely, and promised me a kiss.

  Mira Grant

  Kissing, Smell, People

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Flower, Butterfly, Writing

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• Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  "Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• Q: What were you thinking when your colleagues were out there making cosmic history? A: I just kept reminding myself that every single component in this spacecraft was provided by the guy who submitted the cheapest tender.

  Michael Collins

  Thinking, Guy, Cosmic

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• The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Artist, Carpe Diem

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• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stress, Blood, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delusion of non authenticity, enabling them to become aware of their true possibilities.

  Antoni Tapies

  Reality, Creating, People

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 25), 2004.

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• I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.

  Rex Stout

  Women, Experts, Female

  Rex Stout (2011). “GAMBIT”, p.81, Bantam

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• A lot of the things I find funniest about people are their shortcomings that they're oblivious to, but that they're constantly reminding everyone around them of.

  Emile Hirsch

  People, Oblivious, Shortcomings

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.

  Craig Stone

  Sex, Couple, Block

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• Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it's the Lord's way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul.

  Dwan J. Young

  Thinking, Soul, World

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• Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk.

  Ron Franscell

  Haunting, Pages, Berserk

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