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• There was something refreshingly and wildly musical to my ears in the very name of the white man's canoe, reminding me of Charlevoix and Canadian Voyageurs. The batteau is a sort of mongrel between the canoe and the boat, a fur-trader's boat.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White Man, Names

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.7, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To enlighten people by reminding them the irrationality of their beliefs is an act more honest and more important than the act of praising and respecting people's beliefs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Important, Honest

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• Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Drama, People, Actors

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• Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail.

  David Boreanaz

  Jobs, Team, Together

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• One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Coats, Way, Evening

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.31, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I already know my size. I don't need reminding.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Needs, Size, Knows

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Gandhi or Bishop Tutu or the Dalai Lama. I think they're really embodiments of what we aspire to and, by keeping them in our heads, we're reminding ourselves of who we could be. That's what we're hoping to climb up towards.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Bishops, Embodiment

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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• When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.

  Joseph Williams

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Night, Might, Pillow

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• Nature is reminding us that it used to exist without human beings.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Used, Humans, Human Beings

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• The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Office, Balls

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My husband knows the meaning of sacrifice and support and he doesn't have a problem reminding me when I fall short. He will explain to me how and why this would jeopardize or compromise our relationship.

  Heather Headley

  Husband, Fall, Sacrifice

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their martyrs who are reminding them what is to be expected from the West.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Chinese, West

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We're remembering each other's heroes, too. We are learning each other's songs. We are reminding ourselves that we are a global family praying together. We're all trying to live in the light of the history that shines through the biblical narrative.

  Shane Claiborne

  Song, Hero, Biblical

  Interview with David Crumm, www.readthespirit.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I take my fearless approach into my teaching by helping my students to realize their potential through yoga. I have a gift for making difficult poses accessible and reminding people that postures, and anything in life, are only as hard as you make them out to be.

  Kathryn Budig

  Yoga, Teaching, People

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• I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day.

  Theo Rossi

  Wish, Wake Up, Lasts

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled. And, when your life flashes before your eyes kind of stuff, deep down under the water where you don't know what's up or down, and that kind of thing, or just Mother Nature reminding you how small you are compared to it. That's kind of the main thing for me.

  Aaron Bruno

  Mother, Eye, League

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• You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.

  Russell Simmons

  Important, What's Important, Reminding Yourself

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• I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people, the way 'Community' means something to people. [...] That's more powerful than ratings.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Powerful, Mean

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Brain, Needs, Good Enough

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

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• The spirit of [William] Penn will not be stayed. You cannot set limits to such knightly adventurers. After their own day is gone their spirits stalk the world, carrying inspiration everywhere that they go and reminding men of the lineage, the fine lineage, of those who have sought justice and right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiration, Men, Justice

  Woodrow Wilson (1978). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.

  Frank Pittman

  Parent, Way, Showing Up

  "How to Manage Mom & Dad" by Frank Pittman, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1994.

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• Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Father, Son

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

  Rachel Zucker

  Husband, Ice, Keys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have many enemies and they all think I'm being highfalutin calling it performance, but the word "reading" has a connotation of something academic with the lights on and you're going to get a lecture. I'm looking to blow my audiences away by giving a fine, dramatic performance and reminding them of why they love stories.

  T.C. Boyle

  Reading, Blow, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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