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• Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Inspirational, Failure, Mediocrity

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• Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.

  Hubert Harrison

  Religious, Water, Sorrow

  Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press

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• Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Kitchen, Lingerie, Clean

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• God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

  Muhammad Ali

  Syndromes, Parkinson's, Shows

  "'Twelve Rounds to Glory' rhymes Ali's life" by Regan McMahon, www.sfgate.com. January 27, 2008.

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• [With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

  Ruby Wax

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• I don't know where life will lead me, but I know where I've been. I can't say what life will show me, but I know what I've seen. Tried my hand at love and friendship, but all that is passed and gone. This little boy is moving on.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Moving, Boys, Hands

  Song: Sitting In Limbo

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• The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

  Laird Barron

  Light, Blood, Shining

  Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• God, show me how to pray in a way that will make a difference in this child’s life.

  Stormie Omartian

  Children, Differences, Making A Difference

  Stormie Omartian (2008). “The Power of Praying®: Help for a Woman's Journey Through Life”, p.27, Harvest House Publishers

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• It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Science, Balls

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• I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Trying, Saint, Demand

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• Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Jail, Gone

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• Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Reading, Thinking, Doors

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• You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, Community, Progress

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.

  Eboo Patel

  Compassion, Care, Stewardship

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• You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Heart, Answers

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• I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

  Evander Holyfield

  Spiritual, Godly, Way

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• The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Long, Different

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we wish for mercy ourselves, we must show mercy to all dumb animals.

  Joyce Lambert

  Animal, Compassion, Dumb

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• They crave attention though, they always saying show me som
  but girl you aint the only one that's tryna be the only one

  Drake

  Girl, Attention, Opportunist

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• It's one of many ways that Barack shows me and the girls how special we are. And that's the thing that touches me about him. I don't care what's on his plate. I don't care what he's struggling with. When he steps off that elevator into our residence he is Barack and dad. And there's just those little things that you do that remind you, that you know, I still got ya.

  Michel'le

  Girl, Dad, Struggle

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• One of the things that attracted me to Barack was his emotional honesty. Right off the bat he said what he felt. There are no games with him—he is who he appears to be. I feel fortunate as a woman to have a husband who loves me and shows me in every way.

  Michel'le

  Honesty, Husband, Emotional

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• James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured wed at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Home, Doors, Living Right

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• Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.

  Doyle Brunson

  Eye, Cards, May

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