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• The knight is renowned for, among other things, its suitability as a blockader ... Because its strength lies in short-range operations it is not uncomfortable standing in a single spot for long periods, as the Bishop is.

  Samuel Reshevsky

  Lying, Knights, Long

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• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Circles, Water

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• In 1650 Bishop Ussher dated the creation from the genealogy given in the Bible at 4004 B.C.; for a long time (even for some people today) this was accepted as "gospel truth." However, if you accept a miracle such as this, what's wrong with creation 5 minutes ago? It would be scarcely more difficult for the Creator to create all of us sitting here, with our memories of events that never really happened, with our worn shoes that were never really new, with spots of soup that were never really spilled on our ties, and so on. Such a beginning is logically possible, but extremely hard to believe!

  Leigh Page

  Memories, Believe, Science

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• There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another dusty fact in a book, sapped of mystery. So maybe it was better to leave a few spots on the map blank. To let the world keep a little of its magic, rather than forcing it to divulge every last secret. Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.

  Ransom Riggs

  Life, Book, Romance

  "Hollow City". Book by Ransom Riggs, January 14, 2014.

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• With spots quadrangular of diamond form, ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, and spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Gambling, Typical

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.42

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• Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

  Rumi

  Tiny, Let Me, Shows

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• Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

  Mitch McConnell

  Reelection, Politics, Republican

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• Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Sweet, Expectations

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• It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Children, Writing, Learning

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• You can always spot a well informed man his views are the same as yours.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Views, Internet

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• All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

  Eddie Murphy

  Inspiration, Voice, Creative

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• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  Fay Wray

  Children, Afterlife, Age

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• I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, p. 102, 2002.

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• Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent into the same hell that had birthed her to life. In this moment of decision she condemned to death the one she would risk anything to save. To the night, Munroe whispered good-bye. Opened the floodgates to Gehenna-that place of the wicked, that place of the dead-and here in this deserted spot, she buried her soul.

  Taylor Stevens

  Block, Mean, Night

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• Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.

  Juli Inkster

  Stupid, Golf, Games

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• There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

  David Copperfield

  Jobs, Safe, Tornadoes

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• What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Opportunity, Direct Selling, Skills

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• When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.

  Oswald Chambers

  Character, Mirrors, Spirit

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.9, Discovery House

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• To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Dark, Be Prepared, Prepared

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• You realize the bad guy isn't wearing a black cape or easy to spot; he's funny, makes you laugh, and has perfect hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Hair, Perfect, Laughing

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• I rarely feel the desire to reread a scene the day before the shooting. Sometimes I arrive at the place where the work is to be done and I do not even know what I am going to shoot. This is the system I prefer: to arrive at the moment when shooting is about to begin, absolutely unprepared, virgin. I often ask to be left alone on the spot for fifteen minutes or half an hour and I let my thoughts wander freely.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Desire, Done, Half

  "Autobiographical interview". Cahiers du Cinema Magazine, 1960.

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• Just as bank tellers need a thorough knowledge of legitimate currency in order to spot counterfeit bills, so Christians need a thorough knowledge of the Bible in order to spot bogus religious teachings. How grounded are you in the Scriptures? How deep are your theological roots? How capable are you of detecting false teachings?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

  Charles R. Swindoll (1920). “Conquering Through Conflict”, W Publishing Group

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• Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.

  Thomas Merton

  Play, Important, Weakness

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Growth

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• Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Travel, Technology, Men

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