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• Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Heart, Men, Black

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1891, Delphi Classics

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• And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

  David Icke

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Magazines

  David Icke (1996). “--and the Truth Shall Set You Free”, Truth Seeker Company Incorporated

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• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Strong, Attachment

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean.

  Derek Jeter

  Success, Fun, Nice

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• The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

  Jimmy Johnson

  People, Care, Phony

  Jimmy Johnson, Ed Hinton (1994). “Turning the Thing Around: My Life in Football”, Hyperion

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• When it comes to raising civilized kids there are no hard rules, but there are two things on which most parents agree: Boys are generally wilder than girls, and adolescents are wilder than kids of any other age. If you've got an adolescent boy, you're in the sweet spot for trouble.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Girl, Sweet, Kids

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• I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Rockets, Holding On, Exploding

  "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Wall, Character, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• I clean my house, although I have help. I'm on the floor getting spots. I can't stand a dirty house. I'm a cleaning fanatic.

  Patti LaBelle

  Dirty, House, Helping

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• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Team

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• I had known there had been a serial killer on Mount Tamalpais, and it felt so incongruous in such a beautiful, peaceful spot.

  Joyce Maynard

  Beautiful, Peaceful, Serial Killer

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• I'm a great mummy. I've mapped out all the fun spots in every city.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fun, Cities, Mummy

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• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Space, Trying

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• If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Death, Jobs

  Essays Bk III, Ch. 12 'Of Physiognomy'

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• In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Real, India, Inattention

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• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.

  Graham Nash

  Anniversary, Song, Emotional

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• I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Believe, Ideas

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• I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

  Donny Osmond

  Drinking, Grateful, Skeletons

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• So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

  Patton Oswalt

  Inspirational, Positive, Fear

  "Celebrity Bostonians react to bombings" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

  Camille Paglia

  New York, Media, Years

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• Oh, I can spot a phoney a mile away.

  Dolly Parton

  Miles, Miles Away, I Can

  "Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2011.

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

  Steven Pinker

  Sensitive, Cheesecake, Faculty

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.534, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

  John Podhoretz

  Government, President, Executive Power

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