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• New Yorkers have this special spot in Central Park, where they do this 5K run, the minute the clock strikes twelve. I ran once, and I'll never do that again, either. But, it's awesome to watch those people run. It's such a great environment and place to be.

  Hilary Swank

  Running, Central Park, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Hero, Eye

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• Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

  Willa Cather

  Humanity, Brutality, Sacred

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.220, U of Nebraska Press

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Eye, Ducks

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• Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

  James Truslow Adams

  Faith, Wisdom, Lying

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• A spot whereon the founders lived and died
  Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,
  Or gardens rich in memory glorified
  Marriages, alliances, and families,
  And every bride's ambition satisfied.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Ambition, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Pride, Moon

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• The very best place to be in all the world is St. Mary's parish, Jamaica. And the best spot in St. Mary's is Port Maria, though all of St. Mary's is fine. Old Maker put himself to a lot of trouble to make that part of the island of Jamaica, for everything there is perfect.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Islands, Jamaica, Perfect

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!

  Lewis Carroll

  Friday, Morning, Children

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• Thumbs grow into my throat.
  I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

  Anne Sexton

  Thumbs, Assault, Throat

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.264, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Able, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.567, Hamilton Books

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• You can always spot clothes made in a good place.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Clothes, Made

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

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• Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.

  D. Patrick Miller

  Christian, Religious, Blind Spots

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• I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.

  Robert Morley

  Mirrors, Self, Wife

  Robert Morley (1980). “Morley Matters”, London : Robson Books

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• I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.

  Edward T. Hall

  Women, Eye, Differences

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• Start out identifying what you know are delicacies of being within, tiny little touches of knowledge that has beingness in it, special soft spots of heart. As soon as you identify them, you need to believe them.

  John de Ruiter

  Believe, Heart, Special

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• Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

  Patti Smith

  Perfect, Life Is Like, Moments

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• ...when we are going through the aftereffects of a bad jolt in loss of money or pride--and both are closely connected--we should get off to ourselves, make an honest appraisal of our shortcomings, and try to find our weak spots and bolster them up before starting in again. First on the program we should figure out a plan to eat. The money we have lost is a small matter; if we can keep our pride and strong faith in ourselves the battle ahead is half won before we start.

  Sue Sanders

  Perseverance, Strong, Failure

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• Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with parents who confidently assert the reasons for their demands and enforce reasonable rules. Even if there are a few rough spots, relationships between parents and young children run more smoothly when the parent, rather than the child, is in control.

  Sandra Scarr

  Running, Children, Discipline

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• I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.

  Paul Giamatti

  Sweet, Hard Times, Thinking

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• Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.

  Sanjay Gupta

  Sweet, Sleep, Night

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

  John Cleese

  Insane, Here And There, World

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• Retire from the world each day to some private spot. Stay in the secret place till the surrounding noises begin to fade out of your heart and a sense of God's presence envelops you. Deliberately tune out the unpleasant sounds and come out of your closet determined not to hear them. Listen for the inward voice till you learn to recognize it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Secret Places, Voice

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• Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

  Al Capone

  Guy, Trying, Hell

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• The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

  Mason Cooley

  Hero, White, Used

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