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• Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside...." It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals.

  John Blacking

  Music, Feel Better, Men

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

  Eric Idle

  Domestic Violence, May, Stones

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• If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Dog, Teeth, Hounds

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• The one that sticks out in my mind and has all along was the New York Times piece on Melania Trump.Calling her a mannequin and a trophy wife, which if anybody had ever said that about any - Michelle Obama was a lawyer. But Melania Trump has been a successful businesswoman. She speaks several languages. A mannequin and a trophy wife and it was just - fine, they were allowed to say that about her.

  Megyn Kelly

  New York, Successful, Wife

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

  Winston Churchill

  Pregnancy, Inspiration, Land

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• When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don’t bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Commitment, People, Giving

  Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell stories, no one will remember what you say.

  Nick Morgan

  Mind, Events, Stories

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

  Mark Haddon

  Zero, Math, Half

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• My idol was Marilyn Monroe, who was a size 16, I think, and curvy in all the right places. I will never be stick thin. I remember a shoot where I had to get into these tiny hot pants, and I thought, 'God, I wish I hadn't eaten.'

  Katherine Jenkins

  Thinking, Idols, Wish

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

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• Listen, my words have never been described as the most eloquent, but I stick by the passion behind them. I do hate Donald Trump.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Hate, Passion, Trump

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate.

  Marian Burros

  Children, Hate, Fishing

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• when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.

  Helen Eustis

  Mother, Children, Ideas

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• I'll stick to painting as long as I can.

  Tom Thomson

  Long, Painting, I Can

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• Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

  Epictetus

  People, Giving, Purpose

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• Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hero, Simple, Bigs

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• When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

  Dave Ramsey

  Like You, More Money, Seems

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• Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store:
  You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Add, Needs, Complicated

  Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Warren Tyagi (2006). “All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.

  Narendra Modi

  Hockey, Effort, Brooms

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2014

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• I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Littles, Made, Modification

  Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, World, Judgment

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• When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Niece, Heart

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• You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

  Louis Malle

  Keys, Stories, Elbows

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• Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

  Thomas Berry

  Quality, Chance, Protect

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• I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government reduced to no more than internal police and courts, external armed forces - with the other matters handled otherwise. I'm sick of the way government sticks its nose in everything, now.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Government, Sick, Police

  "The Robert Heinlein Interview, and other Heinleiniana". Book by J. Neil Schulman, 1990.

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