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• He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Deaf And Blind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2552, Delphi Classics

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• Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Kings, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Maine Woods - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.102, Read Books Ltd

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• I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Teacher, Stalking

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.371, Penguin

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• [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Two, Should Have

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.

  Steven Millhauser

  Morning, Dirty, Flower

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• Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Mind, Afternoon

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Motivational, Wall, Powerful

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• Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

  Louise Rennison

  Serious Things, Exam, Still Life

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• But perhaps age has taught me that the earth is still new, molten at the core and still forming, that black leaves in the winter forest will crawl with life in the spring, that our story is ongoing and it is indeed a crime to allow the heart's energies to dissipate with the fading of light on the horizon.

  James Lee Burke

  Spring, Heart, Winter

  James Lee Burke (2011). “A Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set: Neon Rain, Heaven's Prisoners, Excerpt from The Glass Rainbow”, p.640, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.

  Michaela DePrince

  People, Dancer, Black

  "Teen dancer Michaela DePrince", www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations.
  One scholar is matched with another; one creative mind with another; and one judicious temperament with his counterpart. A victory won on that field counts for three won by force of arms.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Kings, Army, Creative

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Today, Exhausted, Changing Your Life

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• You could say that my life's a mess. But, I'm still looking pretty in this dress.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Dresses, Mess, Looking Pretty

  Song: Homewrecker, Album: Electra Heart, 2012

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• I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm
  not going to go out of my way.

  Joe Rogan

  Writing, Tonight, Way

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• I am convinced that pilgrimage is still a bona fide spirit-renewing ritual. But I also believe in pilgrimage as a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler. With a deepening of focus, keen prepartion, attention to the path below our feet, and respect for the destination at hand, it is possible to transform, even the most ordinary journey into a sacred journey, a pligrimage.

  Phil Cousineau

  Powerful, Believe, Journey

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• I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

  Chanel Iman

  Beautiful, Teenage, Years

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• The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

  Rob Bell

  Play, Stories

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.66, Harper Collins

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• I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums.

  Winsor McCay

  Dream, Art, Character

  Winsor McCay (2007*). “Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland”

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• I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.

  Scott McClellan

  Believe, White, People

  Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, PublicAffairs

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• I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

  Anne Hathaway

  Believe, Character, People

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

  John Denver

  Song, Singers, Silent

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• If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.

  Graham Joyce

  Writing, Feelings, Way

  "The magus of the Midlands", www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2000.

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• In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

  Yannick Noah

  Europe, Stories, Village

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• Not only don't I know what tomorrow will bring, I'm still not entirely certain what yesterday brought?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Yesterday, Tomorrow, Certain

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• I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.

  Lady G

  Evil, Fool, Moments

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