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• We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do not notice the atrocity, stupidity and cruelty with which the teaching of the Christian church is permeated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Religious, Lying

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• When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Wise, Decision, Fool

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• I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Art, People, Wish

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• Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea. Silence descends, one hears the wind outside, autumn leaves rustle and take flight, the cat sleeps in a warm pool of light. And, with each swallow, time is sublimed.

  Muriel Barbery

  Sleep, Cat, Autumn

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• Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

  Roy T. Bennett

  People, Good Things, Surround Yourself

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• Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Dream, Motivation, Distance

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• Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Air, Bridges

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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• God sends his angels to protect us and his Word as a star to guide us. Then he surrounds us with his grace. We become his depot, the distribution point of God's gifts.

  Max Lucado

  Stars, Angel, Grace

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• You don`t have any problems - only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems. because they are your creations. Have another look at your problems: the deeper you look, the smaller they will appear. Go on looking at them and by and by they will start disappearing. Go on gazing and suddenly you will find there is emptiness - a beautiful emptiness surrounds you. Nothing to do, nothing to be, because you are already that.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Gazing, Looks

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• Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day.

  Rick Warren

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  Rick Warren (2015). “The Purpose Driven Life Devotional for Kids”, p.122, Harper Collins

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• If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Children, Men, Issues

  "The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west".

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• Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Smart, Stupid, People

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• The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.

  Neal Shusterman

  Princess, Heart, Sleep

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

  Alvar Aalto

  Design, Tragedy, Shapes

  Alvar Aalto, Karl Fleig, Elissa Aalto (1990). “Alvar Aalto: 1963-1970 (3. Aufl.)”

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• Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

  Michael Johnson

  Inspirational, Life Changing, People

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• There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either of good or evil.  The latter are in the greatest number, so much more ingenious are we in tormenting ourselves than in discovering reasons for enjoyment in the things that surround us.

  Charles Mackay

  Numbers, Evil, Reason

  Charles MacKay, Peter-Eric Philipp (2000). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds”, p.312, Essential Library

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• In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

  David Heyman

  Independent, Skills, People

  "Harry Potter Producer David Heyman Talks Deathly Hallows, Tentpoles, Gravity". Interview with Anthony D'Alessandro, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.

  Lilly Singh

  Strong, Voice, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

  Neil Gaiman

  Song, People, Stories

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.201, Hachette UK

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• If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

  William Gibson

  Bears, Degrees, Different

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• I would surround myself with people who know what they're doing.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  People, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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