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• I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Typical, Deeds, Want

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• Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in rectification (of deeds, errors, sins, injustice). Both are sham. The truth lies at the opposite end of the scale: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be rectified. All rectification (both vengeance and forgiveness) will be taken over by oblivion.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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• We need to reflect with great seriousness about why many young people don't feel like getting married... For fear of failure, many do not want to even think about it... Many people believe the change that has taken place in recent decades was set in motion by the emancipation of women. But this argument is not valid, it is an insult, a form of misogyny.

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.

  Albert J. Nock

  Office, Towns, Driving

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• When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.

  Zig Ziglar

  Essence, Goal, Creative

  Zig Ziglar “Over the Top”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.

  Ben Affleck

  Too Much, Firsts, Towns

  "'Argo' director/star Ben Affleck grows smarter and more ambitious with each picture". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2012.

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• My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.

  David Cassidy

  Mother, Father, Actors

  "David Cassidy: My family Values". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

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• In a poll taken in 1998, only 7 percent of the members of the US National Academy of Sciences, the elite of American scientists, said they believed in a personal god.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Scientist, Polls, Said

  Victor J. Stenger (2010). “God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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• Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

  John Cusack

  Looks, Kitsch, Dangerous

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• There is no more fulfilling experience in all the world than the sense that God's Spirit has taken you and dared to use you for His glory.

  Dennis F. Kinlaw

  Use, World, Spirit

  Dennis F. Kinlaw (1985). “Preaching in the spirit”, Zondervan

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• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  Rand Paul

  Way, Republican, Easy

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• When my title was taken away boxing died.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Titles, Died

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• You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Cutting, People, Growth

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• There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

  Ian Anderson

  Rocks, Musician, Income

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• A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Should Have, Class, Dancer

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• No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Steps, All Things, All Things New

  Rachel Held Evans (2015). “Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.

  David Mamet

  Country, Government, Views

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• I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

  Bill Gates

  Clothes, Care, Term

  "Bill Gates interview: I have no use for money. This is God’s work". Interview with Neil Tweedie, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.

  Bill Gates

  Guy, Machines, Break

  "Finally, Vista Makes Its Debut. Now What?". Interview with Steven Levy, www.newsweek.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.

  Thomas Nagel

  Mean, Reality, Views

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• Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.

  Nhat Hanh

  Healing, Mindfulness, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2013). “Love Letter to the Earth”, p.52, Parallax Press

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• I hope I will not be typecast as a Bond girl for the rest of my life. I'm very proud of being a part of the Bond family, but I don't want to be the sexy girl forever. I'm not meaning to complain, but I just want to be taken seriously.

  Eva Green

  Girl, Sexy, Forever

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• You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Thinking, Civilization, Ideas

  Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Judas Unchained”, p.906, Pan Macmillan

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• You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Father, Believe

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• From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

  W. H. Auden

  Hands, Plot, Fame

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