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• If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

  Wally Lamb

  Prayer, Want, Knees

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

  Lisa Alther

  Attachment, People, Dying

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.431, Open Road Media

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• By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Waking, Life Is

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Mind, Unhappy, Praise

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.319

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• When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

  Carrie Underwood

  Stars, Light, Soul

  Song: Inside Your Heaven, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Reason

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.222

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• All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

  Richard von Weizsaecker

  Past, Gmos, Guilty

  Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.59, Routledge

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Earl Warren

  Birthday, Children, Heart

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Love, Magic, Bones

  Song: Race Among The Ruins, Album: Summertime Dream

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• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

  Emily Bronte

  Running, Work, Sleep

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Delirium Tremens, Delirium, Ennui

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White, People

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• Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

  Max Beerbohm

  Done, Given, Should

  Mainly on the Air "From Bloomsbury to Baywater" (1946)

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• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Sin, Forgiven

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• The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Anger, Irritation

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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strength, Grief, Unhappy Person

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• To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

  John Hall Gladstone

  Time, Men, Doe

  John Hall Gladstone (2014). “Michael Faraday”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

  Julian Fellowes

  Life, Advice, Understanding

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• We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Karma, Evil, Pay

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• Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

  Victor LaValle

  Old Woman, Displeasure

  Victor LaValle (2012). “The Devil in Silver: A Novel”, p.34, Spiegel & Grau

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• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

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• It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Atheism, Doctrine, Looks

  Henrik Ibsen (1904). “Ghosts: An Enemy of the People : The Wild Duck”

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• Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.

  Jose Rizal

  Hate, Humble, Ideas

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• I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
  And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, World, Sun

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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