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• It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.

  Steven Morrissey

  Songwriting, Interest

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

  A. R. Rahman

  Music, Thinking, Done

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• Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.

  Jacques Vallee

  Games, Play, Deception

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• What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, People, Achievement

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.8, Diversion Books

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• The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Business, People

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• You know why you hate me so much, Jeffery? Because I look the way you feel.

  Joe Pesci

  Hate, Looks, Insult

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• On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either the desire for a future or the concept of one. I felt more aware of who I was, but that in itself-dominated as it was by sensations of fragmentation and isolation-filled me with no great hope, and in many ways only fuelled an appetite for destruction.

  Anthony Loyd

  Depression, Desire, Despair

  Anthony Loyd (2014). “My War Gone By, I Miss It So”, p.136, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent through layer after layer of depression, like an elevator stopping for a moment on the way down to the basement.

  Al Alvarez

  Depression, Disappointment, Relaxation

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• She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Depression, Two, Long

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3771, Delphi Classics

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• I will find a way out or make one.

  Robert Peary

  Depression, Mental Illness, Illness

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• Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

  Andrew Solomon

  Pain, Iron, Knowing

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Optimism, Forever

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• The world we live in is a world of mingled good and evil. Whether it is chiefly good or chiefly bad depends on how we take it. To look at the world in such a way as to emphasize the evil is the art of pessimism. To look at it in such a way as to bring out the good, and throw the evil into the background, is the art of optimism. The facts are the same in either case. It is simply a question of perspective and emphasis.

  William DeWitt Hyde

  Art, Optimism, Perspective

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• Judaism tells us in many ways how to listen and say 'Hinneni', I am here.

  Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

  Judaism

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• For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Policy Making, World

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• Christianity is not a "spiritual" religion, like some religions of the east. It is an intensely "practical" religion, having its moral roots in the practicality of judaism. It was not designed to change the way men think or believe as much as to change the way they act.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

  Arthur Miller

  Smile, Men, Earthquakes

  Death of a Salesman (1949) "Requiem"

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• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Anniversary, Honesty, War

  "Garrett Hedlund: 'Life is fun when you're in motion'". Interview with Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

  Jim Ramstad

  Anniversary, Long, Important

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• Babies are a great way to start people.

  Don Herold

  Baby, People

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• Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
  For the most if not for the best of men:
  You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
  So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Birthday, Night, Men

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Men, Years

  Mark Twain's seventieth birthday speech at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City, www.pbs.org. 1905.

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• Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday

  Billie Jean King

  Birthday, Blessing, Light

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• Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day!

  Julie McGregor

  Birthday, Wish, Wonderful

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• I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.

  Amy Hempel

  Envy, Waiting, Tumbling

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