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• Golden Rule”: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.

  Hillel the Elder

  Golden, Hateful, Torah

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• Professionally, I decided to commit a lot
  of my time to California because there
  wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.

  Alice Barrett

  New York, California, Commit

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• Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• Cry the Gospel with your whole life.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Cry, Whole Life

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• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

  Jan Struther

  Couple, Successful, Trying

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• Jazz is so difficult. A lot of people think once they've learned these licks they can get up and play them for the rest of their life. But that's not being truthful to the music 'cause it's not developing. Cats you hear that don't make no mistakes? They ain't trying to do nothing. everything they hear is on the mark, but they've played it so many times... I've built a whole career out of making mistakes!

  Lester Bowie

  Mistake, Cat, Thinking

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• We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

  H. Allen Smith

  Laughter, Believe, Race

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• Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.

  Andrew Schneider

  Weakness, Firsts, Divine

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• One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

  Andrew Schneider

  Change, Two, People

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Cicely')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, May 18, 1992.

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• I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth and see where the characters fit in and what they ought to be doing-all those archetypes are there to play with.

  John Boorman

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Skills, Gloves, Language

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• Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

  Mike Judge

  Kings, Thinking, Yellow

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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Growth, Patterns

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• I wish I could play the whole game and come back tomorrow.

  Angela Ruggiero

  Games, Play, Wish

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• Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

  Bernd Heinrich

  Sports, Running, Fundamentals

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• Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)

  David Bentley Hart

  Epic, Church, Desire

  David Bentley Hart (2004). “The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth”, p.17, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Dream, Waiting, Destroyed

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• Most short stories have but one plot. The very best, however, have what I call a plot-and-a-half – that is, a main plot and a small subplot that feeds in a twist or an unexpected piece of business that ads crunch and flavor to the story as a whole.

  Elizabeth Sims

  Writing, Twists, Plot

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• I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

  John Nelson Darby

  Simplicity, Church, Add

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• We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil.

  Midge Decter

  Light, Oil, Middle East

  "Neo-Cons in Doubt about the War in Iraq". KCRW Podcast "To the Point" with Warren Olney, www.kcrw.com. May 21, 2004.

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• This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

  Charles Ferguson

  Victory, Tails, Force

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• In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

  Ken Danby

  Details, Useless, Sake

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• It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Attitude, Loneliness

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• But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

  George Saintsbury

  Melancholy, Century

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.162, tredition

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• A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Simple, Men, Lessons

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