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• There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

  Robert Brault

  People, Realizing, Default

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• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Gone, World

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

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• Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
  Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
  That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
  Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
  Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Self Love

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• This whole moment is the groin
  Of a borborygmic giant who even now
  Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Sleep

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Well, you know, I have always had an issue with the whole weight thing with people in general because I happen to love how big women look. I mean, it's all a perspective. It's all an opinion, and I think sort of the Rubenesque, voluptuous body is a lot sexier than the boney bag of bones with fake everything.

  Debi Mazar

  Mean, Thinking, Issues

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third person perspective of a different character, so you get to see the whole world a little more kaleidoscopically that way. That's traditional narrative manner, and I haven't done a book like that before, but I enjoyed it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Book, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Religious, Real, Mistake

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• I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

  Lucien Carr

  Interesting, Want, Firsts

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• Everyone has something of beauty about them. But loving let's you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as why's, you can love those parts too, and it's a love at once more complicated and more complete.

  Ally Condie

  Love, Beautiful, Hands

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

  Tim Duncan

  Running, Play, Motto

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• I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

  Paul Pierce

  Sports, Team, Player

  Interview with Jeff Lenchiner, www.insidehoops.com. November 5, 2003.

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• Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

  Donatella Versace

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

  Harriet Martineau

  Voice, People, Silent

  Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.63

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• I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book

  Michael W. Smith

  Powerful, Book, Forgotten

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• I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.

  Michael W. Smith

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.

  TobyMac

  Soul, World, Gains

  Song: Lose My Soul

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• I don't wanna go throught the motions
  I don't wanna go one more day
  Without your all-consuming
  Passion inside of me
  I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
  What if I had given everything?
  Instead of going through the motions.

  Matthew West

  Passion, What If, Asking

  Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers

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• It's such a biblical posture in worship that speaks of reverence. If you look through the Bible, there's a whole host of people who faced up to the glory of God and found themselves facedown in worship. So the album weaves through a theme of reverence, wonder, and mystery in worship, things I feel we really need to grasp more of in our worship expressions. I know that I do!

  Matt Redman

  Biblical, Expression, People

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• There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they are there, but they are not in the Lord's mind because He made the whole thing, so there is a way, if we are smart enough, to understand them so that we will not have any contradictions.

  Henry J. Eyring

  Smart, Worry, Mind

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• Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

  Rebecca Wells

  Long, Want, Sometimes

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• Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Drinking, Sleep, Fighting

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Simple, Together

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Fighting, Loss, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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