“Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?”
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“Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?”
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“Junior Blender is a hardcore dancehall head. He's in Supersonic, which is one of the top soundclash sound-systems in Europe.”
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“It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.”
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“The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this cou...”
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“Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.”
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“Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for all of their meals. I...”
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“A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.”
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“For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've al...”
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“Any time you get a new running back, whether it's a rookie or hasn't played a lot, that's the first thing you test, is their pass protection. That's big.”
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“The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.”
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“The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.”
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“I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other peo...”
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“There's no better medicine for the soul than knowing you aren't alone.”
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“High self respect is a characteristic that we earn from our environment by showing courtesy and naturally exhibiting behaviors that can praise others about the output of our intellectual acc...”
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“Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying...”
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“Ric Flair, as great was and a hard worker as he was, he just tends to get lost in the ring.”
“If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet,...”
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“True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.”
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“In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations for no-fly enforcement in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.”
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“The fact is that HBO is doing the kind of films and the kind of stories that the movie industry used to do. You look at a lot of the specialty sections of studios that have gone under... and...”
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“Quitting is the easiest thing to do.”
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“By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.”
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“We will get our people off of welfare and back to work - rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.”
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“'Imposter Syndrome' is the feeling of wearing a mask and playing a role that one does not feel at home in. It is when you feel like you or your work is a fluke and that you're a dwarf amongs...”
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“In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive.”
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“It is impossible for Stream to achieve unhappiness. Indeed it is. Unless that is, it exists in consciousness. It is impossible for the unordered to achieve happiness or unhappiness unless it...”
“The Kingdom of God lies within thee.”
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“You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.”
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“Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator a...”
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“The word 'happiness' always bothered me, partly because it was scientifically unwieldy and meant a lot of different things to different people, and also because it's subjective.”
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“You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.”
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“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
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“Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.”
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“To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a...”
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“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.”
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“I grew up listening to all kinds of music. When I came up, you would hear people like Marvin Gaye talking about Sarah Vaughan. You would go to a show and see Ella Fitzgerald performing the m...”
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“In countries or places where an appropriate grass surface is not an option, then turf is indeed a great alternative. But that is only when grass does not or cannot grow.”
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“There's a lot of talent out there with just the normal physique. The 'cross-fit' type physique - that's the new exercise that took over.”
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“We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.”
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“The reason Buddhism can be so naturalised is because, stripped of its supernatural elements, its core teachings can be giving a sound, secular philosophical interpretation. In other words, i...”
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“Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done d...”
“We should not only look at the short-term economic benefits of fossil fuels but also at the bad news for climate change. We should therefore not greet the fossil fuel age unconditionally.”
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“I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.”
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“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”
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“And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible fo...”
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“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”
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“The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.”
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“There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and accepta...”
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