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When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“was I chosen?’ ‘Such questions cannot be answered,’ said Gandalf. ‘You may be sure that it was not for any merit that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our… — Will Self Copy Share Image
A person who is obsessed with Jesus is more concerned with his or her character than comfort. Obsessed people know that true… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
A self is, by its very essence, a being with a past. One must look lengthwise backwards in the stream of time… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give… — Christopher J. H. Wright Copy Share Image
“Does it really mater whether you are the Chosen One or not?' Harry had to mull that one over for a few… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Being is so significant that it is irreplaceable. You are just yourself. Do something that comes out of you - not to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Indecisiveness and procrastination are the chosen ways of life for most people. They follow the course of least resistance, which is to… — David Peoples Copy Share Image
I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in… — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think… — André Brink Copy Share Image
In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part. To sleep for a season and hear no word Of true love's… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a… — Bruce Kent Copy Share Image
When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious… — Joan Raphael-Leff Copy Share Image
Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from… — Joshua Fernandez Copy Share Image
My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
In whatever manner God created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order. God, however, has… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures,… — Rob Pike Copy Share Image
It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy… — Dennis Holme Robertson Copy Share Image
Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I have never imagined being or wished to be chosen as something important in the world. I have always tried to be… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
