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I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring. From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I… — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
Open the curtains of your mind, my friend; let the world know who you are! Do not hide your ideas; set them… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
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Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven’s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
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In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
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In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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