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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
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Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you’re the same beautiful,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that… — Ben E. King Copy Share Image
Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
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So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession… — Hammurabi Copy Share Image
Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Wretched unfair, it is,” he remarked. “Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a… — Helen Joseph Copy Share Image
Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away… — Ma-Roo Copy Share Image
... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it.… — African Spir Copy Share Image
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No one in my family had ever attended school [...] On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
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I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2002, we had spent six weeks shooting the three pilots of Mythbusters, and Jamie[Hyneman] called me up afterward… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
You know,” Cole said. “My mom once told me a boy would know he’d become a man when he stopped putting himself… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
If a young man gets married, and starts a family and spends the rest of his life working at a soul-destroying job,… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings… — Rudolph Schoenheimer Copy Share Image
This is an important distinction, because most of the modern philosophies that deny that we can know reality, and ultimately truth, make… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
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