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Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The mind is a vagrant thing ... Thinking is not analogous to a person working in a laboratory who invents something on… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I have written some songs, but I would really call what I've done poetry at the end of the day, because I'll… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book… — Kelly McEvers Copy Share Image
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The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers,… — William D. Cohan Copy Share Image
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Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on… — Robert Schimmel Copy Share Image
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery.… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Night is done, gone the moon, gone the stars From the skies. Fades the black of night Comes the morn with rosy… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I write pretty fast, probably faster than most people. But I might think about something for six hours, then write it in… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Wikipedia took the idea of peer review and applied it to volunteers on a global scale, becoming the most important English reference… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
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He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Next time you bump your head, try to imagine being a monkey and getting a steel plate smashed into your skull at… — Rikki Rockett Copy Share Image
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed by those people who get up at 5 and write till 8 and then eat a peach and walk… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies.… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while… — Arca Copy Share Image
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That's the thing about stage: It's something you can't find anywhere else. It's a two-and-a-half, three-hour experience, and it's a real relationship.… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
All "bad" presentations struggle to keep the audience interested. The audience squirms wishing they could escape. The audience has given the presenter… — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image