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Becoming awarrior and facing yourself is a question of honesty rather than condemning yourself. By looking at yourself, you may find that… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
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We've never pulled from the toy line. We've always pulled from the mythology. What's great is there's so much mythology, so there's… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
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No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
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A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
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I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Murdoc is sort of the, um, it’s his band. He sort of put Gorillaz together. It’s his idea. But he’s sort of… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
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The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
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Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
"National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some men develop their own singularity. Football makes men conform to stereotypes: the warrior or the hunter. Football produces a certain kind… — Orlan Copy Share Image
I love the idea of doing comedy, whether it's action comedy or just straight comedy. It's such a big, new world for… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Once the steam engine went away and we started moving into burning fossil fuels - not just burning them, but everything we… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
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I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
My understanding about nutrition is not what I'd like it to be, so for a long time my dieting strategy was very… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
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