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I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I'm a very stubborn person. I think it has helped me over my career. I'm sure it has hindered me at times… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
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But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I think the way my modeling career took off, I did not expect. It was definitely not a ripple in my mind.… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind… — George Lois Copy Share Image
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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
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The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
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