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The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves to go back… — Heber J. Grant
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most… — Samuel Johnson
Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I… — Neil Peart
Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same… — Paulo Coelho
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature. — Julio Cortazar
Any medical man who predicts exactly when a patient will die, or exactly how long he will live, is bound to make a fool of… — Agatha Christie
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people… — Amos Tversky
Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national… — Sarah Palin
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon
Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was — Paul Muldoon
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself — Laurell K. Hamilton
It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't… — Fabian Cancellara
Other nights ... I visualize to the point that I know exactly what I want to do: dive, glide, stroke, flip, reach the wall, hit… — Michael Phelps
Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking… — Allan Gurganus
I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. — Lucian Freud
The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to… — Assata Shakur
Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result. — Alan Turing
Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and… — Unknown Author
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . .… — John Lennon
I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids. — Baruch Spinoza

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