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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentrationâ€”studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancingâ€”are associated with a… — Norman Doidge
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best… — David Sedaris
I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this… — Laurie Halse Anderson
The reason this system canâ€™t be overthrown in this country,â€ Walter said, â€œis all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered… — Jonathan Franzen
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen. — Nicholas Sparks
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Anthony: Now lower your dress a little- Roslynn: Anthony! Anthony: This is no time for offended modesty... You're the distraction. Roslynn: Och, well, in that… — Johanna Lindsey
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that… — Michael Lewis
And there are vampires, too? Werewolves, warlocks, all that stuff?" Clary gnawed her lower lip. "So I hear." "And you kill them, too?" Simon asked,… — Cassandra Clare
Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her… — Rachel Caine
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes… — Ramana Maharshi
Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God… — Andrew Murray
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. — Tim Ferriss
I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more… — F B Meyer
Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical… — Ned Vizzini
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and… — John Adams
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of… — Fulton J. Sheen
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast… — Steven Pinker

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