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Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an… — David Rock
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. — Elsa Peretti
All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into… — Hermann Hesse
I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This… — Marcus Aurelius
The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values. — James A. Garfield
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere
My aging body transmits an ageless life stream. Molecular and atomic replacement change life's composition. Molecules take part in structure and in training, countless trillions… — Charles Lindbergh
It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the… — C.S. Lewis
Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank… — Charles Caleb Colton
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from… — William Hazlitt
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy… — John Dryden
When I look over my past, I see that the stages in my life are like the phases of the moon. I've had periods where… — Amy Neftzger
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as… — Karl Marx
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving… — Rita Mae Brown
Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of… — Matthew Fox
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. — Anatole France

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