I was very young. I thought I knew a lot and I really didn't. I trusted the wrong people. ~Tia Carrere
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~John Calvin
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Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. ~Dan Brown
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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It's hard to be a good doctor if you don't think about the social circumstances of who you're treating. There are many Tory doctors, but I think it's difficult to be a doctor and a genuine right winger. ~Robert Winston
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I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. ~Charlize Theron
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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I don't trust a lot of journalists. ~Calvin Klein
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Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull. ~Brandon Sanderson
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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them. ~Bill Harley
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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Surrender means wisely accommodating ourselves to what is beyond our control. ~Sylvia Boorstein
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The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up. ~Susan Cain
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
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We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. ~Suzanne Collins
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination. ~Albert Einstein
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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The healing of ourselves as healers has to take place first. Bringing ourselves to wholeness, we become more sensitive to other people. In the change of consciousness that happens within us, we bring about change of consciousness in those around us and in the planet itself. ~Marion Woodman
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Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~Zach Johnson
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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. ~Michel de Montaigne
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