"My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!"
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"In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper."
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"Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too."
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"We’re built of contradictions, all of us. It’s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I’ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradictions to balance him will soon veer off."
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"Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product."
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"We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be."
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"The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively."
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"For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all."
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"For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness."
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"I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return."
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"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon."
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"Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table."
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"Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood"
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"The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold."
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"Each member of the community gives himself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as he actually is, himself and all his forces, including all goods in his possession."
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"And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world."
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"I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be."
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"We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!"
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"I think it is absurd to give such tremendous importance to the distinctions between men and women. When I meet someone I regard that person as a human being. I do not say "This is a man; this is a woman.""
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"When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others"
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