"Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish."
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"The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost."
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"No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood."
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"Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness"
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"The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance."
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"Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but agreement between ideals, aspirations and deeds is key to a life of peace, happiness and success."
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"Along the way, I've worked as a waitress, I've done phone surveys, and worked as a receptionist, and for the last twenty years I've taught. When I was an actor, the key was to find a job that kept your days free to audition."
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"Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community."
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"The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
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"Historically, Labour has used technology as a form of control. We would use pagers and faxes to send out messages telling people what line to take. The key learning from the Obama campaign is to use technology to empower your supporters."
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"We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific."
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"I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers maybe had the key to them."
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"If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to which it used to be hidden in mine - which I consider probable, as I have no particular reason to suspect myself of having been a monstrosity - it is the key to many reservations."
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"I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!"
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"The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag."
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"So many doors forever. There were never enough. Each door had several locks. One lock was combination. Another required keys. Another was a simple side latch. Another was strictly ornamental. Another you could open by whispering the right thing to it at the right time, which is the type of lock most humans have."
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"I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation."
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"Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees."
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"Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers."
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"The key to success is to develop a winning edge."
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