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"Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music."
"What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me."
"The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes."
"I was able to get a few words out that Scott Peterson was the Scott Peterson that had a missing, pregnant wife and ... I just shook. They said I was there probably like an hour and it just seemed like a moment ... I couldn't stop shaking. So I was, I guess, in shock."
"I miss my brother. Prince was a funny cat. Great sence of humor."
"Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat."
"To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination."
"Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out."
"It's always fun having Matt Davis on set. I definitely miss having him around, for sure."
"Your village just called. They're missing an idiot."
"Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing."
"However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
"Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available."
"It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation."
"The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring."
"The cost of hiring someone bad is so much greater than missing out on someone good."
"Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you."
"It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is that you're imagining you're missing. It is so much more peaceful."
"First up, the lost and found has gone missing. It itself, is lost. So please try not to lose anything until we find it."
"We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence."
