"The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him."
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"Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used."
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"I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people."
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"You should look at stocks as small pieces of business."
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"I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them."
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"Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces."
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"The best piece of advice Ive ever been given was, Be in the business youre in. Dont just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business youre in."
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"Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind."
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"The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces."
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"The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness."
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"We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!"
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"This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight."
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"How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?"
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"Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next."
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"It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications. [...] Indeed, the very suggestiveness of a notation may make it seem harder to learn because of the many properties it suggests for exploration."
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"Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God's conception, or nature's. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."We effectively became "time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers" with the invention of the clock.""
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"The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces."
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"The lesson that I'm learning is that I've got to be careful of being pigeonholed because people can take a piece of tape and edit out the first half and only pull out one snippet that could start a firestorm."
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"My work life makes much less sense now than 20 years ago. It's Humpty-Dumpty-like in a way; I can't put the pieces back together."
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"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass."
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