"When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?"
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"Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone."
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"Do not let anyone else run your business"
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"The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation."
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"Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing."
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"Hillary Clinton announced she's running for president. Yesterday in Ohio, Hillary popped into a Chipotle and she ordered a burrito bowl with chips and salsa. And on her way out she said, 'That locks down the Hispanic vote.'"
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"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
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"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."
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"Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled."
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"I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will."
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"I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo."
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"Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it"
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"Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity."
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"An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience."
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"It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet."
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"Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that sun-kissed hue. If I reach out to touch her She’ll just run away My Forever and Always Will have to wait another day."
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"A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport."
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"Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity."
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"Better to avoid than run, better to run than de-escalcate, better to de-escalate than fight, better to fight than die."
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"My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me."
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