 One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. Author: A. C. Benson
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| Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. Author: A. R. Ammons
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| My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. Author: Aaron Carter
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| I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter. Author: Aaron Eckhart
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| The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. Author: Abbe Pierre
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| Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them. Author: Abbie Hoffman
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| In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear. Author: Abdolkarim Soroush
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| Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. Author: Abdul Kalam
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| I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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| If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Author: Abigail Van Buren
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| A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. Author: Abraham Kuyper
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| If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them. Author: Abu Bakar Bashir
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| He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. Author: Abu Bakr
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| You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people. Author: Abu Bakr
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| Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world. Author: Ada Louise Huxtable
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| I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult. Author: Adam Ant
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| The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with. Author: Adam Arkin
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| Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so. Author: Adam Garcia
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| If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault. Author: Adam Jones
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| We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product. Author: Adam Osborne
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| After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate. Author: Adam Rickitt
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| This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero. Author: Adam Sandler
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| To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. Author: Adam Sandler
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| When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do. Author: Adam Sandler
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| If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? Author: Adam Schiff
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| Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. Author: Adam Schiff
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| As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. Author: Adam Smith
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| The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. Author: Adam Weishaupt
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| I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another. Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
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| I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own. Author: Adele Faber
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| In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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| In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes! Author: Adlai Stevenson
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| Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it. Author: Adrian Grenier
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| If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches. Author: Adrian Lyne
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| You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous. Author: Adriana Lima
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| War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult. Author: Adrien Brody
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| The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown. Author: Adrienne Rich
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| For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. Author: Aeschylus
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| The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. Author: Agnes de Mille
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| Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children. Author: Agnes Smedley
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| The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. Author: Aharon Appelfeld
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| The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. Author: Aharon Appelfeld
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| The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work. Author: Ahmad Jamal
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| In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. Author: Ahmed Ben Bella
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| Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament. Author: Ahmed Yassin
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| We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure. Author: Ahmet Necdet Sezner
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| An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. Author: Aiden Wilson Tozer
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| There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort. Author: Ajay Devgan
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| Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam. Author: Akhmad Kadyrov
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| I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it. Author: Akshay Kumar
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| I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough. Author: Akshay Kumar
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| I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting. Author: Akshay Kumar
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| The right wing has had a radio apparatus for years and years, so they've had minor leagues - they've had local rightwing guys who've become national rightwing guys, and who build slowly, and that's how it goes. We haven't had that. It isn't like we have a farm team. Author: Al Franken
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| Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. Author: Al Hirschfeld
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| Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries. Author: Al Lopez
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| One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself. Author: Al Sharpton
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| The only thing that's changed is the competitiveness of the series. It's only become harder to win in our series as the years have gone by. Competition breeds good things, and that's what's happened here. Author: Al Unser
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| I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children. Author: Alain Delon
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| It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. Author: Alan Alda
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| Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. Author: Alan Bennett
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| Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. Author: Alan Bennett
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| We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. Author: Alan Bennett
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| Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now? Author: Alan Bennett
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| Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. Author: Alan Cohen
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| Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents. Author: Alan Dundes
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| The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it. Author: Alan Dundes
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| I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. Author: Alan Hovhaness
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| Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is. Author: Alan Kay
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| When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom. Author: Alan Keyes
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| I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire. Author: Alan Kulwicki
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| Our children were trained to look after each other. Author: Alan Ladd
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| The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. Author: Alan Lomax
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| But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better. Author: Alan Shepard
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| As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. Author: Alan Thicke
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| We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be! Author: Alan Vega
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| But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. Author: Alan Watts
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| In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Author: Alan Watts
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| The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible. Author: Alan Watts
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| Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children. Author: Albert Camus
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| How hard, how bitter it is to become a man! Author: Albert Camus
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| Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. Author: Albert Camus
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| The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Author: Albert Camus
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| To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. Author: Albert Camus
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