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“Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none-and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes that notion is metaphorical and sometimes not. In this way, I have been inspired to attempt things I would have never dreamed possible. And it all started with a single step.”

Source: To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

“Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.”

“Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.”

Has Beens Party Steps Taken Atheism Europe Positive Atheism Spite Every Step

Author:Victor Hugo

“There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.”

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Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“Whenever the true message of the cross is abolished, the anger of hypocrites and heretics ceases.. and all things are in peace. This is a sure token that the devil is guarding the entry to the house, and that the PURE doctrine of God's Word has been taken away. The Church then, is in the BEST state when Satan assaileth it on every sideboth with subtle sleights, and outright violence. And likewise, it is in the WORST state when it is most at peace!”

Has Beens States House Church Taken Violence Worst Pure Messages Devil All Things Crosses Cease Doctrine Satan Subtle Hypocrite Entry Heretic Tokens Guarding

Author:Martin Luther

“'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have been taken off now.”

Has Beens Stills Taken Restraint

Author:Jonathan Banks

“Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need to full perfection brought. The daring of the soul proceeds from thence, Sharpness of wit, and active diligence; Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives; And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

“It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.”

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Book:The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield

“I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?”

People Long Has Beens War Asks Taken Vietnam Savages Vietnam War Bombing

Book:Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977

Source: Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977

“Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.”

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Author:Richard Avedon

“For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.”

“I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.”

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Author:Marion Barry

“I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.”

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Author:Ai-jen Poo

“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.”

World Has Beens Taken Grace Prepared Grace Of God Away From You

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.”

Persons Has Beens Self Religion Opportunity Church Known Taken Rights Industry Exercise Judgment Conscience Fruit Organized Self Respect Robbery

Book:Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

Source: Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

“Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.”

People Want Years Humans Kind Has Beens Use Seems Human Beings Taken Drug Years Ago Alcohol All Kinds Marijuana Tobacco Propensity

Author:Mick Jagger

“I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.”

Has Beens Reason Animal Beauty Forever Rich Taken Color Depends Bird Constitution Insects Arbitrary Inseparable

Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Different Hands Results Views Taken Position Red Destruction Should Have Army Campaigns Fighter Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided Red Army

Author:Aleksandr Vasilevsky

“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”

Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism

“The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish.”

Has Beens Moments Careers Taken Cherish Unbelievable Great Moments

Author:Steve Largent

“A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the discussion is complicated by the fact that many eminent servants of humanity have been nominal Christians, of one or other of the sects. My allegation will be that the special services rendered to human progress by these exceptional men have not been in consequence of their adhesion to Christianity, but in spite of it, and that the specific points of advantage to human kind have been in ratio of their direct opposition to precise Biblical enactments.”

Source: Has Humanity Gained from Unbelief?: Two Nights Debate Between Marsden Gibson and Charles Bradlaugh at Newcastle-on-Tyne

“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.”

Has Beens Real Whole Moving Political Force Deals Roles Economy Taken Growing Progress Economic Miracle Democratic China Russia Political Systems Democratic Society Economic Progress

Author:Milton Friedman

“Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.”

Ifs Has Beens Force Decision Virtue Taken Greater Dissent Eloquent

Book:Name-Dropping: From FDR On

Source: Name-Dropping: From FDR On

“Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.”

Source: Escape from Reason

“Consider this: all the ants on the planet, taken together, have a biomass greater than that of humans. Ants have been incredibly industrious for millions of years. Yet their productiveness nourishes plants, animals, and soil. Human industry has been in full swing for little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.”

“The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over.”

Men World Has Beens War Hands Existence Taken Policy Threat Species Seven Mortals Foreign Policy Survived

Author:John F. Kennedy

“It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.”

Has Beens Matter Facts Walks Gone Taken

Book:The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

Source: The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

“Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.”

Years Has Beens Taken Spring Defeat Greece

Author:Herodotus

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“Two of the actors, Sean Bean and Orlando Bloom, have been caught between two landslides and are now trapped in a tiny town in the middle of the South Island. They have been taken in by a kindly woman who has offered them food and a bed. They were last reported to be cooking spaghetti and cracking into a bottle of red wine.”

Has Beens Two Lasts Actors Taken Middle Bed Red Towns Cooking Wine South Caught Tiny Islands Bottles Trapped Beans Sean Spaghetti Red Wine Orlando Landslides

Author:Peter Jackson

“... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they don't know me and I don't know them because all we had was taken away from us. And I became kind of angry; I felt the anger of why this had to happen to us. We were so stripped and robbed of our background, we wind up with nothing.”

People Knows Kind Has Beens I Can Happens Left Felt Taken Wind Slavery Angry Backgrounds Oppression Know Me Could Have Been

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“The interpretation of thought as ""inner speech" has taken different forms, and has been used to clarify a variety of problems--thus problems pertaining to the logical forms of thought and the connection of thought with things.”

Thinking Has Beens Different Problem Form Used Taken Speech Connections Variety Thoughtful Logical Interpretation Intentionality

Book:Science and metaphysics: variations on Kantian themes

Source: Science and metaphysics: variations on Kantian themes

“The silliness-much of which is clearly intentional-is blended with some genuine grandeur. The Pixar touch is evident in the precision of the visual detail and in the wit and energy of Michael Giacchino's score, but the quality control that has been exercised over this project also has a curiously undermining effect. The movie eagerly sells itself as semitrashy, almost-campy fun, but it is so lavish and fussy that you can't help thinking that it wants to be taken seriously, and therefore you laugh at, rather than with, its mock sublimity.”

“Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.”

Giving Has Beens Dies Taken Son Horse Very Good Broke Necks Ruined Acquisition Your Son

Author:Winston Churchill

“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?”

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

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Author:Roger Clemens

“In Sparta, paintings have been taken out of certain walls by cutting through the bricks, then have been placed in wooden frames, and so brought to the Comitium to adorn the aedileship of [C. Visellius] Varro and [C. Licinius] Murena.”

Has Beens Certain Taken Cutting Painting Wall Bricks Sparta

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.”

Wells Kind Has Beens Play Situation Taken Pieces Advantage Stones Heat Exposed Salt Frost Quarry

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers].”

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Author:Louis Thomas McFadden

“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”

Has Beens Might Care Law Poor Responsibility Taken Members Property Profession Unfortunate Helpless Social Responsibility Might Have Been Protector

Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“Necessary preparations have been discussed and taken for the complete and fundamental elimination of this concern, which occupies an important place in the exalted state's list of vital issues.”

Has Beens Important States Issues Taken Concern Fundamentals Lists Preparation Exalted Elimination

Author:Talaat Pasha

“And now having a child has been taken out of the sphere of biological determinism and placed instead in the domain of intentional action. Another option to consider and decide upon. And ... not to choose is to choose.”

Children Has Beens Action Taken Spheres Domain Determinism Decide Upon

Book:The Mind-Body Problem

Source: The Mind-Body Problem

“I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much.”

Want Has Beens Made Country Facts Seems Taken Risk Possibility Claims Regard Flight Our Country Prestige Great Risk

Author:John F. Kennedy

“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.”

Life Has Beens Courses Careers Taken Drug Negative Tests Performances Performance Enhancing Drugs

Author:Mohamed Farah

“And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!”

Source: Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction

“To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.”

People Long Has Beens Sin Taken Land Honest Position Return Resolution Observers Zimbabwe Overdue

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“We go hard. In everything we do we're going to accomplish our victory and our goal. If it takes a day, a year, or 20 years, we're going to win. I haven't taken a loss because everything I've done has been a working process to win. From being a kid on them turntables to becoming where I am is not a loss. It's a blessing.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Hard Done Kids Winning Process Goal Loss Taken Havens Becoming Victory Blessing Accomplish Key To Success Being A Kid Go Hard Turntables

Author:DJ Khaled