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The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.
Frank Zappa
Begins
Art
Frame
Humble
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Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
Frank Zappa
Deviance
Success
Progress
Normality
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden
Keep
Joyfulness
Heart
Face
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Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
Francis of Assisi
Love
Enriched
Earth
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
Orison Swett Marden
Upright
You
Honest
Interest
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The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
Francis of Assisi
Ever
Life
Effort
Failure
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He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist
Francis of Assisi
Artist
Art
Hand
Head
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adverse
Blows
Brave
Fortune
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
Max Weber
Apparatus
Bureaucratic
Compares
Developed
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
Max Weber
Chance
Context
Even
Impose
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
Max Weber
Appeared
Communist
Conception
Crude
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.
Max Weber
Agents
Concern
Criminal
Criminal Justice
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
Max Weber
Among
Distribution
Either
Groups
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
Max Weber
Confines
Exists
Hall
Integrity
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I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.
Mick Jagger
Am
Done
Good
Good Thing
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My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger
Always
Been
Like
Mother
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
Francis of Assisi
While
Proclaiming
Peace
Your
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden
Expectations
Opens
Closes
Doors
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden
Destiny
Changes
Thought
Become
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If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.
Francis of Assisi
Endure
Patiently
Gladness
Thinking
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine
Attained
Contradictory
Experience
Find
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If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.
Dwayne Johnson
Alien
Also
Average
Bigger
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
Saint Augustine
Help
Lord
Me
Pure
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine
Earth
God
Had
Never
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
Orison Swett Marden
Secret
Happiness
Contented
Cheerful
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But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.
Dwayne Johnson
Always
Atlanta
Being
Best
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden
Outlook
Estimate
Yourself
Value
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With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!
Dwayne Johnson
With
Action
Films
Great
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Orhan Pamuk
Patience
Without
Skill
Craftsman
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Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.
Francis Chan
Don't
Fall
Into
Trap
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I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit. I want people to look at my life and know I couldn't be doing this by my own power. I want to live in such a way that I am desperate for Him to come through. That if He doesn't come through, I am screwed.
Francis Chan
Don't
Want
Life
Explainable
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He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.
Francis Chan
Nothing
Christ
Absurd
Christian
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
Francis Chan
Relationship
God
Simply
Cannot
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Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
Francis Chan
Marriage
Most
Humbling
Sanctifying
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I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.
Francis Chan
Want
Joy
Knowing
AM
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The best things in life are gifts from the One who steadfastly loves us. But an important question to ask ourselves is this: are we in love with God or just His stuff?
Francis Chan
Best
Things
Life
Gifts
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Mankind's greatest error, the biggest deception of the past thousand years is this: to confuse poverty with stupidity.
Orhan Pamuk
Greatest
Error
Biggest
Deception
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If I were not a Catholic, and were looking for the true Church in the world today, I would look for the one Church which did not get along well with the world; in other words, I would look for the Church which the world hated.
Fulton J. Sheen
Catholic
Were
Looking
True
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
Bear
Closest
Eye
Her
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
Away
Because
Companions
Different
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
Ahead
Behind
Compared
Lies
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It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.
Orhan Pamuk
Happen
First
Instant
But
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If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.
Orhan Pamuk
If
We
Give
Treasure
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True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.
Orhan Pamuk
True
Literature
More
Than
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Advances
Common
Confidently
Direction
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Henry David Thoreau
Because
Companions
Desperate
Different
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Alone
Another
Goes
Man
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Appears
Both
Cannot
Deep
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All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.
Orhan Pamuk
All
Great
Master
Work
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau
Earth
Intelligence
Leaves
Mould
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