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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.
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Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters.
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Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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Our spirits, like our bodies, have requirements for health and growth. Some people don't want to pay the price of developing good spiritual habits.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change.
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Out in the field, I feel like I'm flexible enough to where I'm comfortable at different positions, wherever they want to put me.
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Out upon it, I have lov'd three whole days together, and am like to love three more if it proves fair weather.
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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
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Overthrowing the Final Empire seems like a good start. Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?
Mistborn: The Final Empire (2006) Kelsier, Ch. 10 -
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.
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Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
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