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  • Jerome of Stridon When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
    Jerome of Stridon
    Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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  • William Butler Yeats When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bruce Dickinson When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. [2]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Bill Gates When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Michael LeBoeuf When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Blythe Danner Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Brad Feld While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Henry Miller Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anna Freud Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Virginia Woolf Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Antony Jay You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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