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  • The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
  • I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
  • And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
  • Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
  • The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
  • I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
  • The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
  • Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
  • I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Caroll Spinney Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Stephen R. Covey People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Denis Waitley A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Pablo Casals Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Bob Rae History has only ended for those caught inside the Marxist hothouse. For the rest of us the argument is just getting interesting.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Three, The End of Government?, p. 54
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Stephen R. Covey It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Boris Pasternak The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
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    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Angela Carter A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Campbell Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • John Banville All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
    John Banville
    Irish writer (1945 - )
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