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  • Bill Hybels When I pray, I'm not just telling God my problems, but rather I'm turning over my biggest concerns to him. It's only when I've put them in his capable hands that I can go about my day in his strength and freedom.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Seneca When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Caroline Lawrence When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Ben Okri When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Carl Hagelin When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.
    Carl Hagelin
    Swedish ice hockey player (1988 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • George Eliot When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jane Austen When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • William E. Vaughan When the insects take over the world we hope they will remember, with gratitude, how we took them along on all our picnics.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bill Hybels When the spirit of adoration takes over and we begin pondering God's attributes, we soon say from the heart, 'I am praying to a tremendous God!' Which only motivates us to keep on praying.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over the past centuries, humanity's lot has improved dramatically - in the developed world, where it is rather obvious, but also in the developing world, where life expectancy has more than doubled in the past 100 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • George Macdonald When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Thomas Carlyle When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brad Feld When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Ben Schnetzer When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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