Quotes with perfection-you

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  • A. S. Byatt I shall from time to time write a small Clue - so that you may be the more thoroughly confounded.
    Possession (1990)
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Adela Florence Nicolson I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
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  • Robert Browning I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • John McCain I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Andy Warhol I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Adam Osborne I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I teach you the Superman. Man is something that should be overcome.
    Original: Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas das überwunden werden soll.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Toni Morrison I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Anita Diamant I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Napoleon I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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