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  • Mike Leonard Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
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  • Maya Angelou Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ''I'm with you kid. Let's go.''
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Carlo Ratti Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Bob Dylan Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Napoleon Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Erica Jong Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Anaxagoras Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
    Anaxagoras
    Greek philosopher (500 - 428)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Napoleon Hill More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill McKibben Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Branford Marsalis My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aristotle No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Ben Carson Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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