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You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.
Bernard Cornwell
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Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.
John Whitmore (racing driver)
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It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.
Vicesimus Knox
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Yet as I watch the marvelous engineer Guess at wind-pressure, and on favoring wind Send forth at will her silk from stores within, One message for men's souls I seem to hear "Let others live to eat, I eat to spin, Joy's soul is work: God helps the worker's mind!"
Hardwicke Rawnsley
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For him no silver cressets shed their light,
No eager joy-bells sounded through the night
From city minster, or from village tower;
No loud "hurrahs," sent from deep-chested men,
Lifted the midnight mist from off the glen
In celebration of his natal hour.
John Stanyan Bigg
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Listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy — let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... — ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.
Jonathan Stroud
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In the gloaming, Oh my darling!
When the lights are dim and low,
And the quiet shadows falling
Softly come and softly go.
Meta Orred
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Walking about? With a hole in his forehead full of maggots" "Aye. It were like a damn fisherman's tub.
Adam Thorpe
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We were also misled by M. Michelin's use of the word "impracticable". "Impracticable," we argued with a careful exercise in semantics, leaves just a chance. More than that. As we thought about it, it seemed to give a broad hint that the road was passable to the young and the determined in sturdy motor cars. "Impracticable" - scratched paintwork, discomfort, difficult finding petrol stations, shortage of good restaurants - these it seemed were the sort of hazards the urbane Michelin was trying to convey to us. Alas, he was not.
John Pearson
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Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.
Lisa Jewell
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Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.
Neal Asher
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
Mary Augusta Ward
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In every generation
The young acquire an image of their elders
Tranquil, assured, with every day mapped out
From punctual meals to reading by the fire.
Threescore and ten is not like that at all
We find on getting there.
Anne Ridler
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Remember that God under the Law ordained a Lamb to be offered up to Him every Morning and Evening.
Thomas Ken
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We are the silver people, the Mongols. When they ask, tell them there are no tribes. Tell them I am khan of the sea of grass, and they will know me by that name, as Genghis. Yes, tell them that. Tell them that I am Genghis and I will ride.
Conn Iggulden
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A man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska—sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.
Of C. P. Snow
Francis King
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Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings;
Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
Richard Gifford
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I've wandered east, I've wandered west,
Through mony a weary way;
But never, never can forget
The love o' life's young day!
William Motherwell
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Wouldst thou view the Lion's den? Search afar from haunts of men — Where the reed-encircled rill, Oozes from the rocky hill, By its verdure far descried 'Mid the desert brown and wide.
Thomas Pringle
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I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant...
Mary Butts
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The impulse here is to make everything larger than life, almost to overrespond, maybe because, habituated to life written down, in both senses, we become inured and have to be awakened with something almost intolerably vivid. When the deep purple blooms, you are looking at a dimension, not a posy.
Paul West
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Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.
Samantha Shannon
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The method of solving problems by honest confession of one's ignorance is called Algebra.
Mary Everest Boole
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Farewell to Thee! But not farewell To all my fondest thoughts of Thee; Within my heart they still shall dwell And they shall cheer and comfort me.
Anne Brontë
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And have they fixed the where, and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here's thirty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
Robert Stephen Hawker
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