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When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.

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• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

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• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

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• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

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• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

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• I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

  

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• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  

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• India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

  

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• I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.

  

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• I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.

  

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• My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

  

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• The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

  

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• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

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• Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

  

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• In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

  

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• I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

  

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• I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

  

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• If you’ve had to overcome an obstacle or insecurity or fear... genuinely you can bet on that person because they have gathered themselves and found through their inner strength, they have determination, they have grit.

  

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• We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to 'The Most Beautiful Moment in Life' beautifully.

  

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• One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.

  

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• When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.

  

  Harper Lee