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Even a man's exact imitation of the song of the nightingale displeases us when we discover that it is a mimicry, and not the nightingale.
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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.
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Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves...
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Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
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Whenever people talk about Don and I recording again, which almost everybody usually mentions, I always say 'Well, there's plenty of things that you haven't heard! Plenty of things out there to discover!'
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I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part of the beauty of life on Earth - that we discover and develop what it means to be Muslim or Christian or Jewish not in isolation from others, but precisely in relationship with others.
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I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.
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You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.
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We need to discover the root causes of success rather than the root causes of failure.
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You don’t create things, you discover things.
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In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?
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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
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Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
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It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.
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Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
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It was foolish to indulge in elaborate preconceptions: anticipation was a featherweight, doomed to compete with the inevitable, convincing bulk of reality. The trouble was that one had to face reality without knowing beforehand precisely what it was to be. One had somehow to discover and tread the hard, between the sloughs of fearing the worst and hoping for the best.
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You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!
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When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.
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Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about.
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The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling.
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.
