Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
Huston Smith
Recitation: by Male by Female
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
John Millington Synge
GoodWalkManIslandFollowFirst
The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.
Anna Kendrick
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Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?
Michael Ignatieff
FeelPersonAssumeBritishMustWho
The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.
Amy Morin
QualitySleepLearnInformationNew
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.
Stacy Schiff
WomenPoliticsWomanFlyLearnMay
What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.
Robert Dallek
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People traveling to malaria-prone areas can protect themselves by taking steps such as taking antimalarial drugs, using insect repellent, sleeping under insecticide-treated bed-nets, and wearing protective clothing.
Tom Frieden
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That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.
Roger Ebert
BetterHelpThingsImagineUsThan
So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story.
Miguel de Icaza
TodayTimeStoryYouNewInvestment
Every race is different. If you come down the home straight neck and neck, the crowd cheering for you can decide the race.
Mo Farah
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Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.
Jared Polis
TimeMusiciansLadyLongHumanity
I'm not superstitious at all. I'm not a Russian.
Chelsea Handler
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