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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one. ↗

— Glen Campbell

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ↗

— John Updike

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As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

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I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. ↗

— Karen Carpenter

#determined #easier #having #i #makes

You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#behind #challenge #character #convey #create

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

#choose #future #hour #liberate #past

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness. ↗

— Marilyn Ferguson

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