We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.


Raoul Vaneigem

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That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
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Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
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Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa...
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Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
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If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it
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Why are you suggesting something… then deny to tell the whole thing?
DEYTH BANGER
Do. Then talk. In that order.
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If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
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You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a...
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Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
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God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
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The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
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I love my destruction. Cause I still love the cause of my destruction -Anshika
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She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
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She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
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You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
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Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
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His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
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I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
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It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
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The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
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Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
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You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
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Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
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If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if t...
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Just get it right, “it is not too late to dream”. You can do it now! This very moment, I mean ri...
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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
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Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
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If you can say it... it's obvious.
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The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
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The value of routine; trusting your swing.
LORII MYERS
Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it!
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Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE
You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid...
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If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l...
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Don't dream it, be it.
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When we cut down an destroy rain forests we are not only killing living things that have been on thi...
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I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
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To find that things are never what they seem no matter what way you look at it is an eye opener inde...
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You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidew...
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It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l...
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dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
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The only thing to do with good advice is to carry it and pass it on; it is never of any use if you d...
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Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER
In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON
If it’s history, let it be history.
BEN TOLOSA
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.
HODA KOTB
Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT
Do it and they will follow
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Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
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If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
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It was more a feeling of hunger than anything else.
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That's how it happen!
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You are unbelievably sexy.
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Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant!

If you can honestly say that you are fully awar...
LORII MYERS
Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve.
LORII MYERS
Your desire to succeed must overpower your fear of failure!
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I think what was here before is still here... the thing that has shown up every twenty-seven years o...
STEPHEN KING
Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes wi...
STEVE MCCONNELL
They float, they all float... and when you're down here with me, fat boy, you'll float too.
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Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
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You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.
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If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON
If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS
It ain't bragging if you can do it.
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I had to agree with one ex-boyfriend of one crackhead complainant who'd gone missing, when he told m...
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People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER
Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA
To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
NARGIS FAKHRI
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER
Pain has creative power,
Let the magic unfold...
HENNA SOHAIL
Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!
DEYTH BANGER
Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film)
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Maybe you've never fallen into a frozen stream. Here's what happens.
1. It is cold. So cold tha...
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When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a si...
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More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
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When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th...
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If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
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You own the first day of your life. You own the last. And you own everything in between.
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When you say, "I can't do it!" - You never will.
But, if you say, "I'll give it a try," eventua...
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
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She parted her lips as though she were going to scold him, but, after a moment of sitting with her m...
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At the limit of determination is only inability
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35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
This is too much reality for a Friday.
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Its not what the universe gives us that matters, but what we give the universe
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To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

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