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"The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are." »Jon Kabit-Zinn
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"There should be less talk a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough." »Mother Theresa
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"The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards." »Bhartrihari
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"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Genius is both the sail and the wind; that’s why he continues his journey without stopping!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." »Aaron Copland
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"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping." »Orville Wright
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"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." »Sun-tzu
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"When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything." »Mehmet Karagoz
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"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race." »Oprah Winfrey
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"I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks." »Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
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"A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards." »Alan Simpson
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"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow." »Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow." »Robert Frost
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"I do remember stopping by the way, To watch a potter thumping his wet clay; And with its all-obliterated tongue It murmured, ?Gently, brother, gently, pray!?" »Omar Khayyam
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"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely—all your skills, gifts, and energies—in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming." »Warren Bennis, From an article in a meeting industry magazine.
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"I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."" »Victor Hugo
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"Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across." »Guy Kawasaki
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"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it." »Frank Herbert, Dune (First Law of Mentat)
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"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know." »Su Shih
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"Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." »Mary Catherine Bateson
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"It may be five years from now, but at some point we'll be better than them." »Dan Issel
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"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap." »Carrie
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"The world is round it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Live to the point of tears." »Albert Camus
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." »Desiderius Erasmus
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"The world is round; it has no point." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity." »Alfred Jarry
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