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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mos...

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a...

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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I mu...

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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while...

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I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I hav...

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Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway on Writing

Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coinci...

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herdi...

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Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten...

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I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid o...

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Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent fooli...

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Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my...

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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.

What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows ar...

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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

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Henry MillerTropic of Cancer

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by othe...

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You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!

Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else c...

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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at hi...

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The world is too brutal for me—I am glad there is such a thing as the grave—I am sure I shall never ...

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assu...

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Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But ...

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all t...

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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly tr...

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The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the...

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Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the...

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Maya AngelouWouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can...

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Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn...

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is li...

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Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then s...

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There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isol...

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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...

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I am persuaded our discontents, and murmurings with out unpleasing condition, and our covetous desir...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

My attitude about death is, going into the next room, and it's a room that the rest of us can't get ...

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Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts bracket...

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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in ...

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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

A change is as good as a rest.

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Stephen KingHearts in Atlantis

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us....

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A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just gover...

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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest...

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Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose...

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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, an...

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It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....

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History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The ...

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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in pe...

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Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest?'Tis that every mother's sonTravail...

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Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and...

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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbaris...

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Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

And so I miss the fertilization that might come from a contact. And for me--yes, I think I might as ...

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Anne Morrow LindberghAgainst Wind and Tide: Letters and Journals

Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands ...

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When the I AM THAT I AM made nothingAnd rested, which rest it certainly deserved,Night now accompani...

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Antonio MachadoTimes Alone: Selected Poems

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways tha...

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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a...

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He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes i...

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When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are ...

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Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was ...

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Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he f...

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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to ha...

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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do ...

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The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of ...

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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, th...

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We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives ther...

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We are thankful to come here for rest, sir," said Jenny. "You see, you don't know what the rest of t...

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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spi...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free in...

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We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.