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He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it. Theodore Sturgeon
Th direct elimination of elimination of poverty should be the objective of all development aid. Development should be viewed as a human rights issue, not as a question of simply increasing the gross national product (GNP). Muhammad Yunus
William Shakespeare quote: "Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues."[Stage direction, Henry..."
Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues."[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] William Shakespeare
He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were. J. D. Salinger
Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong because I thought you might be pleased by a strong body. I have lived my life with only the prayer that some sudden dawn you might glance in my direction. I have not known a moment in years when the sight of you did not send my heart careening against my rib cage. I have not known a night when your visage did not accompany me to sleep. There has not been a morning... William Goldman
The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings. Philip Zimbardo
Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your nave pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you. Cheryl Strayed
Amelia Earhart quote: "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions,..."
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. Amelia Earhart
Advance confidently in the direction of your own dream, endeavor to live the life which you have imagined. When you do, you will meet with a success un-imagineable in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
She cannot remember her mother's face... This is the woman who brought her into the world... This is the woman her father loved. Yet every time she turns her mind's eye in her mother's direction she sees only the men she is talking to, the children she is playing with, the maids to whom she is giving orders... She begins to realise how alike they are, she and her mother, these blank sheets on which men have written their stories, the white space between the words, making all their... Mark Haddon
I’d always admired The Beatles for starting out as a bubblegum pop group and then getting heavier and heavier as their albums went on, and here was me going in the opposite direction. Ozzy Osbourne
David O. McKay quote: "Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that..."
Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God; s greatest gift to man. David O. McKay
Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end. W. H. Auden
Alice Hoffman quote: "Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right..."
Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. Alice Hoffman

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