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Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
Agnes Martin
Happiness
Life
Beam
Feel
Being
Pull
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
Agnes Martin
Ideas
Because
Very
Inaccurate
Careful
The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.
Agnes Martin
You
Favor
Minimize
See
Ideal
Idealist
Just
Want
Themselves
Cool
Paintings
For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.
Al Purdy
Me
Man
Bird
Beast
Alive
Vividly
Triumph
Marvel
Vast
Perfectly
Most
Supreme
Flowers
At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
Alanis Morissette
Angry
Spiritual
Perceived
Only
Point
Just
Being
Peaceful
Now
Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
Alanis Morissette
People
Will
Hatred
Ability
Magnify
Self-Doubt
Fame
Any
Lack
Hollow
Connect
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
Alanis Morissette
Women
Men
Face
Men And Women
Indeed
Embrace
Rather
Both
Both Men And Women
Shame
Attempt
Feminine
Eradicate
Than
Brave
Patriarchy
Act
I give myself strength by staying away from any music.
Alannah Myles
Music
Myself
Strength
Staying
Give
Any
Away
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Albert Bandura
People
Extraordinarily
Appropriate
Given
Cruel
Led
Conditions
Decent
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Social
Social Conditions
Things
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
Albert Bandura
Time
Tools
Over
Most
Well
Perishable
Content
Textbooks
Serve
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy in how you perform.
Albert Bandura
You
Property
People
Those
Ability
About
Perform
How
Effect
Huge
Fixed
Beliefs
Profound
Being a foreigner is not a disease.
Alden Nowlan
Foreigner
Disease
Being
Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.
Alessia Cara
Beauty
Well
Just
Forms
Internal
External
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
Alex Campbell
Me
Man
Mind
Think
Destroyed
Besides
Unsound
Because
Friends
Usefulness
Here
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
Alex Lifeson
Life
Time
You
Beginning
Think
Changes
Mark
Settle
Back
Indelible
More
Leaves
However
Were
Shock
Any
Psyche
After
In The Beginning
Little
Your
Little Time
Trauma
Acute
The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.
Alex Tabarrok
Time
You
Attention Span
People
Value
First
Some
Give
Point
Attention
Learn
Click
First Thing
Limited
Got
Leaving
Blogging
Get
The First Thing
Span
Them
Waste
Away
Thing
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
Alice Munro
Life
Home
You
Parents
Half
Gone
Nursing
Nursing Home
Latter
Visit
About
Write
Come
Material
Still
Personal
Going
Children
Want
Them
Your
Deep
Here
The Conservative party under my leadership will continue to be an inclusive, welcoming party that welcomes not only immigrants but also refugees and ensures that Canada plays its role in welcoming people from difficult situations.
Andrew Scheer
Leadership
People
Conservative
Will
Party
Inclusive
Difficult
Conservative Party
Immigrants
Only
Welcomes
Welcoming
Also
Continue
Canada
Role
Situations
Refugees
Plays
We all have an obligation to pass on a better environment to our kids.
Andrew Scheer
Obligation
Better
Our
Kids
Environment
Pass
I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.
Ann Makosinski
Life
Crazy
You
Matter
Try
Think
Starts
Everything
Idea
Always
How
Should
Bring
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
Ann Voskamp
Good
You
Writing
Perspective
Out
Kind
Visual
Detail
Details
Runs
Seeing
Good Writing
Like
Know
Reader
Knows
Were
Lot
Screen
Experienced
Create
Really
Credibility
Need
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
Ann Voskamp
Life
Gratitude
Natural
Darkness
My Life
Spent
Kin
Posture
Spoiled
Prince
Most
Ultimately
Polish people have a wit and sarcasm. They're gentle but still very strong. Like, they love beer, which is traditionally so manly, but they'll put a spoonful of jam in it to sweeten it up. They're this wonderful mix of hard and soft.
Antoni Porowski
Love
Beer
People
Wonderful
Strong
Manly
Put
Like
Wit
Spoonful
Gentle
Polish
Still
Mix
Up
Very
Jam
Which
Hard
Sarcasm
Soft
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
Arthur Erickson
Great
Heart
Architecture
Rare
Every
Spirit
Case
Poetic
Buildings
Always
Been
Move
Products
Unique
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
Arthur Erickson
Nature
Culture
Own
Other
Plead
Herself
Our
Destroy
More
Force
Cultures
Than
Human
Which
Much
Fragile
Conservation
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Arthur Erickson
Freedom
Before
Sense
Gone
Everything
Released
Constraints
Had
Modernism
Us
Euphoric
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