You have taken the important, essential core of the apple, including (one must not forget) the nasty pips, and scales (I do not know what you call those little things) which must be spat out.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you can’t do it with a 'click', it must be one of those things they call impossible to do. PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways... JOHN FOWLES You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to d... HENRY B. EYRING If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must b... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is... STEVEN PRESSFIELD You do not have to know which path you must take. That's not how life works. You simply must be curi... TONI SORENSON You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it... T.S. ELIOT I must have a God-given talent, which is the ability to multitask, plus I have great retention. I... TILMAN J. FERTITTA I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He se... C.S. LEWIS Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... GERMANY KENT To do BIG things, you must be willing to do the little things well. LORRIN L. LEE “ You must know what you do not know and know. True wisdom lies in knowing yourself not world” DR. SHAILESH THAKER The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love,
passion. NADIA BOULANGER The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. NADIA BOULANGER The essential [conditions] of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. NADIA BOULANGER People have interpretations of what you're supposed to be like. If you're unattractive and o... MILA KUNIS It is important that you appreciate that the workplace must be a place of empowerment, but the empow... ANTHONY CARMONA I do not know which will be the destiny of each one of you; but one thing I know - the only ones amo... ALBERT SCHWEITZER If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a great... MAGGIE SMITH Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of ... B.K.S. IYENGAR Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, f... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you d... AGNES MARTIN The little things, I can obey. The big things—how we think, what we value—those you must choose ... MITCH ALBOM The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people, .... ROBERT MUGABE Knowledge isn't the issue, it's what you think you know that's not the truth. RICK PRICE You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much m... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e... DEAN ACHESON The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be e... DEAN GOODERHAM ACHESON You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know ... PAULO COELHO The success of very important matters often depends on doing or not doing something that seems trivi... BOHDI SANDERS There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not ... SUN TZU The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must cho... MORRIE SCHWARTZ No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS When you reach out to those in need, do not be surprised if the essential meaning of something occur... STEPHEN RICHARDS Welcome in what? In adult world?? I know it, people which are not sirious have a lot of mo... DEYTH BANGER You can cooperate and not compromise your core values. But I'm a realist with the philosophy tha... JASON T. SMITH Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must se... MICHAEL MICHALKO Honest things, like honest men, do not have to explain themselves so openly. What must first be prov... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things whi... BIBLE Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things whi... BIBLE The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful peopl... ROBERT MUGABE You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be
avoided. UNKNOWN People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believ... GEORGE MACDONALD I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start ... JAN CARLZON The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must cho... MORRIE SCHWARTZ The things which must be, must be for the best,
God helps us do our duty and not shrink,
And t... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is... DEAN ACHESON I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is... DEAN ACHESON In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, howev... ROBIN MCKINLEY One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important t... LES BROWN One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important t... LES BROWN I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. The Best films are a small amount, some films learn us things which we won't forget, others just sho... DEYTH BANGER We must say "no" to what, in our heart, we don't want. We must say "no" to doing things out of oblig... SUZETTE R. HINTON Be your own person, don't follow the crowd, and above all, stand out. BEN OAK And so if you take the e-mail out of the equation, which you must, there's not much left, BRUCE GRAHAM In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and wha... ELDER RICHARD G. SCOTT First you must know what to do, then you must do it. JIM GENOVESE You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop... DALAI LAMA XIV I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-... SPIDER ROBINSON My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. WALKER PERCY We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent.... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p... PATRICK ROTHFUSS When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dr... MARCEL PROUST To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things... GEORGE CRABBE To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all th... GEORGE CRABBE You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thou... WILLIAM GODWIN One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you... CHARLES H. TOWNES Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo... BRAM STOKER Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because t... SIMONE SCHWARZ-BART Do not reward those who hurt you. Love and forgive, but do not forget. Turning the other cheek only ... RAIN BOJANGLES Every second of your life is vitally important and you must ensure that you do not waste it SUNDAY ADELAJA The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of e... TA-NEHISI COATES You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, th... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Stay up building your empire if you must, cut all negative ties if you must, sacrifice some things i... KABELO MABONA To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know. CHARLES MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND-PéRIGORD We are what we must
And not what we would be. I know that one hour
Assures not another. The ... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best. W. EDWARDS DEMING You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid. SAMUEL JOHNSON Better to forget, better to let go of the bitterness. I say bitterness is only good in medicine, or ... LYDIA KWA Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do t... RICHARD FEYNMAN You must do what you WANT, not what you feel you NEED to do. In the end, its what you want which mak... CHARLIE JAMES I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing... TONY ROBBINS You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing... ANTHONY ROBBINS Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to ... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost po... GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the ... RICHARD BRANSON Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I ... RICHARD BACH If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're... THOMAS WOLFE
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SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. PATRICK HENRY For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ... PATRICK LENCIONI Teamwork is a strategic decision. PATRICK LENCIONI How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? 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PATRICK FISCHLER 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th... PATRICK FISCHLER I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me. PATRICK FISCHLER I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Sca... PATRICK FISCHLER I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It... PATRICK FISCHLER Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st... PATRICK EWING New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstand... PATRICK EWING I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York. PATRICK EWING I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ... PATRICK EWING This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year c... 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That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don... PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const... PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ... PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra... PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting... PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don... PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta... PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr... PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much. PATRICK DEMPSEY In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering... PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought... PATRICK DEMPSEY With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi... PATRICK DEMPSEY If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury. PATRICK DEMPSEY