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“Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word," he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.”
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“The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.”
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“To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.”
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“I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.”
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“I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.”
Source : "Defending and Parenting Children Who Learn Differently : Lessons from Edison's Mother". Book by Scott Teel, 2007.
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“If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!”
Source : "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.
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“The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.”
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“If there is another me inside of me Then I hope that he's a better person than I am”