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Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Against Competitive Essentially God Nature Our Pit Pride Will

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Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Approach Essentially Life Pride Rather Than Thy Will

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

Topics: Cheat Come Conditions Deeper Defeat Essentially Happiness Life Out Pleasure Redeeming Struggle Things Those

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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

~Felicia Day

Topics: Against Being Bit Brave Enough Essentially Geek Heart Judgment Little Little Bit Love Means Rejection Someone Something Substance To Love

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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

~Felix Dennis

Topics: Alone Bear Coincide Decades Effort Essentially Food Get Get Married Go Hungry Liked Lived Make Many Married Over Prepared Should Sleep Thought Tired Up Wake Wake Up

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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

~Florence Welch

Topics: Always Bad Calm Doom Essentially Ever Feel Feeling Go Going Good Healthy Means Really Seem Settled Shake Things Think Underlying I Feel

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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.

~Florence Welch

Topics: Best Best Way Essentially Expression Moment Pause Performance Songs Transcend Way Without You Yourself

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The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

~Florentijn Hofman

Topics: Catholic Catholic Church Church City Crawl Death Decay Essentially Huge Leads Mortality Natural Religion Reminds Slow Societies Staircase Steep Towards Up Us Work

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A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction.

~Floyd Skloot

Topics: Area Behavioral Being Brain Different Different Areas Essentially Hears Labeled Laboratory Lights Location New Organic Oxygen Person Revealing Sees Speaks Specific Technique Up Uses Words

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I think I put a lot of special attention towards creating interesting textures and unique sounds. Music essentially boils down to two main elements: rhythm and melody. I feel tones and textures often get overlooked, so I like to take my time finding the right sounds.

~Flume

Topics: Attention Boils Creating Down Elements Essentially Feel Finding Get Interesting Like Lot Main Melody Music My Time Often Overlooked Put Rhythm Right Sounds Special Take Think Time Tones Towards Two Unique I Think I Feel

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