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• How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? (Woody Allen) [find]
• If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. (Abraham Lincoln) [look/people/find/willpower]
• He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters. (Daniel Defoe) [find/life/mankind]
• Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) [find]
• Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [forget/willpower/find]
• Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. (Jimmy Buffett) [find/right/path]
• I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [find]
• What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities. (Hillary Clinton) [find]
• It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. (Antonin Artaud) [people/find/day/night]
• Men are not to be told anything they might find too painful; the secret depths of human nature, the sordid physicalities, might overwhelm or damage them. For instance, men often faint at the sight of their own blood, to which they are not accustomed. For this reason you should never stand behind one in the line at the Red Cross donor clinic. (Margaret Atwood) [men/find/human/nature]
• Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon) [take/find]
• You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Pearl Bailey) [find/face/truth]
• We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it. (James Baldwin) [find]
• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. (John Barrymore) [find/willpower/give/morning]
• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. (Henry Ward Beecher) [present/willpower/find]
• I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. (James Boswell) [find]
• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. (Elizabeth Bowen) [youth/greatness/find]
• What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. (Andre Breton) [more/more/find]
• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. (Emily Bronte) [pleasure/society/find/company]
• Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God. (John Calvin) [find/god/church/god]
• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. (Albert Camus) [equilibrium/find]
• To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile? (Albert Camus) [find]
• Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. (Albert Camus) [courage/willpower/find/philosophy]
• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. (Albert Camus) [find//evil/value]
• Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. (Elias Canetti) [find/pleasure/child]
• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. (Thomas Carlyle) [find/universe]
• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. (Dale Carnegie) [willpower/find/happiness]
• I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [find/experience/mind/soul & body]
• Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [willpower/find]
• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [intelligence/find]
• You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [find/truth/logic/truth]

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