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• All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

  E. O. Wilson

  Three, Environment, Born

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• The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Differences, Political, Matter

  "Words Have Consequences" by adeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• The most admirable method is that by which each wash of colour, large or small, is never disturbed. It admits of practically no overpainting, sponging or scrubbing. The colour stays where it is put.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Methodology, Admirable, Colour

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• Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, People, Feelings

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• Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.

  Pim van Lommel

  Inspirational, Memories, Dysfunction

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• Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disturbed because of your imperfections, and always rise up bravely from a fall. I am glad that you make a daily new beginning; there is no better means of progress in the spiritual life than to be continually beginning afresh, and never to think that we have done enough.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Fall, New Beginnings

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• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Years, Civilization, Progress

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• No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

  Michael Cadnum

  Strong Women, Being A Strong Woman, Strong Independent Women

  Michael Cadnum (2015). “Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Care, Select

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.76, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.

  Catherine of Aragon

  Kings, Giving, Wicked

  "Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen" by Joanna Denny, Da Capo Press, (p. 175), 2006.

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• Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Hypocrite, Intelligent

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.80, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.

  David Whyte

  People, Tragedy, Answers

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• When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Heart, Relics

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• We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.

  Germaine Greer

  Zoos, Thinking, Animal

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• I've maintained old friendships, like with people I knew in the nineteen-seventies, but have lost the knack for meeting new people. This has a lot to do with my writing schedule. I don't want to be disturbed, and the willingness to be disturbed is, I think, part of being a good friend.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Good Friend, Thinking

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I look back over my shoulder and feel the presence of an intense young girl and then a volatile and disturbed young woman, both with high dreams and restless, romantic aspirations

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Girl, Dream, Looks

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• Anyone who is disturbed by the idea of newts in a nightclub is potentially dangerous.

  Frank Zappa

  Ideas, Newts, Dangerous

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• You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!" Raise your voice -- they won't hear you otherwise -- "I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!" Maybe they haven't heard you, with all that racket; speak louder, yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything: just hope they'll leave you alone.

  Italo Calvino

  Reading, Winter, Night

  Italo Calvino (2010). “If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”, p.3, Random House

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• ...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Discovery, Steps, Affair

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.71, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.

  Deb Caletti

  Insanity, Creepy, Shadow

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.

  Melina Marchetta

  Crush, Leader, Soul

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• What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general. The attorney general was supposed to have recused himself from anything involving Russia. And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.

  Adam Schiff

  Cop, Committed, Attorney

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

  Franz Kafka

  Castles, Gazing, Causes

  Franz Kafka, Willa Muir (1974). “The castle”

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• I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

  Northrop Frye

  Important, Identity, Problem

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.346, University of Toronto Press

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