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• Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Twenties, Three, Poverty

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.712, Scholastic Inc.

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• Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

  George Orwell

  Brother, Party, Doe

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.296, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• There is a basic truth which man can know and which can transform his life if he will become the embodiment of it.

  Roy Davis

  Men, Knows, Ifs

  Roy Eugene Davis (1971). “Darshan: the vision of light”

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• I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

  Billy Corgan

  Player, Guitar, Perfect

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• I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

  John Lydon

  Perfect, Care, Likes

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, White, Earth

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• I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Thinking, Squash, Trying

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• Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Home, Pride

  "La Poétique de l'Espace (The Poetics of Space)". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of Compiègne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.

  Gertrud von Le Fort

  Destiny, Agony, Profound

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• A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

  Craig Johnson

  People, Support, Groups

  Craig Johnson (2007). “Death Without Company: A Walt Longmire Mystery”, p.8, Penguin

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• For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Believe, Sea

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• You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Boys, Clouds

  Great Expectations ch. 44 (1861)

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• Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Educational, Heart, Thinking

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• Yes, she is in love with him, and yes, in spite of his qualms and inner hesitations, he loves her back, however improbable that might seem to him. Note here for the record that he is not someone with a special fixation on young girls. Until now, all the women in his life have been more or less his own age. Pilar therefore does not represent an embodiment of some ideal female type for him--she is merely herself, a small piece of luck he stumbled across one afternoon in a public park, an exception to every rule.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, Luck, Age

  Paul Auster (2016). “Collected Novels Volume Four”, p.400, Faber & Faber

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• No female - young, old, black or white - could ever play the knight-on-charger with meager experience. If she presented herself as the human embodiment of national unity and world peace, everyone would have fallen down laughing.

  Froma Harrop

  Knights, Play, White

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• The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Long, Patterns

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 15, 2011

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• Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

  Bram Stoker

  Dog, Night, White

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.181, Zillmann Publishing

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• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  Bela Bartok

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Blood, Order, Ideas

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• To glorify God is not just to do so in religious worship, singing praise and enacting the traditional rites of the church. To glorify God is to reveal his character by being who we were created to be-the embodiment of the image of God in human form.

  James W. Sire

  Religious, Character, Singing

  James W. Sire (2011). “The Universe Next Door (Large Print 16pt)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Illustration, Woe Unto, Historical

  Swami Vivekananda “Lectures Vol. 3”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black and fathomless face, but welcomed Its gaze in return . . . and become Its living embodiment. It is a journey to be taken by none but the bravest of readers, and by souls with an ardent desire to savor their own damnation.

  Robin Spriggs

  Dream, Taken, Journey

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• If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Math, People, Alive

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.276, Advaita Ashrama

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