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• Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Phones, Pushing, Buttons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves.

  David Ricardo

  Bakers, Wheat, Farmers

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.21

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• It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.

  Paul Ryan

  Determination, Believe, Self

  "Conservative 'Young Guns' Offer Views on America's Future". A Roundtable Discussion, www.today.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Ideas, Two, Together

  Alexander Pushkin (2012). “The Queen of Spades and Other Stories”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Art is always of fixed, determined solutions - not things that might as well be different.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Art, Different, Might

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• Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Goal, Movement, Rapids

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• What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?

  David Harvey

  Space, Doe, Dynamics

  David Harvey (2003). “The New Imperialism”, p.33, OUP Oxford

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• Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

  David Harvey

  Mean, Technology, Revolution

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Justice, North Star

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• The Good was not a form of reality. It was reality itself, ever-changing, ultimately unknowable in any kind of fixed, rigid way.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Reality, Unity, Way

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• If the Almighty in his mercy allows us to settle peace among the christian leaders, we shall press on not only to destroy completely the bad seeds, but also to expand the territories of Christ, and, supported by these achievements, we shall go forward, with God favouring his own purposes, to the most holy expedition against the infidels, the desire for which is deeply fixed in our heart.

  Pope Leo X

  Christian, Heart, Achievement

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• Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for language itself is a network of 'fixed ideas'. Truths emerge only when language is reworked and possessed individually.

  John Carroll

  Ideas, Arguing, Language

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.87, Taylor & Francis

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• When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.

  Mircea Eliade

  Reality, Space, Sacred

  "The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan". Book by John Daniel Dadosky, p. 89, 2004.

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• The simple fact is that code quality tends to improve as you move between platforms... non-obvious bugs on Windows become VERY obvious in the Linux port and vice versa, and thus get fixed. So even the Windows gamers will win in all of this.

  Ryan C. Gordon

  Moving, Winning, Simple

  "Chat with Ryan Gordon". Chrono's Pad, February 11, 2001.

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• The human soul doesn't want to be fixed, it simply wants to be seen and heard. The soul is like a wild animal - tough, resilient and shy. When we go crashing through the woods shouting for it to come out so we can help it, the soul will stay in hiding. But if we are willing to sit quietly and wait for a while, the soul may show itself.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Animal, Waiting, Soul

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• If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.

  Cullen Hightower

  Government, Doors, Car

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• During a speech on Sunday, President Obama said to the crowd, 'We've got to vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote. Vote.' This went on for an hour until someone finally fixed his teleprompter.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Sunday, President, Crowds

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• You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, Behinds

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.194, Anchor

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• If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Long, Finding Yourself

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

  John Fowles

  Plans, Accidents

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• With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Commitment, Years, Kyoto Protocol

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• People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.

  Henry Adams

  War, Believe, Sunday

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• Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.

  John Chamberlain

  Wisdom, Progress, Cost

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• The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Wisdom, War, Benefits

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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