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• Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

  May Sarton

  Years, Light, Dying

  May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

  John Dryden

  Faithful, Succeed, Lord

  John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.13

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• Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of nature have the same heredity. I believe everyone should and must live out what is in him. So no two lives can be the same.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Believe, Emotional

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• Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Moving, Expression, Law

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

  Elbert Hubbard

  Income, Stomach, Small Things

  Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

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• The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.

  Robert Southey

  Successful, Men, Soul

  Robert Southey (1832). “On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will”, p.235

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• It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

  Thomas Paine

  Passion, Peculiar, Uniforms

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)”, p.333, Library of America

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• Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faith, Passion, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2036, e-artnow

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• Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Storm, Mazes

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.166, tredition

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• All things obey fixed laws.

  Lucretius

  Law, All Things

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• For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

  Plutarch

  Men, Roots, Heaven

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• I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Men, Eggs, Opinion

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

  Arthur Miller

  Stars, Men, Needs

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

  Hannah More

  Mind, Needs, Repentance

  Hannah More (1847). “The Complete Works of Hannah More”, p.179

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• You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

  Edna Ferber

  Wheels, Ends, Know How

  Edna Ferber (1941). “Saratoga Crunk”

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• I became wary of simple interpretations that assumed fixed and final meanings.

  John Pfahl

  Simple, Finals, Photographer

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• I want people to leave the theater wrestling with the idea that our pain - physical, emotional, and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed, or "fixed."

  Karyn Kusama

  Spiritual, Pain, Wrestling

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent. The reason we grow up to be healthy adults is because our parents played this game of giving us responsibility, disciplining us when necessary, letting us try, letting us fail.

  Simon Sinek

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Kids

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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• There are many ways of inducing sleep--the thinking of purling rills, or waving woods; reckoning of numbers; droppings from a wet sponge fixed over a brass pan, etc. But temperance and exercise answer much better than any of these succedaneums.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sleep, Exercise, Thinking

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• Take refuge in silence. You can be here or there or anywhere. Fixed in silence, established in the inner 'I', you can be as you are. The world will never perturb you if you are well founded upon the tranquility within. Gather your thoughts within. Find out the thought centre and discover your Self-equipoise. In storm and turmoil be calm and silent. Watch the events around as a witness. The world is a drama. Be a witness, inturned and introspective.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Drama, Self, Silence

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• While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.

  Paul Brunton

  Peace, Truth, Mind

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas

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• Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some.

  Alphonse Karr

  Ideas, Dresses, Great Business

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• It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

  King James I

  Future, Blessing, Trouble

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• All these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.

  Saint Basil

  Stars, Eye, Views

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