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• The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  People, Unity, Church

  Stanley Hauerwas (1995). “In Good Company: The Church as Polis”, p.139, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's most important hugs with those big oven-mitt potholders on both hands.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Beautiful, Heart, Self

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.288, Faber & Faber

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• Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Country, Night, Clouds

  Appeal to citizens of Russia to oppose the 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, August 19, 1991.

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• It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Gossip, Information, Ifs

  Mercedes Lackey (2010). “Intrigues: Book Two of the Collegium Chronicles (A Valdemar Novel)”, p.158, Penguin

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• Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

  Nicolas Bentley

  Women, Eye, Feet

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• Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.

  Lauren Kate

  Hurt, Light, Glowing

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• It’s not just the adage ‘write what you know,’ it’s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you’ve collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don’t know.

  Sarah Kay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Writing

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• Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wind

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• She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Beautiful, Past, Thinking

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.237, Random House

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• To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

  Deena Metzger

  Self, Imagination, Together

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

  Doug Davidson

  Mother, Missing Someone, Father

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• Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the politics of economic inequality is dead wrong. Bartels's perplexing and often unexpected discoveries should help refocus the gathering public debate about inequality and what to do about it.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Book, Thinking, Economic Inequality

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• The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

  George Orwell

  Paris, People, Mad

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as résumé. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to.

  Christian Wiman

  Eye, Successful, Views

  "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer". Book by Christian Wiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

  Damian Thompson

  Attitude, Believe, People

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• I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hate, Party, Identity

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• Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to a fine and ethereal substantiality. My Unwritten Books is a gathering of shades, an elegant and eloquent gathering of mind, feeling, and autumnal passion. (...) And that is the lovely irony of this unique little book. None of these unwritten books should have been written. They are better here, as they are, untamed and errant phantoms of a brilliance whose emanations no one mortal lifetime could ever accommodate in full.

  Nick Tosches

  Book, Passion, Unique

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• Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing of forces on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening. With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

  Walter Pater

  Attitude, Sleep, Effort

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

  Robert Breault

  Family, Blessing, Giving

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• All those statistics that you are gathering about your own experiences and about others are only about how somebody has flowed Energy. It isn't about any hard fast reality.

  Esther Hicks

  Reality, Energy, Statistics

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Laughter, Land, Impact

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• Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.

  David Quammen

  Attitude, Criticism, Agents

  David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

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• A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and times his jump perfectly, gathering the orange leather/from the air like a cherished possession.

  Edward Hirsch

  Basketball, Kissing, Men

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.51, Knopf

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• The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

  George Orwell

  Children, Beer, Nonsense

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to "be" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13).

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Teacher, Jesus, Adventure

  "Apostles Proclaim Christ, Not an Idea, Says Pope". zenit.org. March 22, 2006.

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