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Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Men, Space, Self

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Sometimes all you’ve accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Space, The End Of The Day, Body

Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.204, Spiegel & Grau

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The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Passion, Thinking, Long

Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jane Fonda

Night, Kansas, Cities

"Jane Fonda spit on by Vietnam vet". www.wnd.com. April 20, 2005.

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The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

Barack Obama

Teenager, Son, Irritation

"We Can Still Make a Difference". Interview with Jess Cagle, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 29, 2014.

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Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Vinnie Jones

Football, Thinking, Years

"What I see in the mirror: Vinnie Jones" by Vinnie Jones, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2013.

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The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

Heber J. Grant

Christmas, Character, Men

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Through microscopic examination one can find in almost every life incidents or traits that can be destructive when they are magnified.

Marvin J. Ashton

Gossip, Examination, Destructive

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... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten.

Nicholas von Hoffman

Years, Proud, Journalism

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Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

Mark Hall

Long, Each Month, Criminals

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A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.

Henry Petroski

Engineering, Generations, Done

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Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Book, Needs, World

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It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

Tracy Chevalier

Important, Littles, Dramatic

"How Do You Find A Story In A Painting?". TED TALK, www.npr.org. June 7, 2013.

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Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

William McChesney Martin

Pyramids, Mind, Prejudice

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The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life, Pain, Differences

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.181, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

Marilyn Ferguson

Change, Real, Ideas

Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Michael Servetus

Progressive, Eternity, Discussion

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In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as to just what a certain spore was. Finally he said, "It is this, for if it isn't, then what is it?" And all during his life he was never able to forget that he had been guilty of this unscientific attitude, for science is founded on certitude, not assumption.

Elbert Hubbard

Attitude, Son, Long

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What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.

Fernando Pessoa

Dream, Reading, Book

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Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.

John Singer Sargent

Mind, Groups, Sunlight

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The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Grotesque, Cases, Deductions

Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.286, Lulu.com

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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History, May, Being True

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When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.

Samuel Fuller

Drama, Lying, Style

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I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Elie Wiesel

Holocaust, May, Happened

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Curious Incident is not a book about asperger's....if anything it's a novel about difference, about being an outsider, about seeing the world in a surprising and revealing way. The book is not specifically about any specific disorder.

Mark Haddon

Book, Differences, World

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