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• Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.

  Duane Michals

  Flower, Eye, Circles

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• Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Golf, One Day

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• In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

  Johan Huizinga

  Art, Taken, Europe

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Ideas, People, Saws

  "Oprah Talks to Shonda Rhimes". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2006.

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• The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented & enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the group seems to depend on the freedom of the individual.

  Hakim Bey

  Effectiveness, Groups, Movement

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• It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Mean, Groups, Nonviolent Communication

  Mary Parker Follett, Pauline Graham (1996). “Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s”, Harvard Business Press

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• I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

  Carter Burwell

  Stars, War, Opportunity

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• There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom.

  Robert Henri

  Usual, Moments, Clairvoyant

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.

  Jim Henson

  Crazy, People, Optimism

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• But all the great staining temptations, to selfishness, ambition, and other strong sins that violently affront the soul, appear first in the region of the mind, and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of Truth. “It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'

  Amy Carmichael

  Men, Doors, Discipline

  "Gold by Moonlight: Sensitive Lessons from a Walk with Pain".

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• A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

  James Dyson

  Running, Pain, Giving Up

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn’t an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Wall, Distance, Rocks

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.68, Penguin

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• Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Hate, Shadow

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The great affair, the love affair with life,
  is to live as variously as possible,
  to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
  climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• Over half a century on and they're still complaining about it. Compare it to the fact that Garden State didn't win an Oscar and they seem a little petty if you ask me. I guess that just goes to show what kind of people they really are.

  Zach Braff

  Winning, Garden, People

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• If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

  Zach Braff

  Global Warming, Killing, Mankind

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• When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after I'm done I'd just run out into the living room, or the dance floor, with all that bloody goop on my junk and yell, OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE NADS! Yeah, good times.

  Zach Braff

  Running, Play, Junk

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• I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

  May Sarton

  Light, Sloth, Important

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Life is still as never was,
  One Seems dead yet still is alive.
  Man frets for things, things he can buy,
  All's for sale but not life.
  Life is there when a friend is there,
  A friend like you worth more than life.

  Amit Abraham

  Men, Alive, Life Is

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• I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

  Joseph Epstein

  Book, People, Soul

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• If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Dream, Ifs, Worth It

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• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  Dan Kieran

  Jobs, Past, People

  Tom Hodgkinson, Dan Kieran (2010). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.48, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

  Philip Guston

  Miracle, Peculiar, Needs

  Kim Sichel, Philip Guston (1994). “Philip Guston, 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles”, University of Washington Press

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• You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.

  Philip Guston

  Choices, Style, Trying

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• A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Sympathy, Attitude, Philosophy

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