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• From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

  William Barrett

  Philosophy, Spring, Character

  William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books

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• Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

  Charles Simeon

  Prayer, Broken, Soul

  Charles Simeon (1838). “Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: Together with One Hundrer Skeletons, Being the Substance of Sermons Preached Before the University”, p.196

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• I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Blood, Practice, Play

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• It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

  Guy Finley

  Being Yourself, Important

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from May 06, 2012

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• But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

  Henry Mayhew

  Division, Branches, Firsts

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• It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

  Guy Lafleur

  Nice, Pregnancy, Years

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• At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Men, Sight, Firsts

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• To the man who is truly ethical all life is sacred, including that which from the human point of view seems lower in the scale. He makes distinctions only as each case comes before him, and under the pressure of necessity, as, for example, when it falls to him to decide which of two lives he must sacrifice in order to preserve the other. But all through this series of decisions he is conscious of acting on subjective grounds and arbitrarily, and knows that he bears the responsibility for the life which is sacrificed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Fall, Responsibility, Sacrifice

  Albert Schweitzer, Charles Rhind Joy (1947). “Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Years, Sin, Hours

  Evelyn Underhill (2009). “The Grey World”, p.195, Scriptoria Books

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• Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

  Mona Simpson

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

  "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs" by Mona Simpson, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

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• It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Thinking, Should

  "Aaron Sorkin's Syracuse commencement speech repeated lots of lines he's used before" by Geoff Herbert, www.syracuse.com. May 17, 2012.

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• I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

  Jan Morris

  Fun, Moving, Home

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• The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

  William H. Whyte

  Dimensions, Forgotten, Architect

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• What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

  James Sheridan Knowles

  Sports, Fire, Air

  James Sheridan Knowles (1837). “The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts”

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• I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Thinking, Looks, Television

  Tacoma News Tribune, blogs.wsj.com. May 23, 2001.

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• People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

  Katharine Anthony

  Thinking, People, Achievement

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• I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

  Emanuel Ax

  Trying, Movement, Applause

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• As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

  Shelley Berman

  Sex, Culture, Privacy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

  Matt Drudge

  Effort, Way, Losing

  "Matt Drudge on Chris Rock's Oscar Controversy". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2005.

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• What seems new is only new to us.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Workout, Judaism

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• To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Doe, World, Oneself

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• Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

  Ben Vereen

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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  It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, May, Firsts

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Distance, Heart, Voice

  "The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction, and, as far as I can see, those to whom it was first delivered regarded it in that light, so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command; and in place of seeking to assign a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

  James Gilmour

  Home, Light, Choices

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