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• I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me sometimes that there are students from anywhere else.

  Robert Morgan

  New York, Cities, Long

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• Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Soul, Produce

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion”, p.202

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• When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Art, Writing, Character

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• I have this personal affinity for the desert. I am fascinated by the desert. I love it.

  Erika Slezak

  Desert, Fascinated

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• The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Thinking, Guy

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• Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

  Michael Faraday

  Believe, Science, Electrical Power

  Michael Faraday (1839). “Experimental Researches in Electricity: Series 1-14 [Phil. trans., 1831-38] 1839”, p.249

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• Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Bears, Cunning, Despicable

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.

  Foxy Brown

  Wall, Careers, Wire

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• I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

  Joey Santiago

  Simple, Warm, Lush

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• I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Feels, Knows

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, College, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

  Jean Sibelius

  Swans, Years, Reincarnation

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• Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

  Louis Kahn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  ":The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:Redefining the Practice of Sustainability". Book by Bill Reed (p. 216), October 11, 2011.

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• Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

  William Ralph Inge

  Risk, Elements, Venture

  William Ralph Inge (1910). “Faith and Its Psychology”

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• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Independent, Men

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

  William Hazlitt

  Betrayal, Secret, Violent

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1179, Delphi Classics

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• The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may be more or less numerous, simple or complex in composition, and in the constitution of the materials, they play the same role as Mars and Venus do in our planetary system, or the compound members such as our earth with its moon, or Jupiter with its satellites... If in such a system a particle is replaced by one of different character, the equilibrium can persist, and then the new compound will exhibit properties similar to those shown by the original substance.

  Jean-Baptiste Dumas

  Character, Moon, Simple

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• There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

  William James

  Companionship, Tenderness

  William James (2004). “The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.280, Library of Alexandria

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• Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.

  Terry Southern

  Long, People, Beard

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• The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Book, Ideas, History

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• For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Iron, Differences

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963”, p.68, HarperCollins UK

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• Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Sri Lanka, Perfect

  "The Foundations of Indian Culture". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1953.

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• My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.

  David Crosby

  Song, Father, Writing

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