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• Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Sea, May

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “A Treatise on Painting: "Translated from the Original Italian"”, p.216, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• It's a constant process of bouncing ideas off of one another and intuitively arriving at the right decision in the moment.

  Ted Alexandro

  Ideas, Decision, Moments

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.

  Ali Farahnakian

  Numbers, Way, Performances

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• It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

  George Washington

  Impossible, Reason, Without God

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in ­pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dream, People

  "The unstoppable rise of Florence Welch". Interview with John Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).

  Laozi

  Loss, Followers, Each Day

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• Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Use, Scientist

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• I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Doors, Space, People

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• Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

  Donna Farhi

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

  John Dewey

  Sleep, Dying, Constant

  John Dewey (2015). “Human Nature and Conduct: Human Understanding”, p.143, 谷月社

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• If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Real, Government, Views

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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• We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.

  Donald Barthelme

  Book, Reading, White

  1967 Snow White.

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• For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

  Amor Towles

  Wind, Promise, Manhattan

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.229, Penguin

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• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Adventure, Finals

  "Religion and Science". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. I: Ground of Conflict, 1935.

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• It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

  E. L. Doctorow

  Running, Country, Believe

  E.L. Doctorow (2009). “Homer & Langley: A Novel”, p.35, Random House

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• The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

  Augustus John

  Buttons, Failing, Stranger

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• Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mind’s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed … Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.

  Forrest Gander

  Reading, Character, Feelings

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• Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.

  Chris Hadfield

  Journey, Focus, Destination

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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• We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Needs, Firsts, Chance

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• When people know the desired destination, they’re free to improvise, as needed, in arriving there.

  Chip Heath

  People, Destination, Needed

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• When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".

  Gretchen Rubin

  Goal, Waiting, Needs

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• Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person. Franny was among the first of the girls to get off the train, from a car at the far, northern end of the platform. Lane spotted her immediately, and despite whatever it was he was trying to do with his face, his arm that shot up into the air was the whole truth.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Air, Expression

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• Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.

  Milan Kundera

  Long, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.

  Sarah MacLean

  Mother, Father, Mean

  Sarah MacLean (2010). “Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake”, p.19, Harper Collins

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