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• If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Gun, Enough

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• As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.

  Thomas Berry

  Dream, Future, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.10, Crown

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• Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Taken

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• There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Helping, Language

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Morning, Dawn

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

  Michael Parenti

  Class, Generosity, Important

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• Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Home, Needs, Division

  Speech to Boston World Affairs Council, Boston, Massachusetts, March 11, 1976.

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• The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

  Susan Hill

  Garden, Perfection, Waiting

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• What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Optimism, Forever

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• I think the biggest single improvement, or change, that a person could make in one's life would be to come to a deeper understanding, a more expanded awareness of who they are, of who God is, of what God wants, of what life is really about, of the purpose of life.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Thinking, Understanding

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• An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.

  Harold Klemp

  Mean, Feelings, Action

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• The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the Soul body.

  Harold Klemp

  Light, Leaving, Soul

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• Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the groundrules of society. The amateur can afford to lose. The professional tends to classify and specialise, to accept uncritically the groundrules of the environment. The groundrules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly unaware. The 'expert' is the man who stays put.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Experts, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• The heart is that which lies at the centre of things, and is also formless. It is simple awareness devoid of movement to and fro, of past and future, within and without, merit and harm. Wherever the centre of a thing lies, there lies its heart, for the word 'heart' means centrality.

  Ajahn Thate

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax, image and metaphor. Reading it-the best of it-can create another, very different kind of perpetual present, an awareness that can be as ongoing in the soul as the stop-time of trauma.

  Sven Birkerts

  Spring, Communication, Reading

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• I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher awareness emotionally.

  Colin Farrell

  Mean, Moon, Heaven

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.

  Emma Watson

  Real, Opportunity, Rights

  "UN Women announces Emma Watson as Goodwill Ambassador". www.unwomen.org. July 8, 2014.

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• One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

  Mena Suvari

  Eye, Issues, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Having traveled across America and to 24 counties as the first-ever UN Youth Champion, I’m inspired by the desire of young people everywhere to make the world a better place. At GimmeMo’, our goal is to build a global community of enlightened young people — those who wish to be the change they wish to see in the world, to borrow a phrase from Gandhi — and to raise awareness surrounding some of the biggest challenges that Millennials face both in the U.S. and around the world.

  Monique Coleman

  America, People, Goal

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• That's the main reason I took it up But I do feel I don’t know part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Thinking, Needs

  "Kate Winslet Opens Up About Divorce From Sam Mendes In British Vogue" By Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Faces, Persons

  "'New girl' Zooey Deschanel doesn't know why everyone thinks she's weird" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. April 09, 2012.

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• When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

  Bruce Lee

  Moving, Opposites, Circles

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.39, Tuttle Publishing

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• The beautiful faces of the children I’ve met in Rwanda and in other countries are with me every day and fuel my passion to raise awareness of the global hunger issue. That’s why I’m urging everyone to join me and #PassTheRedCup for Yum! Brands’ World Hunger Relief effort. Together we can move millions of children from hunger to hope.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beautiful, Country, Children

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• We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.

  Starhawk

  Healing, Order, Land

  Starhawk (2013). “The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Self, Years, Looks

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