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• The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I'm a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Morning, Thinking, Personality

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• People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment.

  John C. Dvorak

  Jobs, Sex, Party

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• Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

  Bill Bryson

  Perfect, Together, Firsts

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• A mission is not just a casual thing-it is not an alternative program in the Church. Neither is a mission a matter of choice any more than tithing is a choice, any more than sacrament meeting is a choice, any more than the Word of Wisdom is a choice. Of course, we have our free agency, and the Lord has given us choices. We can do as we please. We can go on a mission or we can remain home. But every normal young man is as much obligated to go on a mission as he is to pay his tithing, attend his meetings, keep the Sabbath day holy, and keep his life spotless and clean.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Home, Men, Agency

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• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your cordless phone, your telephone plan is suited to your needs, and your various gizmos interact without conflict. Your spouse is athletic, your kids are bright, your job is rewarding, your promotions are inevitable, everywhere you need to be comes with its own accessible parking. You look great in casual slacks.

  David Brooks

  Jobs, Kids, Phones

  David Brooks (2004). “On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I usually wear casual clothes to the office. I wear a suit maybe two or three times a month, and usually only when I need to meet with the head office.

  Hideo Kojima

  Two, Clothes, Office

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• My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

  Robert Southey

  Failure, Eye, Mind

  Robert Southey, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1809). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.250

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• Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

  G. E. M. Anscombe

  Sex, Attitude, Trying

  G.E.M. Anscombe (2012). “Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe”, p.208, Andrews UK Limited

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• I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

  Will Estes

  Broken Heart, Trying, Kind

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• The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

  Harry Callahan

  Writing, Average, Differences

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• Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Honesty, Loss, Men

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• Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

  David Platt

  Church, Attendance, Weight

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.38, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We don’t have to do a bunch of things to figure out how to win the Ryder Cup. Just go play golf. ... I’m a little bit too casual probably about a lot of things, but you can’t force good play. Good play comes from good hard work and actually being prepared to play, not being forced to play.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Hard Work, Golf, Winning

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• When I'm at home or at school, I'm casual and comfortable. I tend to wear work out clothes and lots of sweaters.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Home, School, Sweaters

  "AnnaSophia Robb Spills Her Fashion and Beauty Secrets!". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 9, 2011.

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• At evening casual flocks of pigeons make
  Ambiguous undulations as they sink
  Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Wings, Poetry, Darkness

  'Sunday Morning, I' (1923)

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• I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Fun, Playing Games, Down And

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes by no more than a casual glance, that they were loved and admired and desired when they were worthy of none of these things - enabling them to preen themselves and puff out their plumage like birds and bask in the sunshine of love, real or imagined, it didn't matter which.

  Barbara Pym

  Love, Real, Sunshine

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• The profoundest order is revealed in what is most casual.

  Fairfield Porter

  Art, Order, Drawing

  Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter (2001). “Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels”

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• One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What he meant was, you have to plan every operation You cannot ever be casual You have to realize that any operation is a potential fatality.

  Joseph Murray

  Science, Errors, Giants

  "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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• Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.

  William Merritt Chase

  Integrity, Eye, Race

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• By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted.

  Harlan Ellison

  Meaningful, Writing, Reality

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• There is an electricity about a friendship relationship. We are both more relaxed and more sensitive, more creative and more reflective, more energetic and more casual, more excited and more serene. It is as though when we come in contact with our friend we enter into a different environment.

  Andrew Greeley

  Friendship, Creative, Different

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• Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.

  Aaron Siskind

  Photography, Taken, Ideas

  Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr

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