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• Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, World, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.7

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• Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Opposites, Way

  "House Of Leaves author Mark Z. Danielewski on his new book and sewing paper" by Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2012.

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• When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Movement, Way

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.

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• No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. These guys do not do friends in the orthodox sense!

  Sheilah Graham Westbrook

  Guy, Hollywood, Orthodox

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• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Drawing, Dubious

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.141, Univ of California Press

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• It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Notebook, Artist, Essence

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• I think the Titanic disaster has parallels today. The closest think I can think of is the silicon chip.. We're all kind of bowing to this computer god, thinking it's going to fix everything and we're geniuses for inventing this. And, you know, I just think we should pay attention to disasters of the past.

  Billy Zane

  Past, Thinking, Attention

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• The 880-yard heel and toe walk is the closest a man can come to experiencing the panges of childbirth.

  Avery Brundage

  Inspirational, Men, Yards

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• As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.

  Francis Collins

  Mean, Dna, Special

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• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Photography, Art, Powerful

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• To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

  David Lynch

  Insanity, Jazz

  David Lynch, Richard A. Barney (2009). “David Lynch: Interviews”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's not really a whole lot you could say about liberation. The closest experience you can have of it is to come meditate with someone who is liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enlightenment, Liberation, Whole

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• I made a list of the happiest periods in my life, and I realized that none of them involved money. I realized that building stuff and being creative and inventive made me happy. Connecting with a friend and talking through the entire night until the sun rose made me happy. Trick-or-treating in middle school with a group of my closest friends made me happy. Eating a baked potato after a swim meet made me happy. Pickles made me happy.

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, School, Night

  "Walking Away From the Money at Microsoft" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Sadness, Hands

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community.

  Bill Kovach

  Believe, Responsibility, Self

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• When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.

  Eknath Easwaran

  People, Trying, Needs

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• What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Religious, War, Mean

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• I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower.

  Emerson Spartz

  Impact, Influence, Viral

  "The Virologist" by Andrew Marantz, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2015.

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• Ask anyone and they'll most likely say their family is crazy, and if they don't say their family is crazy, their friends are crazy. That's because everyone is crazy after taking the mask off. People are most themselves when not really trying to fit in, when either alone or around those already closest to them, and that is crazy.

  Criss Jami

  Crazy, People, Trying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.19, Criss Jami

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• Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Men, Companion, Show Me

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2009). “As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship”, p.22, Moody Publishers

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

  David Talbot

  School, Santa, Journalism

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• The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?

  Yulia Tymoshenko

  Dirty, Circles, Heavyweights

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• You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.

  Dominic Cooper

  Thinking, People, Know Me

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• Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

  Linda Lingle

  Home, Careers, Decision

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