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• My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

  David Pogue

  Technology, Self, Magic

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• I had a very full life, with pains and losses, of course. I lost all the people I was closest to: my partner, my father, and my best friends, but I can't complain. I am 91 years old and I am still here at my desk.

  Giovanna Cau

  Pain, Father, Loss

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Air, Drawing

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

  Oswald Chambers

  Tasks, Surprise, Abandon

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.258, Discovery House

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• Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

  Jane Jacobs

  Government, People, Accountability

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.103, Vintage

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• My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first".

  John Dingell

  Snakes, Daddy, Firsts

  "Power Grid Politics". Fox News, www.cbsnews.com. August 17, 2003.

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• I think we need to grow in our self-assurance that is not scared of being challenged, that the truth we uphold can stand up to the closest possible scrutiny.

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Self, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Feelings, Doe

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Feet, Feelings, Flying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Winter, Hunting

  "Huckabee, Fluent in the NRA’s Language" by Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. September 21, 2007.

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• I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very complimentary, because the author suggested that I wasn't doing a very good job, and that I ought to be replaced by a "professional." Of course, there isn't any "God of the Internet." The Internet works because a lot of people cooperate to do things together.

  Jon Postel

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "NetWorker" Magazine, Summer 1997.

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• Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.

  J. Allan Hobson

  Political, Consistency, Definitions

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• We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

  Klaus Topfer

  Responsibility, Ecosystems, Rescue

  "Scientists find missing links in chimp genome" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

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• Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.

  Kirby Larson

  Book, Writing, Expression

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• That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

  Marcel Proust

  Laughter, World, Next

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• Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

  John Sterling

  Men, Color, Ideas

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.109

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• There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  School, Grad, Made

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

  Misty Copeland

  Growing Up, Gymnastics, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Religious, Kids, Sunday

  "To provide a surprising path through a jungle of notes". Interview with Matthew Zapruder, logger.believermag.com. June 22, 2015.

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• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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• Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Gold, Pot

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• When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

  Deborah Tannen

  Play, Events, Different

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• humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

  Constance Rourke

  Fashion, Humor, Opposites

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• The closest thing to Roseanne Barr's singing the national anthem was my cat being neutered.

  Johnny Carson

  Cat, Singing, Anthem

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• You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

  Octavia Butler

  Cancer, Pride, Animal

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