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• Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sadness, Creativity, Errors

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.69, Macmillan

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• What wondrous life is this I lead!
  Ripe apples drop about my head;
  The luscious clusters of the vine
  Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
  The nectarine and curious peach
  Into my hands themselves do reach;
  Stumbling on melons, as I pass,
  Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

  Andrew Marvell

  Life, Crush, Summer

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• Sometimes, however, the new synthetic complex proves stable, and even serves as the beginning of a much larger cluster of attitudes that displace some we've previously considered to be fixed parts of ourselves.

  Philip Kitcher

  Attitude, Sometimes, Synthetic

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.

  Charles Handy

  Inspirational, Fashion, Strong

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, Harvard Business Press

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• Above us our palace waits, the only one I've ever needed. Its walls are space, its floor is sky, its center everywhere. We rise; the shapes cluster around us in welcome, dissolving and forming again like fireflies in a summer evening.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Summer, Wall, Firefly

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.360, Anchor

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• Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

  George Polya

  Science, Discovery, Mushrooms

  George Pólya (1948). “How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method”

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• As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Destiny

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• The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

  Evan Davis

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are a form of ranching; instead of herding cattle, I herd books. Writing is a form of herding, too; I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Writing, Animal

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• Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Keys, Financial, Economic

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• As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests.

  Douglas Wilson

  Reading, Interest

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• The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.

  Henry James

  Brother, Real, Artist

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• A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) [T]he selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.

  Anthony Giddens

  Role Models, Unity, Important

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• They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Knowledge, Israel, Battle

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• And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that had sprung up mysteriously overnight or the old ones that had been stricken with disease and lay cracked apart-a head here, a broken body and three lumps of coal there-and one day he looked up from a piece of snow-colored rice paper and knew he was done. It was as simple as that: you bent over your work night after night, and one day you were done. Snow still lay in dirty streaks on the ground but clusters of yellow-green flowers hung from the sugar maples.

  Steven Millhauser

  Morning, Dirty, Flower

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• I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Science, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.665, GENERAL PRESS

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• Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Butterfly, Garden

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.10

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• Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

  John Berger

  Stars, Night, Sky

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mean, Land, Yugoslavia

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• Without doing injustice to the living, it may safely be asserted that our loss is irreparable; and that among the shining hosts of the great and good who now cluster around the banner of the country, there exists no purer spirit, no more heroic soul, than that of the illustrious man whose death I join you in lamenting.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, War, Loss

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• Ask of Her, the mighty Mother.
  Her reply puts this other
  Question: What is Spring?-
  Growth in every thing -
  
  Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
  Grass and green world all together,
  Star-eyed strawberry breasted
  Throstle above Her nested
  
  Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
  Forms and warms the life within,
  And bird and blossom swell
  In sod or sheath or shell.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mother, Stars, Spring

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Selected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one.

  Mark Twain

  Perseverance, Stars, Tired

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2762, GENERAL PRESS

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• It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family.

  David Abram

  Character, Years, Tree

  David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.35, Vintage

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• A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Stars, Light, Sky

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be.

  Dave Eggers

  Cities, People, Dancing

  Dave Eggers (2009). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.223, Vintage

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