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• Seen in retrospect, evolution as a whole doubtless had a general direction, from simple to complex, from dependence on to relative independence of the environment, to greater and greater autonomy of individuals, greater and greater development of sense organs and nervous systems conveying and processing information about the state of the organism's surroundings, and finally greater and greater consciousness. You can call this direction progress or by some other name.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Simple, Names, Independence

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• The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

  Natalia Makarova

  Dance, Running, Spiritual

  Natalia Makarova, Gennady Smakov, Dina Makarova (1979). “A dance autobiography”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Letters, Able

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.112, Random House

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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• Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

  Paul Auster

  Pieces, Literature, Dry

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• The novel's not the best form for disposing ideas, though that's one thing it can do. It likely is the best form, though, for conveying the experience of us each being alone, trapped in our skulls with only these bodies and this imperfect instrument of language to convey our state and to find meaning and connection.

  Michael Helm

  Ideas, Skulls, Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.

  Bridgit Mendler

  Song, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

  Rod Serling

  Simple, Expression, Political

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• Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Eye, Skins, Handwriting

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• Mab turned back to me and eyed me up and down. She quirked one eyebrow, very slightly, somehow conveying layers of disapproval toward multiple aspects of my appearance, conduct, and situation, and said, 'Finally.' 'There’s been a lot on my mind,' I replied. 'It seems unlikely that your cares will lighten,' Queen Mab replied. 'Improve your mind.'

  Jim Butcher

  Queens, Eyebrows, Mind

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• Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.

  N. T. Wright

  Art, Sea, Water

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• The only merit I have is to have painted directly from nature with the aim of conveying my impressions in front of the most fugitive effects.

  Claude Monet

  Merit, Fugitive, Impression

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• The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

  Claude Monet

  Character, Giving, Sincerity

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• If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Korea, Support, Needs

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• I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.

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• I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

  Quentin Crisp

  Noise, Information, Minimum

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.

  Ken Danby

  Teacher, Teaching, Artist

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• In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

  Samuel Gompers

  Rights, Ideas, White

  "The Samuel Gompers Papers: The American Federation of Labor and the Great War, 1917-18". Book by Samuel Gompers, edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino, p. 348, 2006.

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• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, Communication, Government

  "Tactical Reflections" by L. Neil Smith, www.lneilsmith.org.

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• Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.

  Gerald Brommer

  Editing, Firsts, Steps

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• I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

  Claude Monet

  Order, Succeed, Painting

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process
  through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.

  Jacques Maritain

  Spiritual, Civilization, Aim Of Education

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• Mike's (Tyson) punch is like an atomic bomb in that it is relative to nature. Both have no value unless you have a means of conveying it to the target. He is boxing-smart.

  Cus D'Amato

  Smart, Mean, Boxing

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• I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.

  Eben Alexander

  Believe, Numbers, Knowing

  "Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife". Book by Eben Alexander, October 23, 2012.

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• Motivation needs to be a part of your own life for you to be effective in conveying it to others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Needs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 20, 2013

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