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• Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege of the passions alone to bring them to light, and to direct us sometimes to surer and more excellent aims than conscious effort could.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Passion, Light, Effort

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• With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.

  Bob Shacochis

  Blood, Sweat, Iron

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• There is no greater prediction in the research of our levels of happiness than the breadth and depth of our relationships.

  Michelle Gielan

  Research, Levels, Our Relationship

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Thinking, Play

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• With people in corsets you need, an hour and a half in you have to give somebody something, you have to have those trays with a little bit of fruit going around or something because you get that blood sugar [dropping] thing, so it's curious because that's in your mind at the same time as you're about to say, 'I think it's about the humanity and the depth of feeling and we need to feel [Cinderella] soul expand and by the way, more cheese for the people in the back.'

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Blood, People

  "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating ‘Cinderella’ and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

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• I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.

  Woody Allen

  Artist, Thinking, Substance

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• Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grief, Comfort, Spirit

  Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.38, David C Cook

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• I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

  Kelly Clarkson

  People, Conservative, Problem

  "Kelly Clarkson Reveals the Emotional Stories Behind Piece by Piece, Plus Her Big Plans for Beyonce and Taylor Swift Covers". Glamour Interview, March 10, 2015.

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• I don't like to analyze my music too much. It just comes welling up out of the depths of my soul.

  Larry David

  Soul, Too Much, My Soul

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Part of acting is having the security to turn yourself loose and let yourself go in order to reach whatever depths a character has. If your guts aren't hanging out there, you don't offer anything.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Order, Acting

  "Caught in the Act: New York Actors Face to Face". Book by Don Shewey, www.donshewey.com. 1986.

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• It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard.

  Sai Baba

  Happiness, Voice, Meditation

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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• The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

  Henry Miller

  Love, Sweet, Wall

  Henry Miller (1963). “Black spring”, Grove Pr

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• It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel.

  James Wright

  Resonance, Fine, Novel

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• He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Years, Waiting

  Lord Byron, Lord George Gordon Byron (2013). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.82, Cambridge University Press

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• It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Men, Mind

  1625 Essays, no.9 'Of Atheism'. See Berkeley 79:7.

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• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  Orville Redenbacher

  Air, Dry, Corn

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• Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

  Lord Byron

  World, Truth Is, Found

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• The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

  Martin Frost

  Country, Fall, Icy

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• The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Belief, Prove It

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.32

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• Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.

  Anna Komnene

  Obscurity, Flow, Flood

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• I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

  Jason Isaacs

  University, Bits

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• Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

  Jack London

  Law, Mandates

  Jack London (1904). “The Call of the Wild”

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• Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Height

  1738 A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, 'Divine Love'.

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