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Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

Gene Cernan

Space, Clouds, Sight

"This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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In an age of constant live connections, the central question of self-examination is drifting from ‘Who are you?’ towards ‘What are you doing?

Tom Chatfield

Self, Age, Connections

Tom Chatfield, The School of Life (2012). “How to Thrive in the Digital Age”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.

Sarah Silverman

Dream, Sleep, Drifting Off

"Andy Warhol’s Interview Interview: Sarah Silverman". Interview with Andy Warhol, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2013.

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As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

Tim Scott

School, Kids, Frustration

"Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

Evelyn Waugh

Fall, Light, Drifting Off

"Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.

Virginia Gildersleeve

Wind

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About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

Earl Nightingale

Successful, Wind, People

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The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

Glen Hansard

Technology, Smartphones, People

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You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Inspirational, Beautiful, Unique

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It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

Lisa Unger

Zero, Children, Fall

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I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

William Howard Taft

Real, Thinking, Patriotism

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I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.

Abby Sunderland

Ocean, Home, Feelings

Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.195, Thomas Nelson Inc

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Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert

T. E. Lawrence

War, Army, Ideas

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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.

Edward Abbey

Aquariums, Violet, Ink

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

Lynn Johnston

Dream, Morning, Lying

Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

Martin Heidegger

Men, Fog, Profound

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From some home a jade flute sends dark notes drifting,
Scattering on the spring wind that fills Lo-yang.
Tonight, if we should hear the willow-breaking song,
Who could help but long for the gardens of home?

Li Bai

Song, Spring, Home

Li Po, “Spring Night In Lo-Yang Hearing A Flute”

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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

H. G. Wells

Money, Disappointment, Hate

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You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

Rumi

Life, Sea, Long

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Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that

Steve Ovett

Running, Frustration, Agony

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That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Beatrice Webb

Political, Found, Englishmen

Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.

Jack Finney

Past, Rivers, Curves

Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

Pentti Linkola

Thinking, People, Population

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Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

Laozi

Compassion, Sea, Taoism

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I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve I wrote 'bankrupt' at the foot. And it was on Christmas morning 1895, after I had celebrated three Masses, while the bells of the parish church were ringing out the Christmas message of peace, that, with great pain, I found myself far out from the familiar land--homeless, aimlessly drifting. But the bells were right after all; from that hour on I have been wholly free from the nightmare of doubt that had lain on me for ten years.

Joseph McCabe

Morning, Pain, Feet

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