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• We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

  John Quincy Adams

  Understanding, Who We Are, Made

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• Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Sadness, Discovery

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• The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Real, Past

  Clinton, William J (1998). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1997”, p.1816, Best Books on

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• Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he known, but the long, marital embrace with his wife. Curious, that this was what his life amounted to! At any rate, it was something, it was eternal. He would say so to anybody, and be proud of it. He lay with his wife in his arms, and she was still his fulfillment, just the same as ever. And that was the be-all and the end-all. Yes, and he was proud of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Long, Wife, Done

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• she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Adolescence, Wanted

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• May you shelter in the palm of the Creator's hand, and may the last embrace of the mother welcome you home.

  Robert Jordan

  Mother, Home, Hands

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.211, Macmillan

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• Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Bed, Would Be

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• It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and methods. I believe in the beauties of philosophy and poetry. I believe that the work we do and leave behind us is our afterlife; and I believe that history lies, but sometimes so well that I can't bring myself to resent it. I believe that truth is beauty, but not, I'm afraid, the reverse. It doesn't seem sufficient to sustain one in life's rigorous moments. Perhaps I shall embrace Islam. Its standards for poetry seem very high.

  Emma Bull

  Lying, Philosophy, Believe

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• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Sensual, Elation

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

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• The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.183, Penguin

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• In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.

  Tom Robbins

  Struggle, Home, Maturity

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• Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

  Terry Goodkind

  Light, Evil, Giving

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.366, Head of Zeus

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• She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Voice, Roots, Dust

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• I do know that there have been many Native people - I don't like to call them "Native Americans," I guess, definitely not "Indians" - I've seen and read a lot about there's a big number of Natives that don't mind the Redskins name and they actually embrace it. Although there are a number of groups as well that are opposed to it.

  Donte Stallworth

  Native American, People, Mind

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• But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

  George Orwell

  Party, Blow, Hatred

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Reality, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.104, Anchor

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• Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

  Howard Schultz

  Challenging The Status Quo, Today, Principles

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• Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy.

  Will Self

  Phones, Age, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self and Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Fashion, People, Energy

  "Tavi interviews Chloe Sevigny about skate threads and fashion weirdos" by And Teran, www.mtv.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

  Patti Smith

  People, Want, Communicate

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Sacrifice, Immigration

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• I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money.

  Angie Stone

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

  James Surowiecki

  Simple, Ideas, Want

  "The Regulation Crisis". www.newyorker.com. June, 2010.

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Thinking

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