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• Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.

  John Galsworthy

  Men, Emotional, Hands

  Preface to "Villa Rubein and Other Stories". Book by John Galsworthy, 1923.

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• To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

  Frank Herbert

  Dimensions, Eternity, Whim

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.156, Penguin

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• Each life creates endless ripples.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Ripple

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.72, Penguin

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• Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Prayer, Toil, Abiding

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.279

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• In the networks' endless pursuit of controversy, we should ask what is the end value ... to enlighten or to profit? What is the end result ... to inform or to confuse? How does the ongoing exploration for more action, more excitements, more drama, serve our national search for internal peace and stability.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Drama, Doe, Ongoing

  John R. Coyne, Spiro T. Agnew (1972). “The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment”, New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

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• If you want to make something clear to someone, you mustn't forget the main point, the most important thing, and if you bring in something else as an illustration you mustn't wander off into endless irrelevancies.

  Anton Webern

  Illustration, Important, Want

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• God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Hands, Feet, Forever

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• Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

  Hannah Kent

  Dark, Hateful, Bones

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• We all have come from infinity, We all live within infinity, We all shall return to infinity, We are all manifestation of one infinity, We are all brothers and sisters of one infinite universe, Let us love each other, Let us help each other, Let us encourage each other, Let us all together continue to realize The endless dream of one peaceful world, We are always ONE forever.

  Michio Kushi

  Dream, Brother, Forever

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• The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Brain, Unemployment, World

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• To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Father, Son, Blessing

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• In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Men, Unique

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 3 (p. 21), 1958.

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• What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Discovery, Comfort, Goes On

  Georg H. W. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (2008). “Philosophy of Right”, p.102, Cosimo, Inc.

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• O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Trust, Journey, Beloved

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Poetical Works of H.W. Longfellow ...”, p.77

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• Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature.

  Washington Irving

  Writing, Creative, Mind

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.139, e-artnow

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• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Impact, Numbers, Principles

  Margaret Thatcher (2017). “Statecraft”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.

  William Carlos Williams

  Anticipation, Descent, Lost

  1948 Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.

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• In our eyes the roads are endless. Two are crossroads of the shadow.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Eye, Two, Shadow

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• Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.

  Bram Stoker

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• On the geometric level, we see certain physical elements repeated endlessly, combined in an almost endless variety of combinations. It is puzzling to realize that the elements, which seem like elementary building blocks, keep varying, and are different every time that they occur. If the elements are different every time that they occur, evidently then, it cannot be the elements themselves which are repeating in a building or town; these so-called elements cannot be the ultimate "atomic" constituents of space.

  Christopher Alexander

  Block, Space, Different

  "The Timeless Way of Building". Book by Christopher Alexander, 1979.

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• What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in "Harper's Magazine", Entry (1951), July 2005.

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• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Humor, Thinking

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• I am alone, as though I stood     On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow,     Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden,     And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those     Who are not lonely, having died.

  Sara Teasdale

  Lonely, Tired, Space

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

  Camille Paglia

  Compassion, Feminism, Doe

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.

  Donald Barthelme

  Ideas, Demand, Next

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