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• Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Sea, Ideas, Long

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• Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

  Rona Barrett

  Ironing Board, People, Boards

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• As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.

  Lee Radziwill

  Mother, Children, Opposites

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• Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Causes, Misery, Kind

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• It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

  Diana Lopez

  Dream, Team, Kids

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• Marilyn Monroe to me is the epitome of glamour, and always has been since I was a kid.

  Brad Goreski

  Kids, Glamour, Has Beens

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter Cronkite, you may as well not go into it. Even after I'd try and tell my parents that he was the epitome of left-wing bias. Well, my dad knew it. My grandfather wouldn't believe it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dad, Believe, Wings

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Different

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose,
  it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it
  sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall,
  making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had
  still appeared to be a living beauty.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Summer, Book, Fall

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• Society's epitome of credibility is John Wayne, who sizes up a situation and says, "Here's what I'm going to do" - and you follow him.

  Gary A. Klein

  Size, Wayne, Credibility

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water isbeing warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Morning, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only the Sahasrara has to grow, not the Spirit. The more sensitive the Sahasrara is, the more it receives the spiritual qualities of the Spirit. Actually the peace is felt in the Sahasrara. The bliss is also felt in the Sahasrara because that is the brain and the brain is the epitome of our nervous system, central nervous system, of consciousness itself.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him.

  Shailene Woodley

  Life, Country, Integrity

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• The people we call the prophets I think are the earliest dissident intellectuals, and they're treated like most dissident intellectuals - very badly. They're imprisoned, driven into the desert. King Ahab, the epitome of evil in the Bible, condemned Elijah as a "hater of Israel." This is the first self-hating Jew, the origin of the term. It goes right up to the present. That's the history of intellectuals.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kings, Hate, Thinking

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.

  M. Ward

  Idols, Watches, Singers

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• So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hate, Believe, Names

  Neale Donald Walsch (2004). “Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

  William Wordsworth

  Son, Cities, Confusion

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.698, Wordsworth Editions

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• I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Thinking, Supportive

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• Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Animal, Men, Perfect

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• Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver.

  Jackie Stewart

  Men, Racing, Moss

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• I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Sex, Bass, Way

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• The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

  Ajahn Chah

  Achievement, Peaceful, Mind

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• In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Order, Intelligence

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• A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room.

  Roger Ascham

  Memories, Men, May

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• I volunteered 35 years ago to go to Vietnam and the guy I was running against got out of going to Vietnam with a trick knee! I was an author of the homeland security bill, for goodness' sake! But I wasn't a rubber stamp for the White House. That right there is the epitome of what's wrong with American politics today!

  Max Cleland

  Running, Years, White

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