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• We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

  Lewis Thomas

  Communication, Talking, Trying

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good.

  Mac Anderson

  New Day, Forever, Important

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• Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Believe, Men, Long

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• For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Hands, Too Much

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Return Of Merlin”, p.426, Random House

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• I do not think commodities are taken for granted. One of the convergences in time I noticed, and to me seemed very important, was the emergence of paper money. There had been permissionary notes, exchanging money by writing it, but there was no duplicated form of guaranteeing an exchange.

  Marina Warner

  Taken, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.

  Edward Snowden

  Communication, Thinking, Keys

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• If we, on our most fundamental level, are packets of quantum energy constantly exchanging information with this heaving energy sea, it means that all of us connect with each other and the world at the level of the very undercoat of our being. It also means that we have the power to access much more information about the world than we realize.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Mean, Sea, Energy

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• Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Dream, Others Happiness, Years

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.151, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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• Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.

  Lucy Larcom

  Girl, Simple, Thinking

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Christian, Tents

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.

  Carl Bernstein

  Views, Issues, Doctrine

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Princess, Thinking

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• It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

  Noah Hathaway

  Mean, Littles, Uncomfortable

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• I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.

  George Kotsiopoulos

  Family And Friends, Doing Nothing

  "Fashion Police Star George Kotsiopoulos Talks Best Holiday and Winter Trends". Interview with Chrissy Lorenzo, www.justluxe.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

  Thomas Peterffy

  Thinking, Great Future, Knows

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• By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Blessed, Men

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• Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

  Marianne Wiggins

  Book, Reading, News

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• Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

  Sheridan Hay

  Process, Ageing, Insight

  Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor

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• I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.

  Sessue Hayakawa

  Men, Japan, Two Friends

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• The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self Esteem, Humility, Hands

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Book, Writing, Men

  "The New Industrial State". Foreword to the book by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 7, 1967.

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• I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

  Patricia Moyes

  Cat, Few Words, Greetings

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• Government spending either is completely wasteful, merely transfers income, purchases an intermediate rather than a final good, or purchases valuable final services whose value cannot be ascertained because the transaction is not made by private parties exchanging their own resources in a market setting.

  Robert Higgs

  Party, Government, Finals

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• There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

  Andrew Solomon

  Art, Sublime, Lines

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

  Mary McCarthy

  Friendship, Believe, Growth Hormones

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