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• Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Real, Ideas

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• One way to determine if a view is inadequate is to check its consequences in particular cases, sometimes extreme ones, but if someone always decided what the result should be in any case by applying the given view itself, this would preclude discovering it did not correctly fit the case. Readers who hold they would plug in to the machine should notice whether their first impulse was not to do so, followed later by the thought that since only experiences could matter, the machine would be all right after all.

  Robert Nozick

  Views, Would Be, Machines

  Robert Nozick (1990). “Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Men, Doors

  "The Writings of Abraham Lincoln" by Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 5, (pp. 6-7), 2004.

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• Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

  George Washington

  People, Voting, Littles

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.358

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• Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Compromise, Sin, Wonderful

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• If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Truth, War, Hero

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• His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

  Colson Whitehead

  Sleep, Thinking, Males

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• Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is] the biota and the land itself.

  Roderick Nash

  Land, Environmental, Elements

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• We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

  Charles Kettering

  Enemy, Machines, Daily Life

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• ... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very important means of learning and self-discovery, this means which has been used, respected, and honored for thousands of years, in every human culture of which we have a record?

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mean, Discovery, Self

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Men, Hands

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• But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  'Last Poems' (1922) no. 10

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• Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

  Camille Paglia

  Abortion, Casual, Mass

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• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Prayer, Live Life

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Tourism, Tourists, Culture

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• Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually.

  Guido van Rossum

  Independent, Python, Java

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• They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

  Lisa Unger

  Life, Bullshit, Finding Peace

  Lisa Unger (2014). “In the Blood: Chilling grip-lit with a breathtaking twist you won't see coming”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Not all horses are going to be show jumpers, not all horses are going to be dressage horses. So you have to sort of find where the horse physically fits into what might suit him, but all horses can be comfortable and all horses can have good, solid fundamentals.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Fundamentals, Might

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• Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Unique, Bed, Needs

  Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent B. Geary (2000). “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, p.17, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• It fits to glorify God - it not only fits reality, because God is infinitely and supremely praiseworthy, but it fits us as nothing else does. All the beauty we have looked for in art or faces or places - and all the love we have looked for in the arms of other people - is only fully present in God himself. And so in every action by which we treat him as glorious as he is, whether through prayer, singing, trusting, obeying, or hoping, we are at once giving God his due and fulfilling our own design.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Art, Prayer

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

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• He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Punishment, Giving

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• As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Christmas, Good Friend, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.423

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• The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence.

  George MacDonald

  Teaching, Men, Essence

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.6149, e-artnow

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• We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who's going to be the perfect fit. It's just not a reality.

  Ethan Hawke

  Reality, Perfect, Fantasy

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• I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

  Roger Waters

  Learning, Journey, Addiction

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