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• IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Death, Sitting, Body

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.98, 谷月社

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• While all other things are uncertain, evanescent, and ephemeral, virtue alone is fixed with deep roots; it can neither be overthrown by any violence or moved from its place.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Roots, Ephemeral, Violence

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• Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state's economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

  Joe Manchin

  Jobs, Believe, High Heels

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• It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Girl, Character, Training

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• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

  Nassau William Senior

  Science, Nomenclature, Principles

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• IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Hero, Thinking

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• There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin

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• History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.

  D. A. Fisher

  Christian, Education, Teacher

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• We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Blessed, Eye

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Children, Parent, Citizens

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2008, Princeton University Press

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• Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, Events, Frozen

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Rolling Stones”, p.154, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

  Bill Gates

  Numbers, Want, Bugs

  "Focus" Magazine, October 23, 2005.

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• Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of
  chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.

  Truman Capote

  Years, Games, Play

  1965 In Cold Blood, ch.4.

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• Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Quality, Doe, Patterns

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• I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.

  Mona Hatoum

  People, Identity, Culture

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• Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Book, Fall

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons".

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• At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral; in the evening I become so sentimental that I would fain drink up the Milky Way without reflecting how indigestible I should find the little fixed stars, and by night there is the Devil himself broke loose in my head and no mistake.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars, Mistake, Night

  Heinrich Heine (1882). “Heinrich Heine's Pictures of Travel”

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
  The citizens burning to approve a wrong
  Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
  Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
  Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
  Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
  Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
  As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

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• In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Mind, Fancy

  1841 'Thoughts on Art', in The Dial, vol.1, no.3, Jan.

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• I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Fate, Waiting, Events

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Jesus, Ideas, Soul

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• Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Certain, Written

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• The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia

  Karl Marx

  Stars, Russia, Tactics

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1952). “The Russian menace to Europe: a collection of articles, speeches, letters, and news dispatches, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels”

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• There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

  John Steinbeck

  Medicine, Patient, Ends

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

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