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• Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

  Matthew Arnold

  Law, Criticism, Poetic

  Matthew Arnold (1973). “English Literature and Irish Politics”, p.163, University of Michigan Press

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• Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.

  David Ricardo

  Two, May, Durability

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.21

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• My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Ambition, My Ambition

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• There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Black, Literature, Matter

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• What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teacher, School, Training

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Grateful, Enough, Habit

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• Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

  Anna Freud

  Papa, Unexplained, Psychoanalytic

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• A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

  Juliet Mitchell

  Future, Worst

  Juliet Mitchell (1984). “Women: The Longest Revolution”, Pantheon

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• One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

  Virginia Foxx

  Needs, Social, Polls

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• All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.358, Tuttle Publishing

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• It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

  Thomas Reid

  Law, Facts, Influence

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.66, Georg Olms Verlag

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• I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

  John Engler

  Children, School, Able

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• [His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.

  Vincent Canby

  Time, Forever, Acting

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• Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

  Aaron Hill

  Belief, Moral, Birth

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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Motivational, Perseverance, Determination

  Samuel Johnson (1834). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.14

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• The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

  Brooks Atkinson

  Life, Science, Views

  Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Block, Ignorance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

  F. H. Bradley

  Writing, Heart, Blood

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley No. 25, 1930.

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Leadership, Business, Men

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Fighting, Hands

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• I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

  Tom T. Hall

  Stories, Moral, Judgment

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• I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

  David Byrne

  Creativity, Artist, Creative

  "Therapy is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?". The Guardian Friday interview, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2001.

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• What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Mom, Mother, Son

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