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• Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

  Julio Cortazar

  Sleep, Sky, Missing

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.470, Pantheon

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• Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, Eye, Air

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.68, Penguin

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• ...But he was a good landlord. When my heater stopped working in mid-December, it took him only two weeks to get it fixed. Of course, it took me knocking on his door in need of a warm place to sleep to get it that way, but one night on his sofa, where I’d suddenly developed night terrors and epilepsy, and that puppy was running like a Mercedes the next day. It was awesome.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Sleep, Night

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.31, Macmillan

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• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Children, Acceptance

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

  Lisa Kleypas

  Needs, Conversation, Convinced

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• Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground beneath his feet. It didn't matter if you acknowledged it or not. You couldn't stop the motion of the earth or hold back the ocean tides, or break the pull of the moon. You couldn't stop the rain or pull a shade over the sun.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Stars, Rain, Ocean

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• Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me." Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window. "Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy.

  Catherine Fisher

  Daughter, Home, Dark

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• I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take.

  Alyson Noel

  Mean, Fate, Action

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.425, Pan Macmillan

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• Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

  Daniel Keyes

  Book, Writing, Son

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stars, Laughter, Expectations

  Joseph Conrad (1995). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

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• Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation.

  Ernst Mayr

  Generations, Variation, New Start

  "Toward a new philosophy of biology: observations of an evolutionist". Book by Ernst Mayr, p. 457, 1988.

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• Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

  Harry Crews

  Fire, Lakes, Air

  Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sight, Air, Sea

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.54, Vintage

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• The first real air-liner, carrying some five or six hundred passengers, will probably appear after or towards the end of the battle between fixed and moving-wing machines. And it will be a flying boat.

  Oliver Stewart

  Real, Moving, Air

  Oliver Stewart (1928). “Aeolus: Or, The Future of the Flying Machine”

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• I am the Soul.
  I am the Light Divine.
  I am Love.
  I am Will.
  I am Fixed Design.

  Alice Bailey

  Inspirational, Life, Light

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• There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Mind, Faces, Firsts

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1934, Delphi Classics

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• The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.

  Richard Preston

  Character, Order, Circles

  Richard Preston (2008). “Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science”, p.35, Random House

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• We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are a part of the universe, and are connected with each other to form one whole unity. This idea helps the mind of the child to become fixed, to stop wandering in an aimless quest for knowledge. He is satisfied, having found the universal centre of himself with all things.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, Unity

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as something given--something to which people, as mere spectators, must adapt.

  Paulo Freire

  People, World, Problem

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.

  Julius Evola

  Self, Civilization, Perfection

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• It had always been a notion of mine that sanity is like a clearing in the jungle where the humans agree to meet from time to time and behave in certain fixed ways that even a baboon could master, like Englishmen dressing for dinner in the tropics.

  Wilfrid

  Dinner, Way, Sanity

  "In Love with Daylight". Book by Wilfrid Sheed, 1995.

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• A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

  Stephen Toulmin

  Change, Commitment, Ideas

  "Human Understanding". Book by Stephen Toulmin (Volume 1 "The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts", epigraph), 1972.

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• Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing.  That's why we don't understand what's happening.

  Jacque Fresco

  Love Is, Happenings

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• India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Thinking, Challenges, India

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• A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

  Alfred Binet

  Memories, Intelligent, Practice

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