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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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• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Islam, Stable

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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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 never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

  Michael Nesmith

  Ideas, Going Away, Feels

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

  George S. Patton

  Army, Men, Stupidity

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• I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

  Henry Bessemer

  Ideas, Practice, Long

  Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

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• To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

  Percy Williams Bridgman

  Determined, Length, Operations

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• Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Objects

  John Stuart Mill (2013). “Autobiography”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Passion, Character, Soul

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 413, 1982.

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• Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.

  John Cassian

  Men, Law, Circles

  John Cassian, Aeterna Press (2016). “John Cassian Collection [4 Books]”, p.671, Aeterna Press

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• A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Women, Heart

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• The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.

  Albert Pike

  Eye, Men, Cheerful

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Standing Out, Remains

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

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• I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

  Roald Dahl

  Simple, Thinking, Routine

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.165, Penguin

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• The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

  Erich Fromm

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Consistency, Feelings, Opinion

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• The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Education, Philosophy, Principles

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• I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

  Natasha Henstridge

  Feet, Never Forget, Old Days

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• Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

  Andre Kertesz

  Photography, Photographer, Moments

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• When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.

  Humphry Davy

  Two, Numbers, Elements

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• But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

  Elias Hicks

  Heart, Rebel, Sin

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.221

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• Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Paper, Able, Emotion

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• The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

  Harold H. Greene

  Thinking, Umpires, Justice

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• Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Eye, Earth, Today

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford (1990). “Jehovah's Witnesses I: The Early Writings of J.F. Rutherford”, Taylor & Francis

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