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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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• I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

  Tom Glazer

  Numbers, Discipline, People

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• Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

  Bram Stoker

  Castles, Literature, Entrances

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.316, Zillmann Publishing

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• you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Letting Go, Aggravation, Done

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• Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

  A. E. Housman

  Strong, Heaven, Earth

  A. E. Housman, “Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; The Arms You Bear Are Brittle”

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• If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Worry, Decision

  "The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2004.

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• They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

  Martin Luther

  Stars, Trying, Planets

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• Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Destiny, Thinking

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.

  Philip Pullman

  Fate, Destiny, Speak

  "The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1996.

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• War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

  Judith Hand

  Uplifting, War, Caring

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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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• When God would make His Name known to mankind He could find no better word than "I AM." When He speaks in the first person He says, "I AM"; when we speak of Him we say, "He is"; when we speak to Him we say, "Thou art." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point. "I am that I am," says God, "I change not."

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Change, Names, Mankind

  "The Pursuit of God".

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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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• 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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• If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, Artist, Technique

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• It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Eye, Forget, Easy

  Joe Abercrombie (2012). “The Heroes: A First Law Novel”, p.108, Hachette UK

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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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• We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's eating at you and eating at you, and you want to say it to the person that you care about the most, but you're so afraid it's going to destroy everything. Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say - when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it's the entropy, the leak that doesn't get fixed.

  Bob Mould

  Want, Care, Eating

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Unfortunately, they develop a fixed mindset that they're the most talented, and they think that continued success is a right. Problems arise because pure talent only works as long as the going is easy. Furthermore, they don't take risks because failure would harm their image of being the best, brightest, and most talented. When they do fail, they deny it or attribute it to anything but their shortcomings.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Success, Business, Thinking

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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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• 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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• Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

  Max Stirner

  Spring, Ideas, Crime

  Max Stirner (2012). “The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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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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• It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing and being that entails a difficult and prolonged readjustment. the reflexive mechanism of the mind -or whatever it is that allows us to be self-conscious - is cut off or permanently suspended so the mind is ever after held in a fixed now moment out of which it cannot move in its uninterrupted gaze upon the Unknown

  Bernadette Roberts

  Moving, Cutting, Discovery

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• Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

  William Robertson Smith

  Men, Religion, Sides

  William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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