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• When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Rushing, Acting

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• I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Heart, Eye

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• Local esteem is far more conducive to happiness than general reputation. The latter may be compared to the fixed stars which glimmer so remotely as to afford little light and no warmth. The former is like the sun, each day shedding his prolific and cheering beams.

  William Benton Clulow

  Stars, Cheer, Light

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.415

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• Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.

  Joshua Fernandez

  Believe, Ideas, Definitions

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• Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

  Laura Huxley

  Vocabulary, Life Is Like, Quality

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• A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

  George Jones

  Artist, Jeans, Noses

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.

  Hugh Dancy

  Book, Ideas, People

  "Q&A: Hugh Dancy Sits Down with Hannibal". www.esquire.com. April 4, 2013.

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• There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.

  Susan Mitchell

  Blood, Doubt, Teeth

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• He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Eye, Thinking, Heaven

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• orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Average, Hug

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

  Raymond Geuss

  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• We are what we think about.  When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts.  The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Strength, Thinking, Self

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• If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Men, Laughing, Personality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

  Corey Feldman

  People, Needs, Problem

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• There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

  Horace

  Limits

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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• When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Law, Forever

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.442

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• Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Mind, Sorrow

  Samuel Johnson (1791). “The Rambler”, p.270

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• One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!

  Mary Borden

  Running, Time, Morning

  Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”

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• Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Men, Law

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• No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Giving, Principles

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.1660, Delphi Classics

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• After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other

  Kathy Acker

  Choices, Heaven, Gathering

  Kathy Acker (1994). “My Mother: Demonology”, p.13, Grove Press

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• What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

  Rajneesh

  Teaching, Like Love, Quality

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• I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Believe, Past, Diversity

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