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• The past isn't fixed and frozen in place. Instead, its meaning changes as life unfolds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Past, Frozen

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• Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Grief, Problem, Process

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• Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Book, Fall

  "The Works of Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the imagination. Prayers and sermons".

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• In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Race, Cities, India

  "The Transition to a Global Society". Book by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, 1991.

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• In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Mind, Fancy

  1841 'Thoughts on Art', in The Dial, vol.1, no.3, Jan.

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• I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Fate, Waiting, Events

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

  Gore Vidal

  Trying, Reform, Should

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• In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Jesus, Ideas, Soul

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• There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward.

  John Steinbeck

  Medicine, Patient, Ends

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.709, Penguin

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• Desire is poison at lunch and wormwood at dinner; your bed is a stone, friendship is hateful and your fancy is always fixed on one thing.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sex, Lunch, Desire

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Music, School, Two

  "Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 1990.

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• The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

  Lewis Mumford

  Time, Cutting, Reality

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• Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Lying, Identity, Certain

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Henry IV”, p.34, Luigi Pirandello

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• Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Ideas, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. February, 2008.

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• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.

  Janet Frame

  Morning, Mean, Hands

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Children, Light, Law

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• All the species recognized by Botanists came forth from the Almighty Creator's hand, and the number of these is now and always will be exactly the same, while every day new and different florists' species arise from the true species so-called by Botanists, and when they have arisen they finally revert to the original forms. Accordingly to the former have been assigned by Nature fixed limits, beyond which they cannot go: while the latter display without end the infinite sport of Nature.

  Carl Linnaeus

  Sports, Science, Hands

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• The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

  Terry Eagleton

  Past, Philosopher, Curious

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• If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Mean, Atoms, Nuclear

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.61, Princeton University Press

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• Individuals inherit a particular space within an interlocking set of social relationships; lacking that space, they are nobody, or at best a stranger or an outcast. To know oneself as such a social person is however not to occupy a static and fixed position. It is to find oneself placed at a certain point on a journey with set goals; to move through life is to make progress - or to fail to make progress - toward a given end.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Life, Moving, Journey

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.39, A&C Black

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• Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Fashion, Business, Stress

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• Pause and remember - The past is over and it cannot be changed, fixed or undone by continuing to think about it. The quicker we can get over our mistakes, understand the lessons and move forward, the healthier we become to ourselves and everyone around us!

  Jennifer Young

  Mistake, Moving, Recovery

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• Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours of the day-light and the hours of darkness at last draw parallel and then the light finally and triumphantly wins out. Thus Easter is always fixed as the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox. It's a cosmic, solar, and lunar event as deeply rooted in religious traditions originating from sun-god worship as one could conceivably imagine.

  Tom Harpur

  Religious, Easter, Spring

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• Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  School, Religion, Syllabus

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.81, Sahitya Akademi

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• Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

  Deval Patrick

  Jobs, Massachusetts, Fine

  "Deval Patrick DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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