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• It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Reality, Mind, Littles

  Samael Aun Weor (2008). “Fundamentals of Gnostic Education: Gnosis, the Consciousness, and Learning How to Think”, Glorian Publishing

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  People, Mind, World

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• I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

  Janet Jackson

  Trying, Income, Used

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• I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.

  Philip Johnson

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

  Peter York

  Character, Gay, Keys

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• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  Gerald Kersh

  Lonely, Dog, Stars

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• I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Clouds, Knowing

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.294, Simon and Schuster

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• My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Night, Four

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.117, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our seasons have no fixed returns, Without our will they come and go; At noon our sudden summer burns, Ere sunset all is snow.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Sunset, Snow

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.98

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• The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Attitude, Mean, Artist

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• A Classical style... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.

  James Joyce

  Country, Art, Style

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.1542, Delphi Classics

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• What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Horse, Wind, Knives

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.

  Meister Eckhart

  Strong, Solitude, Mind

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Lying, Writing

  William Carlos Williams (1920). “Kora in Hell: Improvisations”

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• One is so apt to think of people's affection as a fixed quantity, instead of a sort of moving so with the tide, always going out or coming in but still fundamentally there: and I believe this difficulty in making allowance for the tide is the reason for half the broken friendships.

  Freya Stark

  Moving, Believe, Thinking

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• If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

  Brian Tracy

  Clear Goals, Focus, Lines

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• The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Important, Realizing

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• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

  Pema Chodron

  Change, Fleeting, Firsts

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Color, Law, Drawing

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• In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Heart, Long

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Neither ancients nor moderns who were good men have done such ,a deed that, after promising ,a daughter to one man, they have her to another, Nor, indeed, have we heard, even in former creations, of such ,a thing as the covert sale of a daughter for a fixed price, called a nuptial fee.

  Guru Nanak

  Daughter, Men, Good Man

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• What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Mean, Way

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

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• We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Past, Views

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• The resurrection is not a static and an isolated event fixed in the past, but the unleashing of a power and force that takes the form of a death defying love. Resurrection is ever present, constantly accosting us, challenging us, stretching us, cracking us open and seeking to have its way with us in order that we might come to maturity in Christ.

  Frank Griswold

  Maturity, Past, Order

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• To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Night, Sky

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