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• I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

  Joichi Ito

  Broken Heart, Japan, Democracy

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• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Prayer, Determined

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• Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

  Erica Jong

  Giving, Way, Kind

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from May 02, 2016

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• There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Wind, Ill Will

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)”, p.532, Delphi Classics

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• Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

  Hanna Rosin

  Taken, Independent, House

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• You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
  all this leprous day and then more vodka,
  more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
  the pond sucking out the throb.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Forgiving, Ponds

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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