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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  Karen Abbott

  Country, Practice, Ideas

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• I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind.

  Howard Thurman

  Religious, Mind, Way

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• When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. They have abdomens that become full of fluid. Their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. Those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.

  John Roberts

  Confused, People, Ankles

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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• Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

  Robert Heller

  Successful, Innovation, Passionate

  "Business strategy: the lessons of the 'big ideas" by Robert Heller in his blog "Thinking Managers", June 30, 2009.

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• Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.

  Ernst Haas

  Grateful, Secret, Trying

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• The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.

  John Piper

  Baby, Heart, Cells

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• Both bisexuality and transgender are fluid notions of identity, while lesbian and gay are fixed identities. Some people believe that means there should be two movements: LG and BT. But then what're ya gonna do about SM players? And intersexed folks who want their own I in the alphabet soup of sex and gender related politics?

  Kate Bornstein

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  "Interview with Kate". TV Series "P.O.V." ("Georgie Girl"), www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.

  Franz Bardon

  Air, Fire, Water

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• I think some of this just feels right. You're in the shower and you come up with a sentence and it's beautiful. You don't know how it's going to fit in the film, but you put it in because it feels right. This is a very long way of saying, so much of it is me feeling like I'm catching ideas rather than coming up with ideas. It's very fluid like that.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Love is all around us all the time. Love is the ethers that we swim in. Love is the amniotic fluid of the soul.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Swim, Soul

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I would imagine the inside of a bottle of cleaning fluid is really clean. I would imagine a vodka bottle is really drunk.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Drunk

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• My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself.

  Miranda July

  Writing, House, Comforting

  Interview with Eli Horowitz, www.believermag.com.

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• The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

  Frank Herbert

  Ecosystems, Niche, Realizing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.427, Penguin

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• Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Views, World, Vulnerable

  Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor', www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• I have to drink a lot of fluids, try not to dehydrate, and keep stretching.

  Johan Santana

  Trying, Drink, Stretching

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• American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Media, Swings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person's vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that's very fluid and graceful.

  Tara Brach

  Moving, Space, Together

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I look at somebody like my husband or President Obama. They are so natural. I mean, they are fluid, they got the moves, they can just go into a room and really capture it, they've got charisma.

  Hillary Clinton

  Husband, Moving, Mean

  "This Hillary Clinton interview is my favorite of the entire 2016 election". www.washingtonpost.com. October 26, 2016.

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• There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

  Zaha Hadid

  Organization, Ideas, Drawing

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.

  Cakes da killa

  People, Looks, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, White, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Conscious, Behalf

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• I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.

  Bradford Cox

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Past, Magic, Needs

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• The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

  David Abram

  World, Shifting, Mood

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