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• Ensure that your life stays in flux.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

  Edward Abbey

  Feet, Long, Support

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• The kaleidoscope has been shaken. The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us re-order this world around us.

  Tony Blair

  Order, Nwo, Pieces

  Address at the Labour Party Conference, delivered 2 October 2001

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• There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality. We can experience that stasis is illusory and that reality is continual flux and change on very subtle and also on gross levels of perception . . . When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  Catherine Ponder

  Blessing, Reality, Oneness

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• Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

  Steve Grand

  Clouds, Long, Together

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• Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.

  Kevin Kelly

  Business, Heart, Years

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• Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.

  Karen Armstrong

  Mean, Knowledge, Thinking

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• All is flux, nothing is stationary.

  Heraclitus

  Stationary

  c.500 BC Quoted in Aristotle De caelo, bk.3, pt.1.18.

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• The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Order, Mind

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• You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

  David Edelstein

  Country, Reading, Mean

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• It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.

  Henry Miller

  Stressed, Needs, Metamorphosis

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• In life everything is continually in flux.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.117, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

  Cyril Connolly

  Communication, Survival, Society

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• The heavy odds against finding the desired... work of art in the mess and flux of life, as opposed to the serene orderliness of imagined reality, give a special tense dazzle and an atmosphere of tour de force to any photographs that succeed in the search.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Reality, Odds

  Janet Malcolm (1997). “Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography”

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• I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali.

  Anton Yelchin

  Inspiration, Thinking, Italian

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.

  Jane Alison

  Love Is, Two, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Are not lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling (but faint and uncertain even in the best) of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for? You have never had it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Passion, Night, Years

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• And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

  Tom Robbins

  Sublime, Tasks, Goes On

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• If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Reading, Phases

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• If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.

  John Donne

  Time, Long, Eternity

  John Donne, John E. Booty (1990). “John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers”, p.7, Paulist Press

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• Transnational corporate networks, and their resulting spatial patterns, are always in a continuous state of flux. At any one time, some parts may be growing rapidly, others may be stagnating, others may be in steep decline.

  Peter Dicken

  May, Patterns, Growing

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.250, SAGE

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• It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.

  Charles Fort

  Expression, Heaven, Hell

  "The Book of The Damned". Book by Charles Fort, 1919.

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• I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Games, Waiting, Trying

  "Garrett Hedlund" by Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Thinking, Names

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.25, Advaita Ashrama

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• That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,
  To have no home in the present.
  And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
  Of the poor hours with eternity.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Home, Wish, Longing

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “Poems”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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