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• At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.

  Louise Erdrich

  Memories, Fall, Light

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.31, Odyssey Editions

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• My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wool, My Thoughts, Ran

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Creativity, Illumination

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• The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft; and gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

  John Keats

  Garden, Sky, Listening

  'To Autumn' (1820) st. 3

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• Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Teacher, Adventure, Disciple

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• In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

  Todd Akin

  Intelligence Gathering, Neglect, Humans

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• Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

  Jamais Cascio

  Development, Might, Information

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• I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.

  Tim Ferriss

  Writing, Two, Together

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• It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Believe, Humility, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.77, Vintage

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• Perhaps the heroic element in our natures is exhibited to the best advantage, not in going from success to success, and so on through a series of triumphs, but in gathering, on the very field of defeat itself, the materials for renewed efforts, and in proceeding, with no abatement of heart or energy, to form fresh designs upon the very ruins and ashes of blasted hopes. Yes, it is this indomitable persistence in a purpose, continued alike through defeat and success, that makes, more than aught else, the hero.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hero, Heart, Persistence

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• The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

  Winston Churchill

  Light, Land, Evil

  Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

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• Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

  Carl Tuttle

  Practice, Discipline, Church

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• I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

  Jane Elliott

  Clubs, Fans, Actors

  "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

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• A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?

  C.P. Snow

  Science, Law, People

  C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

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• And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.

  Jennifer Egan

  War, Men, Two

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.271, Anchor

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• I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

  Nancy Gibbs

  World, News, Magazines

  "Nancy Gibbs, Time Executive Editor: iPad May Rejuvenate Long-Form Magazine Journalism" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2010.

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• The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

  Jonathan Raban

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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• When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Data

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

  E. W. Howe

  Guests, Eating, Cents

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• Among friends one has the privilege of saying nothing; the civility consists in the assumption that one's silence will be civilly understood. I can imagine a small gathering of friends who say nothing all evening: they recoil from saying anything that the others don't want to hear; and their silence would be the subtlest courtesy.

  Allen Tate

  Friendship, Silence, Would Be

  Allen Tate (1967). “T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work”, London : Chatto & Windus

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• Our overriding environmental challenge tonight is the worldwide problem of climate change, global warming, the gathering crisis that requires worldwide action.

  William J. Clinton

  Challenges, Environmental, World

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.119, Best Books on

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• Rarely have Americans lived through so much change, in so many ways, in so short a time. Quietly, but with gathering force, the ground has shifted beneath our feet as we have moved into an Information Age, a global economy, a truly new world.

  William J. Clinton

  Feet, Age, World

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.112, Best Books on

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• Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

  Lionel Barber

  Media, People, News

  "Lionel Barber's Fulbright lecture - full text". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2011.

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• Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

  Steve Kimock

  Vibes, Youth, Elders

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• I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Together, Obsession

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