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• We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct.

  Alex Majoli

  Moving, Thinking, Order

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• Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

  Peter Behrens

  Journey, Shapes, Way

  Peter Behrens (2007). “The Law Of Dreams”, p.356, Canongate Books

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• Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

  Allison Glock

  Crazy, Issues, Tea

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• A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

  Ami McKay

  War, Writing, Character

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• The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Political, Moral, Canvas

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• Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting with their loud colors or whispering with their seeds; rocks snag lichen spores from the air and shelter spiders under their flanks; clouds converse with the fathomless blue and metamorphose into one another; they spill rain upon the land, which gathers in rivulets and carves out canyons.

  David Abram

  Rain, Blue, Color

  "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmolog". Book by David Abram, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand

  Robert Macfarlane

  Feet, World, Lines

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• Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.

  Randy Alcorn

  Prayer, Struggle, Character

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• I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.

  Daryl Hannah

  Strong, Butterfly, Profound

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• When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can become suspect to us. Even something as simple as their walking into a room or whispering something to someone else can be conjured up in our minds, to look to us as if they're doing it on purpose to irritate us -as if they're involved in some diabolical plot to hurt us further. What they may be doing may have no connection to their past actions that hurt us in the first place but our resentful feelings against them can often taint our perception of what's really taking place.

  Cindy Wright

  Hurt, Past, Simple

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• Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons

  Ric Ocasek

  Past, Mind, Weapons

  Song: The Big Picture, Album: Quick Change World

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• Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

  Craig Newmark

  Doe, Sometimes, Approach

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• OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Song, Attitude

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.174, University of Georgia Press

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• The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

  Ken Wilber

  Beauty, Taste, Spontaneous

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.68, Shambhala Publications

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• Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Men, Color

  "The Hollow Men" l. 13 (1925)

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• The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

  Andrew Potter

  War, Men, Presence Of Mind

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• Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Smile, Promise, Desire

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• The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Life, Morning, Moving

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• I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

  Bill James

  Communication, Writing, People

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• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

  Josef Pieper

  Fall, Taken, Ambition

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Forever, Lasts, Sometimes

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.76, Penguin

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• My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.

  Deborah Butterfield

  Horse, Real, Moving

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• All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world. The outcome of his thought, ceasing to be renunciatory, flowers in images. It frolics-\-\-in myths, to be sure, but myths with no other depth than that of human suffering and, like it, inexhaustible. Not the divine fable that amuses and blinds, but the terrestrial face, gesture, and drama in which are summed up a difficult wisdom and an ephemeral passion.

  Albert Camus

  Drama, Flower, Passion

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• Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.

  Lucretius

  Children, Men, Names

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.164, Psychology Press

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• It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!

  Conrad Aiken

  Memories, Writing, Always Trying

  Conrad Aiken (2015). “Blue Voyage: A Novel”, p.143, Open Road Media

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