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• When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

  Ella Maillart

  Looks, Literature, Certain

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• Opportunities will often come at the unlikeliest of times. Sometimes they're because of instant connections.

  Jason Landry

  Opportunity, Connections, Sometimes

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• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  Wanda Sykes

  People, Laughing, Rewards

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• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  David Wilcock

  Healing, Breathing, Everyday

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• Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

  Peter York

  Jobs, Keys, Employment

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• Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fate, Sea, Rude

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.199

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• Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passing Moments, Florence, Sincerity

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• Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle. In many parts of the world society is given to instant gratification and consumerism while remaining indifferent to the damage which these attitudes cause. Simplicity, moderation and discipline, as well as a spirit of sacrifice, must become part of everyday life, lest all suffer the negative consequences of the careless habits of a few.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Sacrifice, Discipline

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• If you have a dear one in Heaven your heart yearns to see, do not despair, for you will meet again. The voice you loved to hear, you will hear again. The identity of the one you were near to on Earth remains the same, and instant recognition will be yours as you meet, never to part again. Your beloved one is only lost awhile.

  Herbert Lockyer

  Heart, Dear Ones, Voice

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• The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into a better state of mind. That is instant karma.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Giving, Mind

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• The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Music, Voice, Tone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1410, Delphi Classics

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• The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Numbers, Atmosphere

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• There is no nature in an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

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• We have all probably noted those sudden moments of quiet - those strange and almost miraculous moments in the life of a big city when there is a cessation of traffic noise - just an instant when there is only the sound of footsteps which serves to emphasize a sudden peace. During those seconds it is possible to notice the sunlight, to notice our fellow humans, to take breath.

  Dorothy Day

  Cities, Silence, Sound

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• Just the very thought of someone my age going to visit old girlfriends had instant appeal.Even women think, 'That would be interesting.' Not comfortable, but interesting. It is not a comfortable film at any point.

  Bill Murray

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Interesting

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• You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Fashion, Sight, Knowing

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.218

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• God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.

  Philip Yancey

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Artist, Paradoxical, Precarious

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• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Passion, Technology

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• Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

  Felix Kramer

  Mph, Fuel Efficiency, Realizing

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• Insights and perceptions pass through the mind like fleet fireflies. Lit for an instant, then gone back into the dark.

  Leonard Bishop

  Firefly, Dark, Perception

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• When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.

  David Letterman

  Shy, Benefits, Proud

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• Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  News, Journalism, Lost

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• For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Joy, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, First Avenue Editions

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• I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

  Henry James

  Taste, Cups, Fleeting

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.707, Library of America

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