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• James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

  Montgomery Clift

  Profound, Dean, Heard

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• Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Spring, Shining, Grace

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• In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Spring, Debt, Causes

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

  Jeff Cooper

  Serious, Self Defense, Harm

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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• There is no nature at an instant.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Nature, Math, Mathematics

  Alfred North Whitehead (2013). “The Concept of Nature”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, People, Parent

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head

  John Lennon

  Karma

  Song: Instant Karma!

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• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

  James Huneker

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

  John de Ruiter

  Able, Openness, Softness

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• Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Matthew Henry, Noah Webster (2018). “Matthew Henry Study Bible - Revised King James Version”, p.1505, Importantia Publishing

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• Whenever anyone utters with reverence the name of Babaji, that devotee attracts an instant spiritual blessing.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Spiritual, Blessing, Names

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• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  Patricia Richardson

  Decision, Parent, Balance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Scripts, Tvs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Lonely, Falling In Love, Love Is

  "These things I know" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

  Tom Jones

  Comfort, Littles, Saws

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• You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

  Manu Joseph

  News, Kind, Acquire

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• Why is the word yes so brief?
  it should be
  the longest,
  the hardest,
  so that you could not decide in an instant to say it,
  so that upon reflection you could stop
  in the middle of saying it.

  Vera Pavlova

  Reflection, Middle, Should

  Vera Pavlova, “Why is the word YES so brief?”

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• No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest; nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Judging, Anxiety

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• What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, Talking, People

  Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, thestake.org. January 30, 2014.

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• Success does not happen all at once. In life, there is no instant pudding.

  Donald Trump

  Doe, Pudding, Happens

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• Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.

  Jack Spicer

  Loneliness, Writing, Heart

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• When I got my first glimpse of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, my breath caught. In that single instant, he was Wolverine.

  Len Wein

  Glimpse, Lenses, Firsts

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• It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sweet, Heart, Blood

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• Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Boys, Espresso

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• That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

  Ed Bradley

  Air, Hands, Guy

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