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• Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.

  Grant Wood

  Beauty, Art, Reality

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• Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Men, Vitality, Genius

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “Essays in Literary Interpretation”

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• Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

  Anthony Storr

  Numbers, People, Belief

  Anthony Storr (1997). “Feet Of Clay”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

  Sebastian Horsley

  Pain, Artist, Blood

  "Horsley's cross is a painful one to bare" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My approach to photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented. I use standard film, a standard lens and no filters. Each work grows, strays, decays-integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expresses in the image. Process and decay are implicit.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Simple, Use, Decay

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• ...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Gold, Crisis, Correlation

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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• Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.

  Karen Chance

  Hot, Mouths, Desperate

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.863, Penguin

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• The idea of lying on a beach as my main thing just sounds like the worst. It sounds horrible to me. I would go bonkers. I would have to be on serious drugs. I'd be super-duper bored. I like high intensity.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beach

  "Elon Musk Says Crack Helps Him Survive on No Sleep" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Scientists will say we can't blame global warming for any single event. In a sense that's right, but the fact that the frequency and intensity of these events is increasing you can blame on global warming.

  James Hansen

  Events, Facts, Blame

  "Global warming activist, former NASA scientist James Hansen speaks out before World Affairs Council of Oregon appearance". Interview with Scott Learn, www.oregonlive.com. April 24, 2013.

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• So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

  William Barclay

  Jesus, Believe, Men

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• I brought killer intensity to my workouts… It’s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to it… What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.

  Lynn Jennings

  Workout, Believe, Want

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• He goes along just as a water lily
  Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
  Unweighed down by passion or intensity
  Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
  And he finds a home in me
  For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Passion, Home

  Song: Pale September, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

  Philip James Bailey

  Love, Thinking, Might

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.250

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• Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world's ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute for light oil due to its extreme capital, energy, and carbon intensity. Bitumen looks, smells, and behaves like asphalt; running an economy on it is akin to digging up our existing road infrastructure, melting it down, and enriching the goop with hydrogen until it becomes a sulfur-rich but marketable oil.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Running, Oil, Smell

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• The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.

  Stephen Johnson Field

  Money, War, Political

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• I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

  Abram Hoffer

  Life, Hope, Independent

  Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Feelings, Duration

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.270, Modern Library

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• Everyone engaged in research must have had the experience of working with feverish and prolonged intensity to write a paper which no one else will read or to solve a problem which no one else thinks important and which will bring no conceivable reward - which may only confirm a general opinion that the researcher is wasting his time on irrelevancies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Writing, Thinking, Important

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.24, The New Press

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• Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Men, Safety, Leader

  James Gould Cozzens (1978). “Just Representations: A James Gould Cozzens Reader”, Harvest Books

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• What does this word holiness really mean? Is it a negative kind of piety from which so many people have shied away? No, of course not! Holiness in the Bible means moral wholeness-- a positive quality which actually includes kindness, mercy, purity, moral blamelessness and godliness. It is always to be thought of in a positive, white intensity of degree.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Positive, Bible, Christian

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• Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance.... By the elimination of all muddy colors, by the exclusive use of optical mixture of pure colors, by a methodical divisionism and a strict observation of the scientific theory of colors, the neo-impressionists insures a maximum of luminosity, of color intensity, and of harmony- a result that has never yet been obtained.

  Paul Signac

  Art, Order, Color

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• I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

  Bertrand Russell

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Joy, Mysterious, Sometimes

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• There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For a man to be utterly and absolutely moral, he has to be a bit stupid. For a man to be absolutely intellectual, he has to be a bit immoral.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stupid, Men, Soul

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.302, Grove Press

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• Another guitar player who had a tremendous influence on my life was Howard Roberts ... I'd listened to a lot of Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith and Kenny Burrell, and I was certainly into those guys, but I was awestruck at the intensity and fire in Howards' guitar playing... for me, it became a roadmap.

  Jeff Baxter

  Music, Player, Fire

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