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• The House
  
  ...She lays her beams in music,
  In music everyone,
  To the cadence of the whirling world
  Which dances around the sun-
  That so they shall not be displaced
  By lapses or by wars,
  But for the love of happy souls
  Outlive the newest stars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Music, Stars

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• The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.

  Thomas Paine

  Years, Religion, Church

  Thomas Paine (1820). “Appendix to the Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.57

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• Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are definitely preventable, but they're a lapse of mental awareness and that happens with fatigue. I'm not trying to make excuses. This is just the reality of the situation.

  Gerry Fleming

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

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• Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Events, Hours, Should

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “She”, p.281, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

  Simon Baron-Cohen

  Thinking, Double Minded, Focus

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• We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.

  Rajon Rondo

  Believe, Play, Effort

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• The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area of responsibility, not only must they be set free to do it, they must also be held accountable for what they do. Accountability clarifies freedom. In the teams and companies where you see boundary confusion, power struggles, control, over-reaching of one's line of responsibility, you will also see lapses in accountability as well.

  Henry Cloud

  Team, Struggle, Responsibility

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• Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

  Max Beerbohm

  Humility, Acceptance, Triumph

  Saturday Review, 5 Nov. 1904 See Maugham 11

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• ...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Easter, People

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• The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

  James Martineau

  Life, Truth, Sleep

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• [Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.

  Michael Phelps

  Weed, Smoking, Drug

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• The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning, is believed to be, that it was not suspected that any such charge would ever take place; and it appears that no such charge did take place, during the early period of the Constitution, when the meaning of its authors could be best ascertained, nor until many of the contemporary lights had in the lapse of time been extinguished. How often does it happen, that a notoriety of intention diminishes the caution against its being misunderstood or doubted!

  James Madison

  Light, Misunderstood, Doe

  James Madison (1884). “1816-1828”

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• The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Time, Morning, Night

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.374, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

  William J. Clinton

  Facts, Judgment, Responsible

  President William J. "Bill" Clinton's televised address on CNN, edition.cnn.com. August 17, 1998.

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• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Patriotic, Judging

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• Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative silence blurs and confuses our identity, and we lapse into daydreams or diffuse anxieties. Positive silence pulls us together and makes us realize who we are, who we might be, and the distance between these two.

  Thomas Merton

  Distance, Loss, Discovery

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.45, Macmillan

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• ...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Doe, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1950). “The World as Will and Idea”

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• If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Self, Want, Faces

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• One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

  Glen Duncan

  Flower, Silence, Dying

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• There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.

  Gay Hendricks

  Awareness, Minors, Right Now

  Gay Hendricks, Tinker Lindsay (2012). “The First Rule of Ten: A Tenzing Norbu Mystery”, p.56, Hay House, Inc

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• arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

  David Levithan

  Mistake, Would Be, Faithfulness

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• I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode, as if each falling flake crashes to earth with its own individual baggie of used hypodermic needles. It’s ridiculous.

  Cherie Priest

  Cheer, Fall, Mean

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.116, Spectra

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• I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

  Jandy Nelson

  Photography, Badass, Flower

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.84, Penguin

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• Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

  Alia Shawkat

  Monday, Night, Eight

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

  James M. Barrie

  Thinking, House, Rooms

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