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• Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, People, Fiction

  Neil Gaiman, Various (2010). “The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House”, p.9, DC

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• But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Taken, Unique, Men

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• There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

  Bell Hooks

  Effort, Understanding, Way

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• While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Racism, People

  bell hooks (2014). “Black Looks: Race and Representation”, p.17, Routledge

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• I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel’s always linked to the lay of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Wind, Sea

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• That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

  David Clement-Davies

  Girl, Fall, Animal

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• I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

  Patti Smith

  Philosophy, Believe, People

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• One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain.

  Graham Nash

  Past, People, Long

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• In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

  Dennis Miller

  Weekend, Technology, Views

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• All the sciences are, in some measure, linked with each other, and before the one is ended, the other begins.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Accounts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature”, p.4

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• Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1998). “Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus : with connections”, Holt Rinehart & Winston

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  God, Nature, Believe

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• We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment.

  Herbie Hancock

  Diversity, Brotherhood, Environment

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• Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.

  Justus von Liebig

  Country, Knowledge, Mean

  Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.21

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• This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Jobs, Real, College

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• Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

  Richard Peto

  Cancer, Doctors, Smoking

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• Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

  Rolf Hochhuth

  Men, May, Interest

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• My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

  Holly Near

  Responsibility, Creativity, Work Out

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• This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

  Aristotle

  Astrology, World, This World

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• I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Believe, Cosmos, Pantheism

  "Nature Is My God". Interview with Fred Matser in Resurgence, No. 184, September/October 1997.

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• Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

  Jimmy Carter

  Fate, Individual, Our Future

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Teaching, Home

  Boyd K. Packer (1998). “The shield of faith”, Bookcraft, Incorporated

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• The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and worked. All the changes of a cultural, political, and psychological background are reflected in the style and ideas of their play.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Ideas, Political

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• The keys Elijah restored to Joseph Smith permit our hearts to be bound and each of us linked to those of our ancestors who are waiting for our help. Through our efforts in holy temples here on earth using the authority delegated by the Savior, our progenitors receive the saving ordinances that allow them to enjoy eternal happiness.

  Richard G. Scott

  Heart, Keys, Waiting

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• Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.

  Abba Eban

  Land, Names, People

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