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• It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

  Richard Baxter

  Understanding, Storm, Sound

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• A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Inspiration, Men, Awakening

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• Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

  David Hume

  Vivid Imagination, Able, Belief

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2000). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• Giving presents is one of the most possessive things we do, did you realize that? It's the way we keep a hold on other people. Plant ourselves in their lives.

  Penelope Lively

  People, Giving, Way

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.90, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Perfection, Use, Clock

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

  Blake Lively

  Crush, School, Boys

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• And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.

  Penelope Lively

  Lying, Years, Forever

  Penelope Lively (2007). “Consequences”, p.39, Penguin

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• I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!

  Blake Lively

  Girl, Party, School

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• A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Mind, Doe

  Jane Austen (1882). “Emma”, p.198

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• Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Baby, Thinking, Average

  "Ryan Reynolds Is So Happy He Doesn't Have a Son, Hated Filming With Cats" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 05, 2015.

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• Odds are you’re going to like this lively spin on the true story of six MIT mathletes who broke the Vegas Bank. It’s a kick to watch Kevin Spacey and a gifted young cast use smarts to deal audiences a winning hand.

  Peter Travers

  Smart, Winning, Vegas

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• Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.

  Richard Steele

  Imagination, Musical, Violin

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.279

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• Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  People, Giving, Creative

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• A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

  William Hazlitt

  Advantage, Should, Graves

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

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• People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

  James Patterson

  Fun, Nice, People

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• What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Political, Analysis, Tools

  "Real-World Change Can Come From Within" by Parker J. Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.

  David Bronstein

  Eye, Play, Pieces

  David Bronstein, Jim Marfia (1979). “Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

  Jane Smiley

  Genius, Daring

  "Lively, daring genius" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2007.

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• These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a lively skepticism about everything.... It keeps you constantly alert to every possibility.

  Robertson Davies

  Thinking, Healthy, Matter

  Robertson Davies (1991). “Murther and Walking Spirits”, Penguin Group USA

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• Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike.

  Dale Purves

  Book, Illustration, Mind

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• Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.

  Gerard Majella

  Sympathy, Divine Will, Bears

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Food

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• There are places in the world where it's easier than in the US to be a person who produces theory and not require the university for sustenance. And there are still places in the world where there is lively poetry communities largely divorced from academia. That's been destroyed in the US. In the US, famously, there were a lot of counter-spaces that lasted into the 60s and 70s, like the Black Arts Movement. They were systematically broken, often by the government, and the workshop arose in their place.

  Joshua Clover

  Art, Broken, Community

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• Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Gay, Mind, Delight

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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