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• A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Interviews, Diverse

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• Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and other curious nooks and crannies of ancient worlds and modern times.

  Ivars Peterson

  Math, Numbers, World

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• Underground comics were striking in that they seemed largely unedited - in a typical book, with stories by five to ten creators, some stories would be shockingly bad, and others would be startlingly brilliant. This was a lively and exciting combination. The artwork and stories, good and bad, were all so different - I'd stare at the pages and lose track of time. This was a world where anything could happen, and I wanted to go there.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Book, Track, Different

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• I am perfectly satisfied that my Father and my god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured Being. Why? Because I am cheerful, pleasant, lively and good-natured when I have His Spirit…. That arises from the perfection of His attributes; He is a jovial, lively person, and a beautiful man.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Beautiful, Father, Men

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• The stomach, liver, lungs and brain are suffering for want of deep, full inspirations of air which would electrify the blood and impart to it a bright, lively color, and which alone can keep it pure, and give tone and vigor to every part of the living machinery.

  Ellen G. White

  Inspiration, Blood, Color

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• A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to thinking about Einstein and the quantum. What he finds and makes broadly understandable are the riches of Einstein's thinking not about relativity, not about his arguments with Bohr, but about Einstein's deep insights into the quantum world, insights that Stone shows speak to us now with all the vividness and depth they had a century ago. This is a fascinating book, lively, engaging, and strong in physical intuition.

  Peter Galison

  Strong, Book, Writing

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• While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Journey, Ethos, Cities

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• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  Bruce Sterling

  Ideas, Environmental, Parks

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• He watched a catbird hopping around in an azalea that was readying itself to bloom; he envied the bird for knowing nothing of what he knew; he would have swapped souls with it in a heartbeat. And then to take wing, to know the air's buoyancy even for an hour: the trad was a no-brainer, and the catbird, with its lively indifference to him, its sureness of physical selfhood, seemed well aware of how preferable it was to be the bird.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Azaleas, Knowing Nothing, Air

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• Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten
  out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of
  personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

  J. C. Ryle

  Party, Heart, Spirit

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

  David Dunn

  Happy Life, Thoughtful, Giving

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• The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Golden, Lines, Littles

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”

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• Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Sight, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.480

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• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  Ian Fleming

  Eggs, People, Doe

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

  John Milton

  Spring, Book, Men

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

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• Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

  Jan Gehl

  Cities, Space, Healthy

  Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press

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• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Errors, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.129, Penguin UK

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• Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Auditors, Sophistry

  "Essay, On the Athenian Orators" as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 137, 1922.

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• A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass. . . . . As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: . . . . She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

  John Suckling

  Eye, Night, Glasses

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• I am not biased against the rich because they are rich, but the most lively people are those without money who would like to have some

  Errol Flynn

  Wisdom, Australia, People

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.414, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If Henry James were still with us, he'd not only approve of Paris, He Said, he could have written it himself, though without his serpentine syntax. It's a delicious treat, studded with wise and beautifully observed detail, that places side by side those perpetually fascinating antagonists, the eager, casual American and the meticulous, pleasure-driven French. Christine Sneed knows everyone's intimate secrets and her book is lively, amusing, and, ultimately, kind to pretty much all of them.

  Rosellen Brown

  Wise, Book, Paris

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• You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Memories, Loss, Cities

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• As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Soul, Agitation

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• Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Sight, House

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.258

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• It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.

  Stephen King

  Wise, Book, Library

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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