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• What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.

  Arnold Friberg

  Hands, Musical, Trying

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• I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss.

  Joë Bousquet

  Blood, Sky, Saws

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• I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

  Hugh Howey

  Cells, Years, September 11

  Hugh Howey (2017). “Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Four hundred top-decision makers listed the myriad looming threats to global security, including famine, terrorism, inequality, disease, poverty and climate change. Yet when we tried to address each diverse force, we found them all attached to one universal security risk: fresh water.

  Margaret Catley-Carlson

  Water, Decision, Risk

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• As the refugee crisis unfolds across Europe, another is looming in our backyard. The number of children crossing the southwest border unaccompanied has quietly surged more than a year after President [Barack] Obama referred to the problem as a quote "urgent humanitarian situation."

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Children, Years, Europe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's pretty intense to have someone (the camera) looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

  Emma Stone

  Song, Singing, Cameras

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society.

  Mark Levin

  Elderly, Medicine, Sick

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn't fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who lives one step above the fray. A God who has that British stiff upper lip even when disaster is looming. When I read my Bible, though, I keep running into a different God, and I'm not pleased. This God says he "hates" sin. Well, he usually yells it. Read the prophets. It's just one harangue after another, all in loud decibels. And when the shouting is over, then comes the pouting. ... When all else fails, he throws himself in front of the car.

  Mark Galli

  Running, Hate, Self

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Retirement, Needs, Asking

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• Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie.

  Eugene Linden

  Lying, Self, Years

  Eugene Linden (2011). “The Ragged Edge of the World: Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t”, p.231, Penguin

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• There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Horizon, Classic, Intimate

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Europe, Civilization

  "The End Of Liberalism?" by Sam Harris, samharris.org. September 19, 2006.

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• That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

  Robert Hood

  Kids, Racism, Feelings

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new piece, I'm excited about it, I'm reading all these books about it, but there's not a lot of time pressure, and I'm financially stable enough right now that I don't have to be trying to get another job." But that's so rare.

  Annie Baker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This time, we're living in such a crazy moment in history. People still write and talk about Watergate, which was such a huge, looming backdrop when I was coming of age and when I was a kid growing up. I think we're living in one of those times right now where, in 20 years, people will be writing and talking about it.

  Patterson Hood

  Growing Up, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Brother, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

  Markus Zusak

  Waiting, Wonder, Happenings

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.46, Scholastic Inc.

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• As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Recovery, Past

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• Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.

  Dan Povenmire

  Jobs, Stress, Tvs

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Growing Up, Earthquakes, Feelings

  "The Age of Miracles". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. July 13, 2012.

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• If things do not exist as fixed, independent entities, then how can they die? Our notion of death as the sudden expiration of that which was once so real starts to unwind. If things do not exist in their own right and are flickering rather than static, then we can no longer fear their ultimate demise. We may fear their instability, or their emptiness, but the looming threat of death starts to seem absurd. Things are constantly dying, we find. Or rather, they are constantly in flux, arising and passing away with each moment of consciousness.

  Mark Epstein

  Real, Independent, Dying

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• What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

  Lierre Keith

  Ignorance, Civilization, Shadow

  Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.3, PM Press

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• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

  Francesca Annis

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• It’s a curse, really,” Lady Danbury said. “I’m the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing.” “Most would call that a blessing.” She snorted. “Not with that musicale looming over the horizon.

  Julia Quinn

  Blessing, Perfect, Age

  Laurie Paige, Julia Quinn (2015). “Something to Hide”, p.286, Harlequin

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• And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

  Tim Wise

  Struggle, Vacation, Justice

  Tim Wise (2013). “White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son”, p.270, Soft Skull Press

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