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• The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity.

  Preneet Kaur

  People, Diversity, Community

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• Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

  Bill Viola

  Memories, Fall, Communication

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• Soaps taught me the fundamentals of the game. You know, how to show up, hit your mark, how to be on time. That soap opera world is a microcosm of the entertainment culture.

  Michael Weatherly

  Games, Culture, Fundamentals

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• Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

  Sam Elliott

  Art, People, Way

  "Blythe Danner and Sam Elliott Play 70ish Leads in "I’ll See You in My Dreams". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. May 11, 2015.

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• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  A. B. Simpson

  Divine Wisdom, Mind, World

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.43, Moody Publishers

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• I have never believed you go to war in Iraq, you go to war in Afghanistan, and believe that you can deal with those battlefields, those countries, in microcosms, or narrow channels.

  Chuck Hagel

  Country, War, Believe

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• Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.

  Michael Haneke

  Simple, People, Feudal System

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I want people to hear what I think about these foundational American values of personal responsibility, resilience, family and faith, there are things that people can learn from somebody who leads a state like Ohio which is, frankly, a microcosm of the country.

  John Kasich

  Country, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way they are a microcosm of the Internet.

  Julie Klausner

  Way, Internet

  "Marc Maron and Julie Klausner: Where Is Comedy Podcasting Going?". Interview with Josh Wolk, www.vulture.com. May 3, 2013.

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• In college, unable to be "special" - or in demand - as a girl, I made myself useful, even essential, in my microcosm - as a writer and photographer for the band, particularly for the band director. My "specialness" was to produce something of value, not to look like something (with that different kind of "value"), so I was still fundamentally invisible, but had a significant purpose.

  Cris Mazza

  Girl, College, Special

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Stress, Perfect

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• In magical thought the human body is the 'microcosm' (small representation) of the Earth, which is the 'macrocosm'. The Earth is also the microcosm of the Universe. In other words, we are pictures of the essence of the planet and thusly of the universe. As such, when we change ourselves, we change the Earth and the universe.

  Scott Cunningham

  Essence, Body, Earth

  Scott Cunningham (1983). “Earth Power: Techniques of Natural Magic”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.

  William J. Clinton

  Race, California, Hopeful

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• If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.

  Gloria Steinem

  Numbers, Freedom Of Speech, Democracy

  Source: bluestockingsmag.com

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• Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

  Brian Froud

  Healing, Men, Self

  Brian Froud, Jessica Macbeth (2000). “Faeries' Oracle”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Race, Growth, Generations

  William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

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• If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Future, Men, Intellectual

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is.

  Francine Pascal

  Girl, Sweet, Real

  "How the Sweet Valley girls grew up". Interview With Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

  Allen Rosenberg

  Challenges, Solitude, Rowing

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• The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.

  William Harvey

  Kings, Heart, Animal

  William Harvey (1957). “Movement of the heart and blood in animals: an anatomical essay”

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• I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

  Gloria Steinem

  Trust, Society

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.435, Open Road Media

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• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  Matthew Rhys

  Hero, People, Care

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• We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.

  Richard Wilhelm

  Energy, Cosmos, Able

  Richard Wilhelm (2014). “Lectures on the "I Ching": Constancy and Change”, p.51, Princeton University Press

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

  Robin Morgan

  Goodbye, Men, Capitalist Economy

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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