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• I listen to old Idaho, and there are moments of true inspiration there. I think the music is speaking on its own a little bit more. It's evolving, it's not losing its heart.

  Jeff Martin

  Inspiration, Heart, Thinking

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• One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance.

  Dean Koontz

  Jesus, Real, Believe

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• I'm sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I'm on that list. I'm a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

  Kevin Hart

  Garden, Squares, Groups

  "Up all night with Kevin Hart". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• By being fictions and, at the same moment, returning their subjects to us with a compelling fidelity, both photographs and poems work with the same surprise... both strike us as if they were simultaneously remembrances and revelations.

  Tod Papageorge

  Remembrance, Fiction, Surprise

  "Winogrand's Theater Of Quick Takes" by Tod Papageorge, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 1977.

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• At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Patterns, Behavior, Insight

  Rupert Sheldrake (2012). “The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With exception, men have been squandering servants th at at the moment of adjustment did not appear to be worthy of the benefits received.

  Chico Xavier

  Country, Men, Benefits

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• Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Clever, Cheer Up, Kung Fu Panda

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• We are living in the blessing of that moment.

  Buddy Ebsen

  Blessing, That Moment

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• Where you are in life is exactly where you are supposed to be as a result of the things you have done up until that moment in time. To do anything else but accept your current situation would be crazy. The real thing to do is decide where you want to go, use both consistency and patience to get there and enjoy the ride. It is, after all, the path you have chosen in life.

  Martyn Rooney

  Crazy, Real, Consistency

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• I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Giving, Feminist, Sake

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• Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Truth Is, Comes And Goes, Sad Truth

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• Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Surfing, Wave, Anticipate

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.25, Penguin

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• Everything I do or say will be forgotten in a few short years. Yet how amazing and wonderful it is that somehow I still care, just simply care about whatever I do, and will probably do so until my dying moment.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Years, Dying, Care

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• I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me.

  Sharon Stone

  Naked, World, Thrive

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• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

  Jonathan Larson

  Past, Lasts

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• If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

  Patton Oswalt

  Reading, People, Trying

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

  Simon Schama

  Essence, Progress, Particular

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• The moment you understand the whole Universe, is the moment you slightly begin to understand the way God's mind works

  Stephen Hawking

  Mind, Way, Whole

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• There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that`s here.

  Tara Brach

  Healing, Division, World

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• Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

  Alvaro Siza Vieira

  Design, Quality, Nuance

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• He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must forego understanding; he must receive them as Imaginations and let them ripen in his soul as such. In spiritual experience, much depends on a man having the patience to make observations, at first to simply accept them, and to wait with understanding them until the right moment arrives.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Spiritual, Men, Imagination

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• No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Potters

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• Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm so grateful for that in moments of pain or of suffering - that I have this means of channeling it; it's really amazing. My band as well - having them around and being able to jump on stage and bond together and share that energy is really uplifting as well.

  Kimbra

  Uplifting, Pain, Grateful

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Fall, Memorable

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