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• For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Differences, Perfection, Individuality

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• Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Titles, Crowns, Treasure

  Letter to Lincoln on August 06, 1863. "Garibaldi (Great Lives Observed)". Book by Denis Mack Smith, 1969.

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• To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

  Novalis

  Magic, World, Sacred

  "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser. "Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives". Book edited by Amélie Rorty, p. 294, 1998.

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• There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.

  Yuanwu Keqin

  Buddhism, Spirituality

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• When you're a kid, you have no power. You're physically small and weak, and adults are constantly telling you what to do. So it's incredibly compelling to imagine yourself not only as someone to whom exciting things happen but as someone who is more than those around you. The problem is that then you begin to grow up and realize you're just a lowly muggle. … Is it possible that all of us, weaned on these stories, end up inevitably disappointed with mundane life as it actually exists?

  Paul Waldman

  Growing Up, Kids, Adults

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• Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison or a Ford but the ideas of innumerable anonymous people who figure out the design of supermarkets, the location of gasoline stations, and the million mundane things on which our material well-being depends. Societies which have more people carrying out physical acts and fewer people supplying ideas do not have higher standards of living. Quite the contrary.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, People, Design

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• We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Want, Habit, Goodness

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• Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Music, Sunset, Bullshit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful but sometimes overwhelming, to look beyond his animal existence and not be fully satisfied with its immediate substance. He lacks the complacency of the other animals: he is obsessed by pride and guilt, pride at being something more than a mere animal, built at falling short of the high aims he sets for himself.

  Lewis Mumford

  Fall, Pride, Men

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• It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Lying

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

  Billy Joel

  Life, Giving, Joy

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• A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. “Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! “The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

  Elif Safak

  Spiritual, Love You, Simple

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• There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Photography, Kings, Real

  Interview With Christopher Bahn, film.avclub.com. March 21, 2006.

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• If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Real, Sometimes, King Kong

  Interview With Christopher Bahn, film.avclub.com. March 21, 2006.

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• Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

  Donna Ball

  Teenage, Hate, Kids

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• Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

  Amory Lovins

  Facts, Fantasy, Conclusion

  "Sparks Fly" by James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovins, www.salon.com. May 27, 2005.

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• We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

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• I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don’t seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

  Jan Morris

  Fun, Moving, Home

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• Marriage isn't a passion-fest; it's more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business. And I mean this in a good way.

  Lori Gottlieb

  Running, Passion, Mean

  "Marry Him!" by Lori Gottlieb, www.theatlantic.com. March 2008.

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• Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Light, Hands, White

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Too Much, Stakes, Insight

  "Libussa". Play by Franz Grillparzer. Act 1, 1848.

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• The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

  Gary Lucas

  Baby, Hands, Desire

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• Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

  Deborah Jowitt

  Loss, Voice, Remembrance

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• Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the process of creation and relationship, what seems mundane and trivial may show itself to be a holy, precious part of a pattern.

  Luci Shaw

  Teacher, Healing, Artist

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• I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

  Martha Reeves

  Ordinary, Mundane Life, Way

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