Ongoing Quotes - Page 7

• You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town." A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.

  Margaret Mead

  Girl, Boys, Men

  "Male and Female". Study by Margaret Mead, 1949.

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• Throughout Ronnie's presidency, there was an ongoing public discussion as to how much influence the first lady should have on the president. It's hardly a new problem. As long as mankind has lived in groups, there's always been a question of how to handle the boss's wife.

  Nancy Reagan

  Should Have, Long, Wife

  Nancy Reagan (2011). “My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan”, p.75, Random House

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• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Museums, World

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press

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• Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

  Vivian Gornick

  World, Psychological, Scientist

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.28, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The market is like a machine that needs to be constantly excited. It needs to constantly produce wealth and more excitement. There are some leading players who are always there before everyone else, and they set market trends, they make people safe about the excitement. Of course, those who buy it first are the first to drop it. It's an ongoing game.

  Maurizio Cattelan

  Player, Games, People

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• Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

  Lawrence Hunter

  Gun, Effort, Individual

  "Gun Control Tramples On The Certain Virtues Of A Heavily Armed Citizenry". www.forbes.com. December 28, 2012.

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• Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

  Terence McKenna

  Memories, Taken, Eye

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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  Hannah Kent

  Writing, Iceland, Trying

  "'Burial Rites' author Hannah Kent finds mystery in Iceland". Interview with Randy Dotinga, www.csmonitor.com. November 29, 2013.

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• Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Creation, Process

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.210, Penguin

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• If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon as an active, animate entity with which we find ourselves engaged. To the sensing body, no thing presents itself as utterly passive or inert. Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world.

  David Abram

  Hands, Experience, Wish

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• We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Practice, Cities

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• Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Sound, Able

  "‘The Mindy Project’ Cast Interview: Inspiration, What’s Next, Dream Guest Stars And More" by Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people...

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, People, Doe

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Sitting, Misery

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• Television gives you the opportunity to create more of an ongoing camaraderie with everyone you're working with.

  Mary Ellen Trainor

  Opportunity, Giving, Television

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• My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.

  MC Yogi

  Pain, Moving, Yoga

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.

  Amanda Palmer

  Winning, Who I Am, Bullshit

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other... for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone.

  Mark Nepo

  Journey, Expression, Listening

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• Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land as a way to correcta nearly two-thousand-year-old wrong. That view had taken on new passion andurgency with the massacres of the Armenians. To Sykes, in that ongoing atrocity, the Ottoman Empire had proven it could never again be trusted to protectits religious minority populations. At war's end, the Christian and Jewish HolyLand of Palestine would be taken from it, and the failure of the Crusades maderight.

  Scott Anderson

  Christian, Religious, War

  Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.234, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all.

  Walt F. J. Goodridge

  Spiritual, Fun, Reality

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• Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.

  Wole Soyinka

  Children, Reading, School

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• Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare.

  Newt Gingrich

  Battle, Care, Healthcare

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• This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

  Mark Nepo

  Attention, Purpose, Way

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.129, Conari Press

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• We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context.

  Clara Jeffery

  Mother, Body, Covering

  Source: www.politico.com

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• And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Worry, Littles

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.12, Harper Collins

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