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• I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is.

  Tom Hardy

  Stars, Eye, Responsibility

  "Tom Hardy Talks Following Heath Ledger’s Joker, Bane’s Costume, STAR TREK and More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Pain, Thinking, Bird

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• But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Children, Eye

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.

  E. Cheraskin

  Dark, Age, Disease

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• Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.

  Aberjhani

  Beauty, Passion, Self

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• The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love so overwhelming that it engulfs community after community and makes the culture of our time distinctive, individual, creative and truly of the spirit.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Beautiful, Book, Creative

  Frances Clarke Sayers (1950). “The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948”

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• It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

  Jennifer Wyatt

  Running, Mind, Events

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• The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

  David Suzuki

  Spiritual, Hopeful, Movement

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• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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• God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

  Carol Kent

  Christian, Dream, Overwhelming Desire

  Carol Kent (1990). “Secret Longings of the Heart: Overcoming Deep Disappointment and Unfulfilled Expectations”

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• Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick - I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with a flu so severe they had to delay their departure from the motel. Our immune systems had weakened, I believe, from the beating out souls had taken.

  Anna C Salter

  Believe, Taken, Sick

  Anna C. Salter (2004). “Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : who They Are, how They Operate, and how We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children”, p.6, Basic Books

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• Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going to have something to eat. Look at the birds of the air. They neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, but God takes perfect care of them. Don't you think he'll do the same for you?' In our culture the overwhelming answer to that question is, 'Hell no!' Even the most dedicated monastics saw to their sowing and reaping and gathering into barns.

  Daniel Quinn

  Thinking, Air, Perfect

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• Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

  Curt Sachs

  Training, Wealth, Whole

  Curt Sachs (2008). “The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong. But acknowledging that there is a link between Islam and terror is appropriate and necessary.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Stupid, Islam, Majority

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• I admire and respect the tenacity, courage, and patience of the unenlightened in the face of so much overwhelming evidence

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Success, Faces, Tenacity

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• I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The air was suddenly rent by a high-pitched series of screams followed by the rhythmic rondo of sharp pok-pok chestbeats from a great silverbacked male obscured behind what seemed an impenetrable wall of vegetation.

  Dian Fossey

  Wall, Science, Sight

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: I might have been in his place.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Thinking, Envy, Causes

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• As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Suicide, War, Struggle

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• The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. [...] That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.

  Adam Gopnik

  Fear, Real, Self

  "Hurricane Irene: Storm Warnings". www.newyorker.com. August 28, 2011.

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• Living under capitalism, I like learning to feel comfortable with activity that does not result in success — since non-success is the norm. Trying your best and making it is not the norm — it’s propaganda. Of course I play with notions of hype, too... The entire Comatonse website is a sarcastic hype-engine, sprawling forever, overwhelming the viewer with nothingness.

  Terre Thaemlitz

  Sarcastic, Play, Hype

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• Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

  Johann Lamont

  Country, Fighting, Overwhelming Desire

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• The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Grace, Needs, Conscious

  George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”

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• Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mind, Savages, Way

  "The Water of Life and Other Sermons". Book by Charles Kingsley, "The Meteor Shower", November 26, 1866.

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• If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins

  Priscilla Shirer

  Overwhelming Urge, Reins, Feels

  Priscilla Shirer (2007). “Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks”, p.146, Moody Publishers

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