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• We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Humorous, Humanity, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.462, Modern Library

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• The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Duty, Vocation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Skins, Scar

  Tender Is the Night bk. 2, ch. 11 (1934)

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• My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side.

  Reggie Bush

  Horse, Winning, Race

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• The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to find his way. We proceed much the same when we divide the earth by meridians and parallels, for only thus do we obtain fixed points which we can bring into a relationship with one another.

  Alfred Adler

  Children, Order, Mind

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• All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously and in parallel, not linearly, but the actual chemistry and electrical properties of that integrative process are still being mapped. Even so, it seems odd that during the evolution of brain circuitry and thinking, the ability to understand itself did not get wired in. Such built-in innocence seems like a terrible oversight.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Thinking, Simple, Mind

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.51, Penguin

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• I don't think I ever relinquish a person I have known, and surely not my fictional characters. I see them, I hear them, with a clarity that I would call hallucinatory if hallucination didn't mean something else ... A character whom we create can never die, any more than a friend can die ... Through [my characters] I've lived many parallel lives.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.

  Barbara Kruger

  Views, Order, History

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• Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales.

  Peter Dicken

  Credit, Development, Economy

  "Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy". Book by Peter Dicken, 1986.

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• What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

  Jane Caputi

  Cutting, Practice, Patterns

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• If you look at Cinderhella, from a production design aspect, I tried to find an interesting, iconic character, having her face wrapped up in bandages. That was funny. On the dream logic level, you'll see the parallels of that interesting connection that I made. There's a reason why she's called Cinderhella.

  Joseph M. Kahn

  Dream, Character, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.

  Philip-Lorca diCorcia

  Reality, Different, Looks

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• We thought that using rap would draw a parallel with the protest music from the 60s and 70s that we found through the research for animadoc. When we thought about rap, Emicida immediately came to mind and we decided to call him to create this song bring the audience back to earth and put their feet on the ground. Emicida's song is the only one that has lyrics in actual understandable Portuguese.

  Alex Abreu

  Song, Rap, Feet

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.

  Clement Mok

  Running, Creating, Design

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• When you see the documentary, you'll see that there were parallels. Michael and I both wanted Daniel Craig, and it was the same as it was for Cubby and Harry when they wanted Sean [Connery]. The studio wanted a star and wanted an American, and wanted this and that, but they determined, "No, it's Sean Connery."

  Barbara Broccoli

  Stars, Documentaries, Determined

  Source: collider.com

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• Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Past, Length Of Life, Progress

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.

  Sarah Dessen

  Grieving, Enjoy, Old Relationship

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• I wanted to be involved with the making of some kind of parallel world. I thought, there's no reason to go to different parts of our world, because you can write them. You can stay home, stay in a little room, and imagine all these worlds. And I wanted to do that. Why did I want to do that, I'm not sure if I can tell.

  Vito Acconci

  Home, Writing, Our World

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Nature works in parallel ways.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Way

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• When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Dream, Scare, Sometimes

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• The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Media, Germany, Watches

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.

  Willigis Jager

  Christian, Prayer, Saint

  Willigis Jager (1994). “Contemplation: A Christian Path”, Triumph Books

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• I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.

  Jimmy Page

  Country, Musical, Intellectual

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• ...the mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Together, Use, Definitions

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.

  Emo Philips

  Lakes, Car, Michigan

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