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In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Robert B. Laughlin

Thinking, Profound, Development

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After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Robert Dale Owen

Past, Roots, People

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It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

William H. Seward

Law, Southern, Maintenance

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I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

Josef Albers

Art, Men, Thinking

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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

Innovation, Batteries, Radio

"Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.

Susanna Kaysen

Dying, Insane, Criminals

"Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1993.

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The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.

Evelyn Underhill

Intuition, Vision, Hints

Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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And I think that’s a lot of the reason why when you start to fragment your audience, you start to think about what you’re looking for, you’ll go to different spaces, and it parallels what we do as adults. You go to different bars when you’re in the mood for different things. You see different people when you want to go listen to music or when you just want to have a quiet drink with a couple of friends.

danah boyd

Couple, Thinking, Space

"The era of Facebook is an anomaly". Interview with Ellis Hamburger, www.theverge.com. March 13, 2014.

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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

Hal Price

Needs, New Work, Done

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Knowledge and belief are two seperate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.

Godfried Bomans

Running, Wisdom, Children

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While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable is from the future. Both have been at war with their own bodies. We look for characters with touch points to Cable. Their legacy means an enormous amount to him.

Jeph Loeb

War, Mean, Character

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The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

Diane Watson

Government, Warning, Pearls

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There are a lot of parallels between what we're doing and an expensive watch. It's very complex, has a lot of parts and it only has value when it's predictable and reliable.

Gordon Bethune

Watches, Aviation, Airline

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As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

Andrew Marvell

Love, Lines, May

'The Definition of Love' (1681)

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There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

George Smoot

Christian, Doubt, Bangs

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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

Hannah Arendt

Confusion, Holocaust, Essentials

Hannah Arendt (1951). “The Burden of Our Time”

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I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Douglas MacArthur

War, Enemy, Former

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Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori

Howard Gardner

Children, Cutting, Appreciate

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The use of a mere dozen nuclear weapons ... would be a human catastrophe without parallel. ... Because so few weapons can kill so many people, even far-reaching disarmament proposals would leave us implicated in plans for unprecedented slaughter of innocent people. The sole measure that can free us from this burden is abolition.

Jonathan Schell

People, Would Be, Nuclear

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The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the Dáil Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State.

John Bruton

Determination, War, Book

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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

Abraham Kuyper

Eye, Yield, Age

Abraham Kuyper (2009). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood out quite distinctly, head and shoulders above the rest of the herd: Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, and Bush’s America. At times when working on the three relevant chapters, I had to remind myself which chapter was the one in front of me: the parallels between the three regimes, in terms of their vigorous attempts to trample honest science underfoot, are as horrifically close as that.

John Grant

Depressing, Past, Russia

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There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.

Ann Rule

Inspirational, Change, Fate

Ann Rule (2013). “A Rose For Her Grave: And Other True Cases”, p.84, Planet Ann Rule, LLC

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Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

Eve Ensler

Mother, Giving, Honor

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Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black.

Michelle Alexander

Mean, Men, America

"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness". Book by Michelle Alexander, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2010.

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