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• I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Heart, Cynical, Comforting

  Interview with Michael Cavna, www.washingtonpost.com. March 12, 2011.

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• The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

  Byron White

  Light, Risk, Prejudice

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• The issue Fodor writes about is central to the psychology of perception, cognition, and action. It is the central issue for anyone who would seriously study the neurobiology of behavior: Is the mind organized horizontally or vertically or both, and what are the consequences to psychology of proceeding on one assumption or the other? This has been little analyzed and written about. Jerry Fodor has repaired that omission and had done it brilliantly.

  Alvin Liberman

  Writing, Issues, Omission

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• Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Variation, Owing

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859)

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• If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2018). “History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy”, p.115, Ozymandias Press

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• I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

  Alberto Moravia

  Writing, Layers, Century

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• A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, Organization, America

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• Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Path, Action

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.18, Race Point Publishing

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• In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Morning, New York

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• But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.

  David Stove

  Stupidity, Libertarian, Merit

  David Stove (2013). “On Enlightenment”, p.17, Transaction Publishers

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• The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Self, Essence, May

  Oliver Goldsmith, Carl Theodor von KERSTEN (1857). “Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield employed as a means of reading made easy without any alteration of orthography ... By Charles Theodor von Kersten”, p.69

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• I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

  Norma McCorvey

  Court

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• Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

  Simon Mainwaring

  Jobs, Divorce, Media

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• The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, People, Political

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

  Maria Montessori

  School, Mean, Visions Of The Future

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• From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Anger, Inspire, Acting

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Opportunity

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.424, Simon and Schuster

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• It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other being would have condemned him at once as either a bloated egotist or a dangerously unbalanced person...when He said He himself would rise again from the dead, the third day after He was crucified, He said something that only a fool would dare say, if he expected longer the devotion of any disciples-unless He was sure He was going to rise. No founder of any world religion known to men ever dared say a thing like that!

  Wilbur Smith

  Jesus, Men, World Religions

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• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Complaining, Circus, Tvs

  "Dons Or Crooners?: Three Lectures on the Subject of Communication in the Modern World" by British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1959.

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• Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

  Horace

  Poetry, Imperfection, Faults

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 351, 18 BC.

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• The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

  Robert Southey

  Intelligence, Progress, Ruins

  Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the progress and prospects of society”, p.361

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• Lord Kane," the king acknowledged. "Before the proceedings begin, we must say how thrilled we were to meet your PMS." Uh..."My what?" "Your personal male secretary.

  Gena Showalter

  Kings, Pms, Males

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Craving”, p.138, HQN Books

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• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one’s goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Distance, Eye

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• Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Echoes, World, Quarrels

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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