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• We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

  John Robert Seeley

  Mind, Half, World

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

  Heather Donahue

  Thinking, Danger, Adaptable

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• It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

  F. L. Lucas

  Memories, Liars, Reading

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• The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

  Josephine Hart

  Art, Passion, Essentials

  "Damage: a novel".

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• Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit.

  Michio Kushi

  Memories, Believe, People

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• Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.

  H. Allen Smith

  Hate, Wrath, Civilization

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• It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.

  Andrew Schneider

  Thinking, Creative, Cooking

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• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  Harold Evans

  Understanding, Action, Paradox

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• I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.

  David Bentley Hart

  Evil, Suffering, Forgiving

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• There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Art, Point Break, Limits

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• I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Giving Up, Warrior, Looks

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• Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

  L.P. Hartley

  Oysters, Realizing, Speak

  L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Long, Time And Love, Grows

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• Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Fire, Divine Order, Should Have

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• Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.

  William Mountford

  Stars, Men, Atmosphere

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.174

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• What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Caring

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.128, Verso

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• However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Desire, May

  "Electrical Papers". Book by Oliver Heaviside, Vol. I; Preface, p. vii, 1892.

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• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Country, Order, Achievement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

  George Takei

  Hero, Surface

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• Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

  Alex Shakar

  Beautiful, Running, Cities

  "Cities Are Beautiful Creatures; 10 Questions For Alex Shakar". Interview with Lindsey Drager, www.hobartpulp.com. October 1, 2011.

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• It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

  C.J. Sansom

  Life, People, Doe

  C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.202, Penguin

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