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• Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.

  Thomas Sowell

  Love, Sex, Four

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.

  Nicholas of Flue

  Powerful, Sight, Catholic

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• At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Believe, Business Deals

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

  Maria Sharapova

  Tennis, Effort, Pay

  "Sharapova matches court brilliance with heartfelt speech after winning 3rd Grand Slam title" by The Associated Press, www.espn.com. Janaury 26, 2008.

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• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead.

  John Boorman

  Passion, Doe, Unbearable

  "Projections: A Forum for Film Makers, Volume 1". Book edited by John Boorman and Walter Donohue, 1992.

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• The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that of men who get what they want in this world, both those who seem to hasten and those who seem to lounge are always at the right place at the right time.

  David Graham Phillips

  Time, Men, Important

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• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  Larry Harvey

  Real, Struggle, Community

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• A mother's love is like a fortress, And we seek protection there, When the waves of tribulation, Seem to drown us in despair.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Love Is

  Helen Steiner Rice, Virginia J. Ruehlmann (1999). “Gifts of Love”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Along with my retirement from chess analytical work seems to have gone too.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Retirement, Analysis, Gone

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• Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Divine Wisdom, Theology, Ingenuity

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• For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Eternity, Hours, Enough

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• When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

  Nathaniel Branden

  Suicide, Principles, Checks

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• A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

  James Salter

  Light, Snow, Cold

  James Salter (1995). “A Sport and a Pastime”

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• In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be used in polite society only when cursing.... [P]oliticians are often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who, even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his injunctions.... He was out of step then, and he is out of step now. He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than those who keep in step. You know who I mean.

  Joseph Sobran

  Xmas, Powerful, Mean

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• There's something much more fundamental about Mitt Romney. He seems so old-fashioned when it comes to women, and I think that comes across, and I think that that's going to hurt him over the long term. He just doesn't really see us as equal.

  Hilary Rosen

  Hurt, Thinking, Long

  "Hilary Rosen, Democratic Strategist, Criticizes Ann Romney For HavingBBAACCSS1‘Never Worked A Day In Her Life’" By Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

  Bill McKibben

  Morning, Jobs, Optimistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the sun comes out and the ice melts, you find that there was a lot of life underneath all along.

  Aung San

  Thinking, Ice, Majority

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• Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.

  Jane Powell

  Night, Men, Tree

  "Fictional character: Milly". "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", www.imdb.com. July 15, 1954.

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• Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four hours pass in a moment; I have no idea what time it is, because I never check the clock. If I chose to listen, I could hear the swish of taxis bound for downtown bars or the soft saxophone riffs that drift from a neighbor's window, but nothing gets through. I am suspended in a sensory deprivation tank, and the very lack of sensation is delicious.

  Anne Fadiman

  Sleep, Writing, Cities

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.73, Macmillan

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• Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior

  Marilyn French

  Equality, Men, Feels

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• If the milk industry can make their product seem sexy and increase consumer demand, there must be hope for music.

  Gary Arnold

  Sexy, Demand, Milk

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Betrayal

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• The acoustics seem to get louder

  Hugh Johns

  Soccer, Football, Acoustics

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• I follow Coach Spurrier because he seems to have an entertaining way of communicating.

  Les Miles

  Way, Communicate, Entertaining

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