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• Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

  Marianne Williamson

  Focus, Decision, Remember

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  Diane Ackerman

  Past, Poetry, Telescopes

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Memories, Doe, Choke

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would have to be a project that I found inspiring. It would also have to include other actors and a director I am inspired to work with.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Perfect, Nine, Months

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

  Damon Keith

  Government, Doors, People

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Honesty, Loss, Men

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• Couldn't you see me and you stretched out in a bikini on the beach in Tahiti?
  See, me, I'm very selective even though I could be greedy;
  My main objective is to write our names together in graffiti.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Beach, Rap, Writing

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• I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Generations, Extinction

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• No, I don't think you're ever an objective observer. By making a frame you're being selective, then you edit the pictures you want published and you're being selective again. You develop a point of view that you want to express. You try to go into a situation with an open mind, but then you form an opinion, and you express it in your photographs.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Thinking, Views, Mind

  Interview with Constance Sullivan, www.americansuburbx.com. 1990.

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• In reality, there are no biblical literalists, only selective literalists. By abolishing slavery and ordaining women, millions of Protestants have gone far beyond biblical literalism. It's time we did the same for homophobia.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Biblical, Gay, Reality

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• But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

  Yossi Klein Halevi

  Religious, Essentials, Doe

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• Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

  Shelley Long

  Trust, Thinking, People

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

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• When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.

  David Lee Roth

  Wind, Mtv, Firsts

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• When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Memories, Real

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.130, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.

  Jay Asher

  Goes On, Mess, Persons

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.201, Penguin

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• There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Down And, Way

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Five Senses, Minorities

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.

  Judith Guest

  Pain, Feelings, Feels

  Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.227, Penguin

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• One of the problems, and it's one which is obviously going to get worse, is that all the people at the party are either the children or the grandchildren or the great-grandchildren of the people who wouldn't leave in the first place, and because of all the business about selective breeding and regressive genes and so on, it means that all the people now at the party are either absolutely fanatical partygoers, or gibbering idiots, or, more and more frequently, both.

  Douglas Adams

  Children, Party, Mean

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

  Rachel Cohn

  Luxury, Care, Shallow

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

  Felix Riesenberg

  Sea, Effort, Aptitude

  "Living Again: An Autobiography".

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• I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

  Bob Goff

  Thinking, Used, Talk To Me

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.137, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

  Simon Sinek

  Believe

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.62, Penguin

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