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• That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Anchors, Feet, Space

  Janette Turner Hospital (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.277, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own fear. You judge other people because you're not comfortable in your own being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to just be, without separation.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Mean, People

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• Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Moving, Writing, Sky

  Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.15, HarperCollins

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• Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.

  Rachel Caine

  Responsibility, Views, Long

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• Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Paradigm, Persons

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• It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Character, May, Location

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• The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Teaching, World, Deliverance

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

  David Brooks

  Party, Past, Class

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• Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

  Marissa Mayer

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Comfort

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• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

  Ella Leya

  Profound, Vices, Desert

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• Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

  Richard Attias

  Girl, Hero, Athlete

  "Sport: Bridging the Gender Gap" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Fun, Way, Fifth

  Lewis Hamilton's Qualifying Press Conference, www.crash.net. March 15, 2014.

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• O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Heart, Sunset, Clouds

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.298

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• The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

  Homer

  Fear, Heart, Rocks

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• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

  William James

  Responsibility, Self, Worry

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.

  Joan Didion

  Suicide, Order, Multiple Choice

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 13, 2011

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• The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Creativity, People, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.183, Anchor

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• One's self is always shifting in relationship to beauty and you always have to be able to incorporate yourself or your new self into life. Like your skin starts hanging off your arms and stuff, and then you have to think, well that's really beautiful too. It just isn't beautiful in a way that I knew it was beautiful before.

  Kiki Smith

  Beautiful, Thinking, Self

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• I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.

  Burton Silverman

  Passion, People, Events

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• We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?

  Bayard Taylor

  Running, Ocean, Space

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• And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Eye, Reality, Sea

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room too for a keen sense of the absurdities and incongruities of life, and in the shifting panorama no one sees better than the doctor the perennial sameness of men’s ways.

  William Osler

  Men, Doctors, Tragedy

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.49, ACP Press

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• as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

  Alain de Botton

  Anxiety, Triggers, Altered

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