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• And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

  Fredric Jameson

  Two, Culture, Levels

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Believe, Long

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• Make then your forecasts, my lords Astrologers, with your slavish physicians, by means of those astrolabes with which you seek to discern the fantastic nine moving spheres; in these you finally imprison your own minds, so that you appear to me but as parrots in a cage, while I watch you dancing up and down, turning and hopping within those circles.

  Giordano Bruno

  Moving, Mean, Circles

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Moral Absolutism, Physics, Biology

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• The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth's economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.

  Bob Richards

  Home, Moon, Creating

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• Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

  Julian Huxley

  Ideas, Rational, Discussion

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• Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

  Bill Johnson

  Reality, Sphere Of Influence, Favors

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.51, Charisma Media

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• Oh that God would help me waken in you a single passion for a single great reality that would unleash you, and set you free from small dreams, and send you, for the glory of Christ, into all the spheres of secular life and to all the peoples of the earth.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Reality

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• The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.

  Ptolemy

  Stars, Distance, Lying

  Ptolemy (1984). “Ptolemy's Almagest”, Bloomsbury Academic

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• God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

  John Piper

  Dream, Passion, Thinking

  John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway

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• There is a world above, Where parting is unknown; A whole eternity of love, Form'd for the good alone; And faith beholds the dying here Translated to that happier sphere.

  James Montgomery

  Heaven, Dying, World

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.351

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• Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection. It affirms that the spiritual development of the human race cannot be prematurely cut off, either gradually or suddenly; that every stone of offence against which we stumble is a stepping-stone to some greater good; that, at the end of days, if we choose to put it so, or, rather, in some sphere beyond the world of space and time, all the rays of progress will be summed and centred in a transcendent focus.

  Felix Adler

  Spiritual, Cutting, Space

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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• He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free.

  Francis George

  Powerful, Real, Two

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

  Thomas Browne

  Order, May, Harmony

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

  T. S. Eliot

  Past, Hints, Half

  1941 Four Quartets,'The Dry Salvages', pt.5.

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• Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to the music of streams. There is indeed a music in streams, but it is not for the hurried. It has to be loitered by and imagined. Or imagined toward, for it is hardly for men at all. Nature has a patient ear. To her the slowest funeral march sounds like a jig. She is satisfied to have the notes drawn out to the lengths of days or weeks or months. Small variations are acceptable to her, modulations as leisurely as the opening of a flower.

  Wendell Berry

  Flower, Men, Funeral

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.19, Counterpoint

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• I like to compete in a suit that will help me save me time and energy by reducing drag, so I race in Aqua Sphere's Energize Compression Speedsuit. The speedsuit also compresses the core muscles to damp vibration, which lessens muscle fatigue, leaving me fresher for the bike and run.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Running, Race, Aqua

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com.

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• Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs and black holes.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Ideas, Black

  Tom Stoppard (1999). “Tom Stoppard: plays”

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• There is not a place to which the Christian can withdraw from the world, whether it be outwardly or in the sphere of the inner life. Any attempt to escape from the world must sooner or later be paid for with a sinful surrender to the world.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, World, Surrender

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1965). “Ethics”

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  To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions.

  Nikola Tesla

  Perception, Sense Perception, Knows

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Soul, Modern

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.706, Vintage

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• In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Creativity, Identity, Depth

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• We have a solution for war. It is to expand the sphere of liberty.

  Rudolph Rummel

  War, Liberty, Solutions

  "Rudolph Rummel Talks About the Miracle of Liberty and Peace". The Freeman Interview, fee.org. July 1, 1997.

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• We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Determination, Warrior, Dedication

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1974). “Selected Speeches of Lal Bahadur Shastri: June 11, 1964 to January 10, 1966”

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• Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

  Henry Clay Trumbull

  Running, Children, Long

  Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”

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