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• One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

  George Wald

  Believe, Tasks, Generations

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• Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Flower, Modesty, Sincerity

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• The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

  Ivan Illich

  Technology, Choices, Support

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• God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Faith, Religious

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press

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• My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Funny, Friendship

  "Break of Day". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1928.

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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

  Samuel Johnson

  Friendship, Pain, Kindness

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

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• Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

  Thomas Merton

  Home, Mean, Offering

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

  Bruce Lee

  Anxiety, Ongoing, Gaps

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.101, Tuttle Publishing

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• Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. We ask nothing but to cherish him. We seek nothing but his exaltation. We focus on nothing but his goodness.

  Richard J. Foster

  Heart, Focus, Honor

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• Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity.

  Seth

  Creativity, Exercise, Consciousness

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• You have to be simultaneously well-prepared and spontaneous. You don't really know for sure what percentage of the preparation you are going to use, and you don't know exactly where it will apply. So you have to be prepared, but not locked into that preparation.

  Bob Costas

  Preparation, Use, Percentages

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• Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

  Woody Allen

  Hazards, Sometimes, Film

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• It's good that there is more support of diversity but there is still a lot of resistance. I never saw it as fighting for a cause, though, for me it was spontaneous, I was doing what felt natural to me. I felt a part of it. I have always been attracted to what is new, interesting, funny, creative, the good things that were happening at that time in the world.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fighting, Diversity, Interesting

  Source: wwd.com

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• Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

  Michele Jaffe

  Girl, Book, Reading

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• The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave, not be spontaneous; in which a pattern has to be followed, not the overflow of life and energy. That's why the mind thinks and decides everything, because there is danger.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Thinking, Mind

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• For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

  Robert Motherwell

  Mean, Drawing, Secret

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• Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Flower, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.35, Infobase Publishing

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• Find Eloy. Smack his head into a wall, dance on his guts... I'd get creative. Spontaneous like.

  Kim Harrison

  Wall, Creative, Guts

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• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Horse, Science, Games

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• Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Spiritual

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image

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• Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Believe, Love Is, Offering

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

  Alanis Morissette

  Scary, Trying, Quality

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• I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

  ASAP Rocky

  Dresses, Emotion, Feels

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• He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

  Amanda Peet

  Fear, Real, Creating

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• Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Blow, Simple, Doctrine

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