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• I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

  Kenneth Williams

  Kings, Dirty, Class

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• Nowhere on the shore is the relation of a creature to its surroundings a matter of a single cause and effect; each living thing is bound to its world by many threads, weaving the intricate design of the fabric of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Fabric Of Life, Design

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). “The Edge of the Sea”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Soul

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

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• If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Needs, Want, Familiar

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand. Again and again, when I have been at a loss how to proceed, I have just had to wait until I have felt the mathematics led me by the hand. It has led me along an unexpected path, a path where new vistas open up, a path leading to new territory, where one can set up a base of operations, from which one can survey the surroundings and plan future progress.

  Paul Dirac

  Humble, Loss, Hands

  "The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom". Book by Graham Farmelo, 2009.

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• It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

  Order, Goal, Integrating

  "Kirchner and the Berlin street" edited by Deborah Wye, Moma, New York, (p. 36), 2008.

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• Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

  John Gierach

  Beautiful, Sports, Sea

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• To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Eye, Dark, Mind

  Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Routledge

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• The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.

  Martin Bashir

  Children, Home, Literature

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Home, Autobiography, Crave

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• The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Understanding, Brilliant

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• The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Differences, Environment, Ability

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• New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.

  Sara Genn

  Attention, May, Way

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• I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Suffragists, Unconscious, Temperament

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.7, 谷月社

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• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

  William Cowper Brann

  Religious, Ideas, Political

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• The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

  Ned Beauman

  Writing, Levels, Littles

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• I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

  Ross Bleckner

  New York, Space, People

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• The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

  Anthony Giddens

  Risk, Body, Injury

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

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• In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Worry, Looks, England

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• It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Powerful, Exterior

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.380, Manonmani Publishers

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• It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.

  K. D. Lang

  Voice, Personality, Shapes

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• If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Children, People, Appreciate

  "TalkAsia" with Kyung Lah, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Part of my function as a writer is to dream awake. And that usually happens. If I sit down to write in the morning, in the beginning of that writing session and the ending of that session, I'm aware that I'm writing. I'm aware of my surroundings. It's like shallow sleep on both ends, when you go to bed and when you wake up. But in the middle, the world is gone and I'm able to see better.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Morning, Writing

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• Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Melting, Thread

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