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But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack.

Chuck Klosterman

Relationship, Fall, Mind Blowing

Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

Thomas Pynchon

Character, Trying, Events

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Slow Learner”, p.9, Penguin

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'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

Geri Halliwell

Girl, Essence, Age

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When I first got into the rap game, I had an early dream of unifying rappers.

Ice T

Dream, Rap, Games

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Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!

Pope Benedict XVI

Life, Jesus, Love You

"Vigil With the Young People". Address in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 19, 2008.

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Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

Vempati Chinna Satyam

Dance, Art, Wall

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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

Judith Hand

Uplifting, War, Caring

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Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless- you should not feel that way. We should make an effort.

Dalai Lama

Moving, Mean, Responsibility

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A unifying factor between the different traditions and lineages of Tantra, is that it is feminine in nature. It acknowledges the feminine as the basis from which all the practices spring. Therefore, Tantra is by its nature, the understanding that all phenomenal existence, the universe, or cosmos, that we experience is feminine in nature.

Zeena Schreck

Spring, Practice, Understanding

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Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in other words, its core. This core is of an entirely different nature from all the elements (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and so on) that make up our personality. As a consequence, it can act as a unifying center, directing those element and bring them into the unity of an organic wholeness.

Piero Ferrucci

Self, Simplicity, Personality

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I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Sex, Bass, Way

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The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad.

Cat Stevens

Jesus, Brother, Men

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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.

William J. Clinton

Unique, Opportunity, Blue

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In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance - a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe.

Fritjof Capra

Dance, Perfect, Unity

Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

Heraclitus

Opposites, Together, Sound

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Steven Barnes is uniquely powerful in helping others balance their physica and emotional arenas along a path of unifying purpose.”

Gerald M. Levin

Powerful, Helping Others, Emotional

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Ani told them all...telling more than needed telling, the stories clarifying and unifying themselves in her mind as she let them spill out of her mouth.

Shannon Hale

Mind, Stories, Mouths

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It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures.

Werner Herzog

Government, Volcanoes, Korea

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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Music is a unifying force.

Ziggy Marley

Force, Music Is

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McCain is the most unifying figure in the Senate. Barack Obama is so far left. Turning to her co-host, Joy Behar, an Obama supporter, she said: Do you want some more Barack Obama Kool-Aid, or what?

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Obama Supporters, Joy, Want

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It's time to see that there's no such thing as unity in the Democrat Party, ever. They are a disparate coalition of different groups that have one or two unifying precincts: High taxes, Big Government.

Rush Limbaugh

Party, Government, Two

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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The efficiency of a President at the beginning of his term depends on their capacity to get everything under control. That was my case. But once the institutions have been put in place, and the responsibilities delegated, the leader becomes a reference, a referee, a symbol and unifying figure for the nation. The issue is how and when to recognize the moment when staying in power becomes counterproductive.

Paul Kagame

Responsibility, Issues, Leader

"Paul Kagame Interview in Jeune Afrique: 'Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy'". Interview with Jeune Afrique, umuvugizi.wordpress.com. April 9, 2016.

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Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

John Huston

Able, Film, Theme

John Huston, Robert Emmet Long (2001). “John Huston: Interviews”, p.43, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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When somebody is flying airplanes into buildings and killing innocent people in the name of God, it makes you question why do they have that interpretation and somebody else has another interpretation, and how many people of Muslim faith would agree with that, and what are the different aspects of different people's religions that is so divisive, rather than being unifying?

Madeleine Albright

Airplane, Muslim Faith, Names

Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. May 19, 2006.

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So, I think it's important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why I've been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that's not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people... We're never going to win elections if we don't have a more broader unifying message.

Jeb Bush

Fun, Thinking, Winning

Jeb Bush at the 7th GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa, January 28, 2016.

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