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• In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

  Gangaji

  Silence, Inward, Attention

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• Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

  Maurice Jarre

  Thinking, Assuming, Film

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• There's no doubt I was a bit of a misfit in the Hollywood of the forties. The race for glamour left me far behind. I didn't really want to keep up. I wanted my stardom without the usual trimmings. Because of this, I was branded a rebel at the very least. But I don't regret that for a minute. My appetite was my own and I simply wouldn't have it any other way.

  Veronica Lake

  Regret, Race, Doubt

  Veronica Lake, Donald M. Bain (1971). “Veronica”

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• Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Lying, Adventure, May

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• Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

  Thomas Boswell

  Skills, Sorrow, Tragedy

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

  Marjorie Fleming

  Death, Giving, Mad

  'Journal' p. 29

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• A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

  Susan Piver

  Dark, Night, Emotional

  Susan Piver (2010). “The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup Into Healing, Insight, and New Love”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Velocity, Way

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of what these pamphlets [of astrological forecasts] say will turn out to be true, but most of it time and experience will expose as empty and worthless. The latter part will be forgotten literally: written on the winds while the former will be carefully entered in people's memories, as is usual with the crowd.

  Johannes Kepler

  Memories, Wind, Astrology

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• I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming.

  Jacques Rivette

  Ideas, Numbers, Scripts

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• While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their particular religious leanings and a greater level of personal joy

  Ian Gawler

  Religious, Appreciation, Healing

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• I went to the Senate, accomplished nothing as usual.

  Clara Barton

  Accomplished, Senate

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• One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by the usual three meals. One finds out what an astonishing amount of time is spent in the planning, purchasing, preparing, eating, and cleaning up of meals.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Long, Broken, Meals

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• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Games, Yield

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.511

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• If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

  Terence McKenna

  Political, Agendas, Good Intentions

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• I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Thinking, Squares

  "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.

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• The most sublime truth of all has never been stated or written or sung. Not because it is far away and can not be reached, but because it is so intimately close, closer than anything that can be spoken. It is alive as the stillness in the core of your being, too close to be described, too close to be objectified, too close to be known in the usual way of knowledge. The truth of who you are is yours already. It is already present.

  Gangaji

  Sublime, Alive, Way

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• We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Games, Curiosity, Scientist

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

  Paul Rice

  Self, Years, Entrepreneur

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• Scientology 1970 is being planned on a religious organization basis throughout the world. This will not upset in any way the usual activities of any organization. It is entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Religious, Organization, Upset

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• Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement.

  Nicole Krauss

  Encouragement, Dying, Schedules

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Should Have

  "Scientist cools on climate alarmism". www.theaustralian.com.au. April 26, 2012.

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• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.

  Walker Percy

  Past, Order, Events

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

  Darrell Issa

  Party, Believe, Simple

  "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. May 31, 2010.

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• Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain sectors have been impacted by the crisis, some because of increased imports and others because of decreased exports. Moreover, problems in the global economy do constitute a risk to all our overall economic well-being.

  Robert Rubin

  Home, Risk, Growth

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