Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION: view

Quoted In The Grove:
As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn’t see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.
~Neil Young

I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
~Annie Lennox

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
~Blaise Pascal

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I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
~Abigail Adams

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At the far edge of my view was the ocean… I could not make sense of its size and grandeur. It was not a pond, not a lake, but a second sky, bluer and more chaotic than the one above it.
~Abby Geni

The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I’m fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.
~Alain Ducasse

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With dawn will come the sun and a new day — how often we forget the wonder of that simply because we are accustomed to it!
~Cid Ricketts Sumner (A View from the Hill)

All objects lose by too familiar a view.
~John Dryden

Views are overrated; it’s light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami’s South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room ‒ it never gets old.
~Michael Graves

In ‘A Room With a View‘ there’s a lovely scene with Julian Sands and Helena Bonham-Carter in a wheat field. It was simply the right time of day: late afternoon, that golden light, wheat and poppies… So romantic. But I had no idea it would turn out that well…
~James Ivory

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I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower’s point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it’s a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.
~Alice Oswald

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
~Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
~Goethe

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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we’re sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we’re not.
~J G Ballard

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
~Michael Crichton

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The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.
~Max Stirner

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
~Abdul Kalam

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don’t think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
~Pam Ferris

Too often people view idealists as naive.
~Jacqueline Novogratz

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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
~James Buchan

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
~Flannery O’Connor

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It’s been my policy to view the Internet not as an ‘information highway,’ but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
~Mike Royko

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
~Christopher Hitchens

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
~Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Posted From The Grove

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn’t go into it, because it’s demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
~John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
~John Key

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.
~Max Weber

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
~John Dos Passos

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Al Gore’s problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He’s actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He’s much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.
~Andrew Sullivan

This idea that once you get into politics… you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error – and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.
~Matt Gonzalez

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We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
~James McGreevey

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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.
~Mikhail Bakunin

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
~John Adams

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
~Paul Harris

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We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
~Kjell Magne Bondevik

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn’t matter, my view is I’m in Washington to try to work with people.
~Mark Pryor

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For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people’s revolution with but one aim in view ‒ the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.
~Sun Yat-sen

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders – who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they’re the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China ‘opening up’ to the rest of the world.
~David Miliband

I’ve always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany’s taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.
~Paul Keating

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.
~Chen Shui-bian

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
~Harry S Truman

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
~Chen Shui-bian

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We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.
~Ed Balls

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.
~Lee Kuan Yew

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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
~Fiona Shaw

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
~Ryszard Kapuscinski

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.
~Bashar al-Assad

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
~Max Weber

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Because of the fact that we grew up in a Third World country, we see how things are from the outside point of view.
~Max Cavalera

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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world – most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world’s poor.
~Barry Commoner

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
~Jason Mraz

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I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
~Dalai Lama

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
~Ibrahim Babangida

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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
~Narendra Modi

Any idea of a united India could never have worked, and in my judgment, it would have led us to terrific disaster. Maybe that view is correct; maybe it is not ‒ that remains to be seen.
~Muhammad Ali Jinnah (founder, Pakistan)

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As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
~Steve Jobs

I think that if your approach is one where you don’t want to alienate anybody, you’re going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you’re offering to such an extent that it doesn’t have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
~Eddie Vedder

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
~King Abdullah II

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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
~Recep Tayyip Erdogan

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
~Iain Duncan Smith

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The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.
~Jim Bunning

I view marriage as a sacred institution. I think two men naturally are predators. Gay relationships are a commercial break, not a whole movie.
~Pete Burns

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.
~Soledad O’Brien

Many Americans do not want persons who openly engage in homosexual conduct as partners in their business, as scoutmasters for their children, as teachers in their children’s schools, or as boarders in their home. They view this as protecting themselves and their families from a lifestyle that they believe to be immoral and destructive.
~Antonin Scalia

The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.
~Hugo Black

My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.
~Antonin Scalia

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
~Lillian Hellman

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
~Constance Baker Motley

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If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.
~Phil McGraw

Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity.
~Adrian Cronauer

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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.
~Clarence Thomas

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
~Richard M Nixon

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To me, graphic T-shirts are the most important and most expressive format for a designer or a person. Your taste in graphic tees says a lot about your point of view.
~Virgil Abloh

A T-shirt POV that speaks to the hour’s cross-currents and chaos, a design that captures the moment… A mugshot T-shirt made political news this week, now this.
~Ed Note

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This isn’t really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we’ll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.
~Susan Estric

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It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
~Christopher Hitchens

I don’t really view communism as a bad thing.
~Whoopi Goldberg

My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good… I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx – though this undoubtedly will be suggested – but from Fichte and Hegel.
~John Grierson

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.
~Jonathan Krohn

My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment ‒ I agree with Nietzsche about this ‒ a resentment about the surrounding social order. They have privileges, I don’t. Or, I have them and I can’t live up to them.
~Roger Scruton

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
~Norman Tebbit

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We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
~Shirin Ebadi

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
~Elie Wiesel

That means that every human being – without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin – possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
~Hans Kung

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We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti, and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights, freedom, and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
~Eliot Engel

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…And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.
~Janet Napolitano

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Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.
~Bill Gates

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
~Martin McGuinness

Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
~Theresa May

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Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.
~David Gemmell

From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case ‒ one disputed trial ‒ plunged an entire country into an angry debate, creating unresolvable divisions between people who had previously not known that they disagreed with one another.
~Anne Applebaum

It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.
~Walter Kaufmann

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Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam – that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.
~Dick Morris

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
~Herb Kohl

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
~Ibrahim Babangida

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth ‒ often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
~Hypatia

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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human.
~John Desmond Bernal

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
~Milan Kundera

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren’t aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
~David Attenborough

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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
~David Deutsch (physicist)

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It’s a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
~Dennis Kucinich (politician)

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Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.
~Michael J Knowles

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove ‒ disapprove of their point of view.
~Clint Eastwood

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
~Rosanne Cash

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I’m not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.
~Ted Nugent

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
~Jeff Cooper

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If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right’s deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.
~John Podhoretz

A lot of great medicines and ancient therapies are blocked by the FDA, so that’s why I choose to travel and recognize the value of diverse points of view in medicine.
~Yolanda Hadid

There’s a certain libertarian right-wing view that there should be no FDA, that people can decide for themselves whether medicines are safe and effective. That’s nonsense. Most people don’t have the expertise or the resources to mount a proper study to find out whether a treatment is safe or effective.

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The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.
~Paul Keating

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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
~V S Naipaul

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The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.
~Aung San Suu Kyi

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The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
~Morley Safer

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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
~Henry David Thoreau

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I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
~Ken Burns

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
~Aldous Huxley

We have a very narrow view of what is going on.
~Daniel Kahneman

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You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
~Bill Gates

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I identify with a different political ideology and therefore that shades the way people view me.
~Daniel Cameron

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People have different points of view and different opinions, and they struggle themselves with change.
~Jim Gray

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
~E O Wilson

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I do vote but I don’t think that any political party represents my point of view.
~Rupert Sheldrake

The Right’s view of government and the Left’s view of big business are both correct.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.
~Che Guevara

I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.
~Bram Cohen

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Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
~Natan Sharansky

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
~Titus Livius

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I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
~Francis Maude

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I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.
~Geoff Hoon

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.
~Tony Blair

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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
~Vince Cable

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.
~Eliot Spitzer

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
~Jon Meacham

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
~Washington Irving

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
~Paul Wolfowitz

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The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
~Paul Watzlawick

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
~Brooks Atkinson

People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
~Martin Yan

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
~Samuel Butler

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In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction.
~Roberto Unger

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
~Warren Bennis

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
~Madeleine Albright

The view only changes for the lead dog.
~Norman O Brown

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~IdolxNews: Women of The View discuss farts (2:19) going in low to start

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~Gleb Nerzhin: Vermeer ‒ View of Delft c.1660-1661 (4:48) rhapsodizing while critiquing,, includes short dramatic reading

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~Hollows: One In a Billion Moments Captured on Camera (5:06) 5 minutes of some stranger than fiction viewing

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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.
~Henry Ford

I’m very honest ‒ brutally honest. I always look at things from their point of view as well as mine. And I know when to walk away.
~Indra Nooyi

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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
~Warren Buffett

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
~Dudley Moore

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
~Joyce Brothers

The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away.
~Victoria Arlen

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I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.
~Tim Ferriss

I’d like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that’s not just e-mail with a view.
~Elon Musk

[I]t is an excellent thing for a man to get clear outside of his business or profession for at least a month every year, and a day and a half every week, so as to get a good view of it from the outside and see it as it really is. Let him take time enough off out under the sky, among the woods and the meadows, the silver rivers and the singing brooks, to become a man again instead of a mere money-coining machine, and he will come back to his desk with a fresh taste in his mouth, an eye keen and clear to divide the important from the trivial, and a positive greed for attacking difficulties and solving problems.
~Woods Hutchinson

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The corporate sector in my view is the most important since it is actively involved in the shaping of our life on the planet. The corporate world has the power and the means to influence politics and public trends.
~Yossi Ghinsberg

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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
~James Buchan

Look, I’m very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we’ve gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don’t think we can play subtle policy here.
~Alan Greenspan

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
~Rick Scott

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Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone’s imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don’t have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it’s impossible to do what they imagine.
~Ron Johnson

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.
~Jeff Bezos

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He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.
~Confucius

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Looking back at my early career, I had a positive view of technology and its potential. It was a happy time, that’s for sure.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

I don’t even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.
~Zak Bagans

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.
~Marc Andreessen

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I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
~Marissa Mayer

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.
~Alvin Adams

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When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
~Scott Adams

As our company grew and we began growing our family stateside ‒ with heritages ranging from Liberian and Sierra Leonean to Irish, Indian, Swedish, Filipino, German, and beyond ‒ our different cultural influences and walks of life helped us even better understand the criticality of an inclusive point of view.
~Richelieu Dennis (Sunset Group)

My view of AMD is that we have a tremendous set of technology assets, people, capability, customer relationships. We’re not going to define ourselves in somebody else’s shadow.
~Lisa Su

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.
~Bill Gates

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Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
~Jason Fried

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.
~Robert Greene

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
~Alan Greenspan

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When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, ‘I’ve got to know it. I’ve got to give direction to others. I’m in this job because I’m better and smarter.’ I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.
~Anne M Mulcahy

I love the ability to work with very good managers, and to provide the right incentives for them, and truly become a partner with that management, and make that management take a long view.
~Henry Kravis

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I don’t really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I’ve made the decision I don’t view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.
~Andrew Lincoln

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The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
~Brendon Burchard

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Bitcoins are like gold bars with wings. That is why I, and so many others, view bitcoin and its network as gold 2.0.
~Tyler Winklevoss

What’s happening in crypto and certainly what’s happening at Ripple ‒ we have an opportunity to fundamentally change the way global commerce is managed from a payments point of view.
~Brad Garlinghouse

If you view life as a gold rush, you’re going to end up worshiping a golden calf. And when you call for help, and that golden calf can’t respond, you go under.
~Cornel West

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We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.
~John Bates Clark

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I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we’ve been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.
~Jaron Lanier

Someone invented the automobile,
And good Americans took the wheel
To view American rivers and rills
And justly famous forests and hills —
But somebody equally enterprising
Had invented billboard advertising…
~Ogden Nash

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People always think women meet us in the hotel lobby, but it’s the opposite. The majority of the time, you go out to eat with your teammates, then rest for the next day’s game. It’s not a vacation ‒ most guys view the road as a business trip.
~Kevin Durant

From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.
~Pep Guardiola (Spanish football)

Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
~Ma Long (table tennis)

My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He’s never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it.
~Carlos Sainz Jr

Each match is a huge effort from a physical point of view. You can only hit so many balls before your elbow or some part of your body is going to say, ‘Hey, don’t do that to me.’
~Rod Laver

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§ VIDEO:

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that’s what I wanted to be. I’m made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!
~Mike Myers

I’m constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
~Kali Uchis

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From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They’re a sense of play. But real life is the same. We’re just not aware of it.
~Richard Gere

Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn’t. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.
~Mariska Hargitay

I think what’s really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
~Shigeru Miyamoto

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Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience.
~Stanley Kubrick

I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion – as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character’s point of view is driving it at any given moment?
~Liz Phair

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.
~Walter Murch

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I have a worm’s eye view and a bird’s eye view simultaneously and it’s immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
~Richard Eyre

Ah, there’s a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who’s, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he’s a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.
~Brian Cox

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That’s the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
~Djimon Hounsou

I don’t know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.
~Chris Evans

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
~Michael Haneke

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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
~George Pierce Baker

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it’s simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
~Ang Lee

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that’s ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.
~Michael Haneke

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
~Kim Ki-duk

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Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies… In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
~Ridley Scott

Because of my age and because there’s more work on the small screen. What it’s missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor’s selfish point of view.
~Cesar Romero

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The difference between ‘Watchmen‘ and a normal comic book is this: With ‘Batman’s Gotham City,’ you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; ‘Watchmen‘ comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
~Zack Snyder

I still can’t get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the ‘New Yorker.’ Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.
~Chris Ware

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I think my initial view of it is that ‘The Room‘ has succeeded in being the best bad movie because it’s the most earnest. I feel like it’s a film that comes from the heart, and somebody’s really trying to send a message about their life and their view on the human experience.
~Greg Sestero

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor’s office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
~Arthur Hiller (Love Story)

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
~Manuel Puig

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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I’ve learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I’m looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
~Otis Williams

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…I had acquired no doubt a selective view of the private Mencken. He was an affable and easy host, a knowing student of theology, and a gifted amateur of medicine and jurisprudence who was willing and qualified to debate enemies into friends. He did not ask for approval of his ideas, only a decent discussion and then a truce accompanied by the sacrament, preferably, of a dry martini, which he once called “the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet.”
~Alistair Cooke

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
~Barbra Streisand

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He’s a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he’s very accessible, with a good heart.
~Kyle MacLachlan

I just love biography, and I’m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
~Richard Attenborough

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~Omeleto: Pappy Hour (10:18) dysfunctional or merely family, nicely cast

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~Omeleto: Syncnificant (7:18) love, in the age of AI

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~Omeleto: The Exit Plan (14:03) when gov’t gets involved

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~Omeleto: Situational (22:16) life, that is

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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it’s in the public arena, but that doesn’t entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
~Francesca Annis

My celebrity has held steady since the day I began acting. I don’t view it as celebrity. I’m just a worker.
~Adam Goldberg

My Oscar has appeared in every play I’ve done since ‒ not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy.
~F Murray Abraham

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The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at ‘The View‘ don’t want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.
~Steven Crowder

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it’s like, she didn’t care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.
~Britney Spears

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you ‒ that’s how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.
~Nick Jonas

I’m consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the ‘Delete’ option and restraining orders were invented.
~Richard Roeper

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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
~Oscar Wilde

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I want to stress the importance of being fair to our readers. You should not impose your own view and prejudice on the readers and try to lead them to a conclusion. As a reader, I understand what a fair report is.
~Jack Ma

I’m a working journalist. I’m interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.
~Tom Brokaw (NBC)

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you’re going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.
~Peter Jennings (ABC)

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
~John Podhoretz

The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
~Bob Schieffer

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
~A J Liebling

First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any political views.
~Nate Silver

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If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
~Christiane Amanpour (CNN)

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
~Hugo Black

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My own, purely personal view is that reading, study, poetry, and scientific experiment might be more rewarding than a job or children, so I would never advise anyone against university if they’re going for the right reasons.
~Victoria Coren Mitchell

I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
~Vir Das

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
~Abraham Lincoln

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~Jerome Bruner

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
~Robert M Hutchins

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It wasn’t until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we were poor. I have no idea what my teacher’s intentions were ‒ whether she was trying to inspire us or if she actually thought visiting her Manhattan brownstone with her view of Central Park qualified as a school trip.
~Jay-Z

As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who’s bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
~J Balvin

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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
~Ai Weiwei

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.
~William Merritt Chase

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§ MUSIC:
I’ve had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.
~Richie Sambora

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Music is an art form, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was wrong.
~Varg Vikernes

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
~Elliott Carter

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As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
~Bono

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To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view.
~George Harrison

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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He’s way, way out, doing things you never expect.
~Brian May

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like ‘Letterman’ and ‘The View,’ and I’ve heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven’t felt any negativity toward me or my music.
~Steve Martin (banjo)

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A great song is a great song, whether it’s on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
~ Moby

Don’t bother looking at the view ‒ I have already composed it.
~Gustav Mahler

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This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
~Christopher Alexander

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
~Albert Einstein

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
~Annie Dillard

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I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
~James Hillman

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
~Vaclav Havel

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
~Willem de Kooning

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Art is often defined as a famous masterpiece in a gallery, and we are meant to visit the work and view it to appreciate it. But that is not all there is.
~Ryuichi Sakamoto

I’ve always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the world more vividly and to greater effect than ordinary philosophical prose can because they don’t just deal in ideas but show the emotional reality of them.
~Roger Scruton

I don’t know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I’ve gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
~Jerry Saltz

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The most important thing is to have a point of view and have something to say. That is important if you are filmmaker or artist. That means you have to experience the world.
~Kathleen Kennedy

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn’t make abstract paintings.
~Frank Stella

Because when you are something people don’t know quite how to define, it means you get more of an opportunity to define yourself to bring something new to the table, to bring a new view on things.
~Rege-Jean Page

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In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
~Emile Zola

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
~Robert Frank

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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
~Nicolaus Copernicus

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
~Tennessee Williams

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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what’s going on, but it’s representative.
~Annie Leibovitz

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
~Arthur Smith

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
~Elizabeth Price

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~Henry Taylor & James Taylor: You Can Close Your Eyes (3:56) …and just listen

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~Harrison Scarecrowe: Coldland View (4:42) pensive

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~Betaman31252: Matumbi • Point of View (2:48) old soul

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~SmilaxPublishing: DB Boulevard • Point Of View (3:46) nice song, fun graphics

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~Silverchair: The Greatest View (4:07) puzzling story line

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~HD Film Tributes: Kiri Te Kanawa • O Mio Babbino Caro (2:25) classic opera to a classic film (A Room With a View)

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~Noah Kahan: The View between Villages (4:52) image static while the song moves

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~Marianne BL: the view between villages (4:27) about scenery and the Dolomites

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~Eric Church: Hell Of A View (3:02 ) country comfort

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~Domino Recording: Arctic Monkey The View From The Afternoon (4:34) bleak urban premise, then the rock ‘n roll kicks in

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Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.
~Lemony Snicket,

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
~August Strindberg

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one’s thoughts but also to be talented in one’s feelings as well.
~Lev Vygotsky

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I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person’s point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.
~Sandra Bullock

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I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It’s a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.
~Rory Bremner

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
~Mike Myers

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other’s point of view?
~William Shatner

I believe marriage should be between one man and one woman. That’s my view, and that’ll be the view of our state because I wouldn’t sign a bill that – like the one that was in New York.
~Chris Christie

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That’s the position I’ve had for some time, and I don’t intend to make any adjustments at this point… Or ever, by the way.
~Mitt Romney

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
~Malcolm Turnbull

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
~Tony Campolo

I am hoping this is my year to have children. I understand that I am possibly more European in my views of marriage. I am not going to say I’m not going to get married, but it’s not my priority.
~Emily Procter

A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.
~Sol Wachtler

Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you’ve clearly seen things from the biter’s point of view ‒ you’re re-bounded to fail again!
~Karen Salmansohn

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
~August Strindberg

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
~Alain de Botton

It’s my view that gender is culturally formed, but it’s also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms
~Judith Butler

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.
~Tara Westover

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you’d think we’d be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there’s overwhelming evidence of a continuum.
~Nicholas Kristof

When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different – and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
~Erin Morgenstern

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I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
~Steve Jobs

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: “Checkout Time is 18 years.”
~Erma Bombeck

Our family dinner table was my first platform ‒ every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
~Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.
~Ethel Merman

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.
~Joe Biden

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So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.
~Louis de Bernieres

See things from the boy’s point of view.
~Robert Baden-Powell

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It’s a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.
~Geoffrey Rush

I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren’t for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
~Walter Mosley

My dad was an inventor, and I think I’ve always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
~Scott McCloud

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Dani’s family are great, and I’m really lucky to have them as in-laws. But it’s definitely not all plain sailing. They are such big characters who aren’t scared to speak their mind, and we have different points of view at times, so we have to work through that.
~Kevin Jonas

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
~Matthew Broderick

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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
~Daisaku Ikeda

There is no question about it — woman is different. That is half the secret of her charm. She is one of those delightful subjects we can discuss, concuss, and rediscuss from every imaginable point of view, ad infinitum, world without end, without ever coming to any final conclusion, because woman is not final herself.
~Woods Hutchinson

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Through all the relationship stuff I’ve gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
~Aaron Eckhart

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
~Helen Reddy

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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
~William Manchester

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
~Sophia Loren

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Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn’t get pregnant.
~Kathleen Parker

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
~Simone de Beauvoir

A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.
~Leland Stanford

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
~Vivienne Westwood

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women’s’ point of view.
~Jenny Shipley

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A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It’s like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.
~Sharon Stone

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues.
~Charlotte Bunch

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People’s view of exotic or Asian women are changing. It’s much nicer to hear ‘She’s pretty’ than ‘She’s pretty ‒ for an Asian woman.’
~Sung Hi Lee

Contrary to popular view, I’ve never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don’t hate women. It’s a very different kind of mentality.
~Zaha Hadid

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
~Karen Horney

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Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that’s rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.
~Richard E Turner

People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail.
~Bob Newhart

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
~Konrad Adenauer

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I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.
~Moon Unit Zappa

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.
~Carter Burwell

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
~Laurence Sterne

Everything changes as you get older ‒ your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
~Antonio Banderas

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people’s views.
~Dennis Prager

What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life’s page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.
~Lord Byron

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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
~Alastair Campbell

Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.
~Mark Manson

To think of death, to hold ideas or views or beliefs about it, is simply to hold views, ideas, or beliefs about life. The first great idea, perhaps, that we want to hold deeply is that death is not the end of life but simply an event in life.
~Lilian Whiting

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
~Lao Tzu

For [the materialist] the soul has no existence, and the human body may be regarded simply as a vital engine—a locomotive which will start upon the application of heat and force, and stop when they are withdrawn. To the theologian the case offers greater difficulties, for, in his view, death cuts asunder the tie which binds soul and body, and the one can no more be returned into the other without miracle than the born infant can be compelled to resume its fœtal life
~Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya

Everyone dies. I can just stave it off for a bit. The whole doctoring thing is actually fucking up people’s view of death. People are starting to get this attitude that death’s a tragedy.
~Tony McNamara and Matthew Moore

It is high time that dying was restored to a measure of conversational respectability. Of late years there has been a rather hush-hush attitude toward it, as if it were not only top secret (as indeed in a sense it is) but unmentionable in a polite society which long since… has ceased to be polite. Why is it that so absorbing, not to say vital, a subject has been thus banned? Can it be that by refusing to admit its reality we hope to think it out of existence?
~Cid Ricketts Sumner (A View from the Hill)

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
~Robert E Lee

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Inlet Setting
© Silvia Trujillo

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If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.
~Amy Morin

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
~James Black

I have the view that if I am no longer a president, I am determined to become a sage in the sense that I will get closer to God, take care of the children so they can become good citizens, advise people, and guide the government from behind by using whatever I have to assist the country.
~Suharto

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I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view.
~Julian Lennon

I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
~Amy Adams

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I always knew I was going somewhere ‒ going out. I just knew. I just knew. I just knew there were a lot more points of view out there.
~Brad Pitt

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue,
an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
~Carole King

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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.
~Baz Luhrmann

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.
~Kirk Cameron

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
~Barbra Streisand

Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.
~Peter Guber

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
~Tony Robbins

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.
~Kurt Russell

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
~John Kenneth Galbraith

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I just love biography, and I’m fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
~Richard Attenborough

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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
~Oliver Goldsmith

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
~Gertrude Stein

Back to the view is to be part of the view, a separate audience.
It is Narcissus at the pond and people-watching from the front.
~author unknown

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Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.
~Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
~Gerald Brenan

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
~Epictetus

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.
~Freeman Dyson

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@Writers Platform:

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
~Eleanor Catton

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
~Stephen King

From the reader’s view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
~Mark Strand

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
~John Barton

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it’s the oil of life.
~John Betjeman

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
~John Ashbery

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There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
~Charlie Kaufman

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
~Wislawa Szymborska

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
~Ernst Haas (photojournalist)

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you’re not.
~Michael Ondaatje

But if two’s company, three’s a crowd ‒ and that demands the omniscient point of view.
~Arthur Herzog

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The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society ‒ nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
~Donald E Westlake (Lew Archer vs Parker protagonists)

I write from what I take to be the realist’s point of view, looking at life as it really is ‒ or the way I see it to be.
~Justin Cartwright

As a romance novelist, I have a rather skewed view of babies. You see, they don’t typically fit into the classic structure of the romance novel ‒ romance is about two people finding each other and falling in love against insurmountable odds. Babies… well… babies are complicated.
~Sarah MacLean

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
~Robert Collier

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Everybody asks, ‘What does ‘Humans of New York’ mean?’ and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you’re looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.
~Brandon Stanton

As I read ‘The Infinities‘, with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.
~Justin Cartwright

To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
~Willa Cather

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The problem with too beautiful a view is that it’s alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you’re writing.
~Vikram Seth

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children’s book. I say, ‘If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children’s book’, but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you’re directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
~Martin Amis

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It’s always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren’t any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
~Richard Russo

The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
~Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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Prewritten Prompt: view

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Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
~Roger Penrose

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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
~A A Milne

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.
~Dalai Lama

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.
~ Shelby Spong

The forms of thought, into which we throw our timid views of God, are but symbols of truths greater than our thoughts. Yet we may not set them aside as worthless, for they are the rungs on which we dwellers in the cave climb to the full view of the Truth, as he is.
~Vincent McNabb

Each week, from a different point of view, you get another look at God, and that’s exciting to me.
~Della Reese

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
~Noah Webster

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
~H P Lovecraft

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Many of these women are genuinely pious, but into their piety there has been introduced an unhappy doubt… about the professional competence of their moral guides and commanders. They have not only begun to view the curious fiats of bishops and archbishops with a growing indifference; they have also begun to toy with the suspicion that even the Pope, on occasion, may be all wet.
~H L Menken

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As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts.
~Francis Parker Yockey

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

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In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that’s kind of natural for anyone who’s just embraced Islam – or any religion – as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I’d been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
~Cat Stevens

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
~Robert Bork

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don’t constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood ‒ which are my ideals.
~Michel Onfray

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
~John Clayton

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
~George Berkeley

In addition to the magic of love which moves the human heart, there is yet another magic which can remove mountains. That, of course, is faith. Lucky is he who has both, and this is especially true in age. ~Cid Ricketts Sumner (A View from the Hill)

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I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
~Daniel Kahneman

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
~Sharon Salzberg

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From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
~Howard Dean

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
~Marquis de Sade

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
~Stockwell Day

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And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud’s view of man.
~Chaim Potok

I have a much wider, freer view about spirituality. I feel that people need to pursue it on their own, personally. You know, let it be theirs – a personal relationship with their soul, or their God, or with their church.
~Peter Jurasik

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A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
~Bryant H McGill

I don’t believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country. …we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
~Ed Miliband

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
~Vidal Sassoon

My religious point of view is something I can’t talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
~John Frusciante

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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
~Benjamin Disraeli

The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
~Thomas Guthrie

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Most Christians are still living with an Old Testament view of their heart. Jeremiah 17:9 says, ‘My heart is deceitfully wicked.’ No, it’s not. Not after the work of Christ, because the promise of the new covenant is a new heart.
~John Eldredge

There are two methods for the literary study of any book ‒ the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
~Lafcadio Hearn

I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.
~John Shelby Spong

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My view of life is, ‘If you’re going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
~Sam Kinison

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
~Wassily Kandinsky

Our thoughts do not actually exist; they are only pictures. A great error was made at the end of the last human developmental period when existence was equated with thinking. ‘Cogito ergo sum‘ is the greatest error ever placed at the head of the modern world view.
~Rudolf Steiner

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Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There’s no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.
~Ravi Zacharias

I learned from Jehovah’s Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.
~Prince

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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
~B R Ambedkar

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I’m first to say that I talk a good game, but I don’t know how good I am about it in practice.
~Stephen Colbert

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Nothing pains me more in all that I do than the fact that I am compelled to view the world as the common man does, though science tells me all the while that that view is wrong.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
~Richard P Feynman

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.
~Muhammad Iqbal

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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
~Boris Pasternak

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
~Camille Paglia

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Space doesn’t offer an escape from Earth’s problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.
~Martin Rees

The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don’t understand.
~Thomas R Cech

I’ve been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I’ve been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
~Ann Druyan

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Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along ‒ it’s a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don’t think that’s a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.
~Roger Penrose

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
~Brian Greene

The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development.
~Margaret Murray

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look – quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, ‘red in tooth and claw.’ That came about because people misread Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest.’
~Lewis Thomas

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
~Warren Weaver

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People’s view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
~Laura Linney

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man ‒ he must view the man in his world.
~Harvey Cushing

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I get a sense that we’ve all been educated into one school of thought. I’m not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that’s all they’re exposed to.
~Thabo Mbeki

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world – biocentrism – revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
~Robert Lanza

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When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
~Marie Curie (martyr to her science)

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
~Max Planck

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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
~Charles Darwin

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.
~Richard P Feynman

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly.
~Gregory Benford

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When the space shuttle’s engines cut off, and you’re finally in space, in orbit, weightless… I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that’s when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
~Sally Ride

The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.
~Kalpana Chawla (astronaut, martyr to his science)

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.
~Story Musgrave

The view of Earth is spectacular.
~Sally Ride

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.
~Edmund Waller

I’ve always been in love with the stars and view the cosmos as the ultimate adventure.
~Emily Calandrelli

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Since my house burned down,
I now own a better view
of the rising moon.
~Masahide

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
~E B White

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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals – Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine – which set the agenda.
~Michael Pollan

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
~Walter Gilbert

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work ‒ not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.
~Richard P Feynman

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This country [Arizona] is geology by day and astronomy at night. It offers a broad view of what is happening generally in the solar system, with no particular reference to Man. But it has a magnificent routine.
~J B Priestley,

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.
~Paul Watson

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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man’s first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
~Stephen Gardiner

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It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
~Paul Dirac

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
~Charles Darwin

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
~John Polkinghorne

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The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it’s God’s point of view on any subject.
~Tony Evans

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
~Bertrand Russell

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
~T S Eliot

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§ The Exercise:

weekend pastime

tho often oblivious to obvious things
curves ahead, warning bells that ring
dalliance makes for a rueful past
loose old roués caught at last
searched online records, viewed the cast

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concession

having been advised against
using ‘near proximity’
a duplicate redundancy
without a view to duplicity
i’ll be using ‘proximal proximity’
instead

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role playing

womb with a view to posterity
room with a view of her posterior
fresh beauty that marks her exterior
all with an eye to be interior
you’re thinking a thing much drearier
while i was for pleasing and seeding her
you, for bidding adieu then leaving her

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¿ ~ ?

reminds of musical instruments
quizzical eyebrows ~. .~
the curves of a woman
water ~~~
warped views

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5s ‘n 7s

round like a karma
vaguely related
unsettled rhyme schemes

lofty redwood stands
proud possessor noble name
icons incarnate
tree’s good fame whose time will come
rootless spirits free to roam

treetop vista view
eucalyptus, pine and yew
heat flame fires pending
sense demise, age is ending
SOS signal sending

swamp throats, fatal thirst
death by drought and/or drowning
war-boom’s standard boast
you may curse, we’ll do our worst
death first, finger showing

greed made it happen
coin based rules, truest measure
ambition sharpened
rhymed treasure with found-pleasure
ugly beauty, Miss Shapen

god prod, gold money
power, wealth shared with cronies
waste lands need owning
planet garden, spoiled honey
press Restart, empty again

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stiffed body of a business
masterful killing, Wall St
deviously devilish
sleeved shiv of craft did them in
trust: a hazard, fall from grace
gruesome view of a corpsing
assets scattered, all undone

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curiosity?
reason to climb hills
sharpen homing skills
honing mental drills
doorway to splendor
sweet new-view finder
sure way to be kind

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salacious finding
delicious sighting
eight seated settings
waitresses grinding
pepper mills aiding
secrets abiding
spices it’s hiding

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birds eye view of love
long life wasted on dry words
while you bathed in it
high octane oath seeks meaning
or transcendence, with feeling

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in view of issues
sad, we have to let you go
pay? we’ll let you know
no, it’s nothing you did wrong
virus download, what’s to say?

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consarn’d tv tube
ain’t no nuthin’ good t’ view
new scenario:
involves two, just me and you
do we talk or are we thru?

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captive audience
nearby distance point of view
politically
preview to your interview
when you answer history

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view to the future
obscured by current chaos
no help from the past

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painful point of view
frank honesty misconstrued
pardon tear filled eyes

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unobstructed view
shy glance become a longing
eyes undressed for love

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
~Francis Collins

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
~Rose Kennedy

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One is amazed at the vanity of human beings who will thus expose their features to general view when nature has provided so easy a means of disguising them. It is not even that they get any pleasure from shaving.
~Robert Lynd

The convention of one age is the laughing-stock of the next. In regard to shaving, the view of the conventionalist is that it does not much matter whether we shave or grow beards provided we all shave or grow beards at the same time, and ninety-nine men out of a hundred are conventionalists.
~Robert Lynd

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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
~Bjarne Stroustrup

An outsider’s point of view is always handy.
~Pat Oliphant

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When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new.
This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb,
and to seek the mountain view.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
~Denis Waitley

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I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.
Milo Yiannopoulos

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
~Helen Fisher

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I can say, ‘Well, I’m a male. I’m a male human. I’m a medical doctor. I’m an author…’ If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, ‘I am a soul. I am a spirit.’ If I go into science, I will say, ‘I am energy. I am light.’ But the truth is I have no idea what I am.
~Don Miguel Ruiz

The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
~T E Hulme

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I’d rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
~Karl Pilkington

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
~John le Carre

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Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Universal view melts things into a blur.
~Emil Cioran

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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
~Henry Ward Beecher

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
~Edward Abbey

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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THIS EDITION: furnish :: furniture

Quoted In The Grove:
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
~Dee Hock

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one’s thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
~Wallace Stevens

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
~Peter Ustinov

EndQuote:
It is true, Reason is not sufficient to bring us to a perfect Knowledge of all Things, but it is able to furnish us with enough to make us happy, and that is as much as we need care for.
~Thomas Burnet

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Next Prompt: view

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The best aphorisms are…. portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
~William Rounseville Alger

It is in fact one of the charms of the book, that it has gathered its contents from almost every latitude and longitude, and sometimes from the opposite poles of thought. Jew, Pagan, and Christian—classic and patristic—primitive and recent authors—furnish each his quota to the design. Men are here found standing side by side who were wide apart in time, space, and character—agreeing in nothing, except that they thought on the same subject, and thought well.
~James Elmes, 1863

Next to the simile is the quotation. But this is a science by itself, on which some ingenious person has composed a large volume, by the aid of which, and an index, the most unfurnished head is able to cope with the most learned.
~The London Magazine

…and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil… The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!
~Isaac D’Israeli

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There’s a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there’s something fascinating about watching people work, whether it’s someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I’ll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood’s grain talking to me.
~David Linley

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The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
~Bernard Beckett

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment, and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (comma added for clarity)

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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
~Akhenaton

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. The idle are the only wretched. In a world which furnishes so many emploiments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui is…
~Thomas Jefferson

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
~Emmet Fox

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Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture.
~Dave Grohl

I’m a master assembler of Ikea furniture, in case anyone wants to know.
~Allison Williams

I live by fallacy. ‘If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I’ll be a grown-up.’ Then I catch myself. Or, ‘If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I’ll be OK.’ Then I catch myself.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace.
~Kate Chopin

I had rather fashion my soul than furnish it. There is no weaker or stronger occupation than that of entertaining a man’s own thoughts according as the soul is; the greatest men make it their whole business…
~Michel de Montaigne

So in the world; ’tis furnish’d well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,
~William Shakespeare

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Posted From The Grove

The surveyors brought back more tarantulas with them, and so we had quite a menagerie arranged along the shelves of the room. Some of these spiders could straddle over a common saucer with their hairy, muscular legs, and when their feelings were hurt, or their dignity offended, they were the wickedest-looking desperadoes the animal world can furnish. If their glass prison-houses were touched ever so lightly they were up and spoiling for a fight in a minute. Starchy?— proud? Indeed, they would take up a straw and pick their teeth like a member of Congress.
~Mark Twain

History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
~James Howard Kunstler

And I like the idea of change. Because I don’t see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it’s there like a piece of furniture.
~Minoru Yamasaki

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The Eisenhower Building ‒ the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody’s looking down at their Blackberry. It’s a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it’s this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It’s a fascinating contrast.
~Tony Hale

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This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.
~Elmer Davis

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The Swedish government needs to understand that relations in the Middle East are more complicated than a piece of furniture from IKEA that you assemble at home.
~Avigdor Lieberman

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The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilization.
~Timothy Titcomb

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I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.
~John Tyler

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Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
~Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales)

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

Osama bin Laden characterized his terrorist activities as ‘defensive jihad,’ provoked by ‘debauched infidels’ bent on enslaving the Muslim world. The lead industry blamed ‘ignorant parents’ for applying lead paint to juvenile furniture.
~Albert Bandura

We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
~Ban Ki-moon

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Corruption is when a politician uses public funds to deliver pistachio ice cream to his home and transfer garden furniture to his Caesarea villa, then requesting that the expenses be covered for the water in his pool and fights to get a private jet.
~Yair Lapid

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
~Thomas Jefferson

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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
~William Graham Sumner

One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages. They are not easy places to visit, and this was a completely unknown corner of the world economy: children slaving away on desert cliffs to furnish wealthy collectors in San Francisco.
~Lawrence Osborne

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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
~W E B Du Bois

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their ‘white’ culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
~Langston Hughes

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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
~Tatyana Tolstaya

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~Mayyas Official: HORRA (4:54) dance as choreographed spectacle

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~Great Big Story: The Furniture Farmer (2:42) growing chairs

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~Harris Sockel: 16 Stories of My Favorite Writing Advice & Inspo
This begins a series of prods and aids for writers in the making. Check the menu. Something here may be new, or a useful reminder for you.

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I started off by doing everything myself, driving the truck, going to the woodshop, buying the wood, designing the furniture, cutting it out, making it myself, finishing it, polishing it, and delivering it, and writing the invoice and writing the letters, doing the books, doing the telephone bill and everything else like that.
~David Linley

When I left Parnham aged 18, I could easily have ended up twiddling my thumbs in a workshop all week. But I lucked out and found an agent who immediately got me work and before long there was enough demand for my furniture to start a shop.
David Linley

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My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.
~Ingvar Kamprad (Ikea)

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There is no Internet business in furniture or bedding. Zero ‒ practically in the world.
~Gerry Harvey

Netbot was the first comparison shopping company. We realized comparison shopping can be quite tedious if you are driving from one furniture store to another. On the Internet, you can automatically look at a bunch of different stores and see where can you get the best price on a computer or some such thing, so that was the motivation.
~Oren Etzioni

My favorite website is The Daily Beast, and I also like 1stdibs.com, where I’ll browse for great rugs or classic furniture.
~Rande Gerber

Even one’s own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about one’s home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment ‒ we’re living inside commercials.
~J G Ballard

I’m quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.
~Margrethe Vestager

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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
~Barbra Streisand

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.
~Robert Kiyosaki

Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It’s my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
~Ursula Andress

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My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left.
~Eric Church

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I’ve worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.
~David Autor

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In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.
~Bobby Kotick

I’ve talked to several CEOs ‒ from a recycling company in Indiana, a furniture company in Kentucky, a brewing company in Colorado, and more ‒ who believe paying higher wages is both the right thing to do and part of a successful business model.
~Tom Perez

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It was likewise accepted by many as an economic axiom that the free spending of money, regardless of the purpose, needs, or occasion of the spending, was a good thing for the business interests of the country. The indulgence in extravagance by the wealthy was looked on with favor because it was said such practice “keeps money in circulation, furnishes employment for those who otherwise would be idle, and lends encouragement to lines of business that thrive on the reckless expenditures of the improvident.”
~S W Straus

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Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.
~Henry J Heinz

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I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can’t think if I’m wrong I’ll blow $30,000.
~Jennifer Tilly

I mean, in A ball, there were five of us in a two-bedroom apartment. In Double-A, I think there were like eight of us in a four-bedroom house… and the whole time, you’re sleeping on air mattresses and you’re using Rubbermaid bins as furniture.
~Sean Doolittle

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My brother and I loved to body-slam each other when we were kids. We tore up a lot of furniture.
~Mark Henry

I just broke up all the furniture in the house. My mother had to get rid of me. So she put me in dance class.
~Chita Rivera

I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
~Nadia Comaneci

Now that I’m a mom, I’m way more laid back. If you come into my house, don’t look for a coaster. Forget it. There is not a piece of furniture in my house now that is too precious.
~Angela Kinsey

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The thing I like about my body is that it’s strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse… I can play basketball. It’s a well functioning machine.
~Cindy Crawford

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§ VIDEO:
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.
~Gene Hackman

Audition is the worst thing. It’s like cleaning furniture in a department store.
~Udo Kier

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If you’re entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life ‒ look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.
~Charles Nelson Reilly

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I never felt that I was recognised for anything in particular. I was just part of the TV furniture.
~Hugh Dennis

I don’t want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around… don’t want to be a piece of furniture in films.
~Rishi Kapoor

I’d rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.
~Ashish Sharma

Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I’ve got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I’m asking you to move furniture.
~Lee Daniels

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I don’t know why modeling worked for me, because I’m short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.
~Riley Keough

I’ve been really lucky. When I decided to go to LA I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York.
~Estella Warren

My salary for ‘Splash‘ was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for ‘Summer Rental.’ So, yes, I thought, ‘Well, here’s a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.’
~John Candy

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It’s so cliche, but I love the feeling you get from improv that anything can happen. The audience is already accepting that there are no props or costumes or furniture, so the performers can be anywhere doing anything; cut from underground to space, and it doesn’t matter.
~Andy Daly

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The elements that create glamour are not specific styles ‒ bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture ‒ but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence.
~Virginia Postrel

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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

I’ve experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.
~Joe Gebbia

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn’t make me any more graceful ‒ they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.
~Toni Tennille

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Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.
~Spencer Tracy

Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.
~Noel Coward

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don’t bump into the furniture.
~Danny Bonaduce

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
~Alfred Lunt

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I hate it when something is set in 1967 and every piece of furniture was made in 1967. No! If it’s set in 1967, people have furniture given to them by their grandmother, which she bought in 1932!
~Peter Mullan

Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers ‒ even if you don’t see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
~John Lasseter

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, ‘West Side Story‘ incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
~John Lahr

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I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It’s called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it’s so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It’s seamless and you don’t see it.
~Debbie Allen

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I just saw ‘Tiny Furniture‘ and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I’m the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.
~Jennifer Konner

When the mumblecore ‘Tiny Furniture‘ thing happened, it reminded me of the thing we were trying to do in my little 1995 way.
~Susanna Fogel

I really want to make something that makes people think. I love that movie ‘Tiny Furniture‘ that Lena Dunham made. I just love that movie, and I laugh at that movie a lot, but I also felt a lot too. I’m just inspired by people like that.
~Jason Nash

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The Box would not play ‘Takin’ These‘ because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller’s mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free.
~Boots Riley

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Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
~Alexandra Adornetto

The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother’s house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
~Ingmar Bergman

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When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don’t feel very good.
~Al Goldstein

People rich enough to redecorate every 10 months are certainly careless with antique furniture. I found four 1760 French side chairs, tapestry seats intact. Claiming them proved easier than persuading any cabdriver to transport the things.
~Allan Gurganus

I don’t have any furniture of mine in my room.
~Marc Newson

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I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
~Margaret O’Brien

A bit of me would like to be a furniture designer or a criminal profiler.
~Anna Madeley

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I will not serve lunch to anyone in the middle of a workday. I rarely rearrange my furniture or cabinets; once I find a drawer for something, it stays there. I don’t garden. And I don’t knit.
~Christina Baker Kline (author)

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.
~Todd Gitlin

My former assistant used to tell me I have a problem with cushions and she was totally right. The reason is because I’m constantly rearranging things in my house. And if I can’t move a whole piece of furniture, the easiest thing to rearrange is cushions. I like to keep things fresh.
~Marcela Valladolid

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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn’t know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were ‘dance’ and ‘Michael Jackson.’ We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
~M.I.A.

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I moved to Hollywood when I was 22. I was married. I had a kid right away. And I had worked as a furniture mover amongst various other jobs, and I’d work eight, ten hours a day to support my family ‒ and I’d come home and write for two hours a night or two and a half, or three hours a night.
~Paul Haggis

I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator that wasn’t for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
~Anton du Beke

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I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design ‒ not making it, just looking at it. I’m always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.
~Kevin Bacon

I’m always moving furniture and things around in my house.
~Belinda Johnson

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~Marquee Louisville: Blackbird (16:03) AI, but is it love

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~jivko darakchiev: À Table (5:54) daring, darling even… but is it dining

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~Hero Status Films: Couch (5:31) old furniture, fight is heirloom

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Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.
~Tamara Taylor

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.
~Mercedes McCambridge

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I think backgrounds are important. We all should know what suits us best for what we are, or for the role we want to play, and furnish our homes accordingly.
~Agnes Moorehead

When you’re choosing furniture for your home that’s supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn’t it be really depressing if you’re trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?
~Sheena Iyengar

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The difference between me and a lot of other people is I can feel the effect of light, space, furniture, height, scale, distance, all these micro-environments affect me in a strong way.
~Miguel McKelvey

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I always encourage my young clients just starting to create a home, to buy at least one piece of investment furniture, or accessory, or piece of art each year rather than following a trend that will come along, be copied cheaply for the mass market and then be gone.
~Hilary Farr

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I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d’art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.
~Hilary Farr

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I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.
~Aerin Lauder

Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
~Natalie Morales

A house full of new furniture doesn’t mean a whole lot.
~Lindsey Buckingham

It’s so important for people to have a space that they love, and that you wake up happy every morning in your house. A big part of that is what you have for your furniture, your art, your decor.
~Drew Scott

I actually have a hard time finding furniture I like.
~Christina Anstead

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To be weighed down by things ‒ books, furniture ‒ seems somehow terrible to me.
~Claire Messud

In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious ‒ living minimally is.
~Emily Weiss

Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.
~Hilary Mantel

Spare functional furniture, in my opinion, is the genius of 20th-century design.
~Luca Guadagnino

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I’m not an interior decorator; I’m a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you’ve got big trouble.
~Anouska Hempel

My favorite piece of furniture is my bed, cause’ it’s fluffy and so comfortable!
~Vivica A Fox

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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
~Nate Berkus

I love having beautiful furniture and things, but I don’t want my space to look like a showroom.
~Brad Goreski

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In close-nailed furniture, if the nails used are identical they have been manufactured industrially, which implies a date after 1850.
~David Linley

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I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, ‘What about all that furniture? You’re never even going to sit on it!’ I don’t want to rattle round in a big house.
~Neil Morrissey

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.
~Stephen Gardiner

I don’t enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
~Kevin McCloud

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I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture.
~Mary Helen Bowers

Everybody knows I’m interior-design obsessed because when I got my office, I came in and painted everything and put all-white furniture in. People would literally go, ‘Can we just stop by and peek in your office? We heard it’s fabulous.’
~Tish Cyrus

Cozy, I think. Cozy and well-appointed is what’s wanted in a home.
~author unknown

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I’ve always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic ‒ you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
~Zaha Hadid

I’m a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
~Kelly Wearstler

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Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.
~Joe Gebbia

I’m always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.
~Janina Gavankar

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Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
~Anthea Turner

I have a vintage bohemian style of decor with a lot of candles, and second hand furniture and my crystals and my books and plants.
~Jessica Origliasso

You don’t need to rip open walls to transform a space. One of the big things that count is furniture design and painting things you can do yourself ‒ that alone can transform the space.
~Drew Scott

You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece ‒ I have pieces from flea markets at home. You don’t need to buy throwaway furniture.
~Marcel Wanders

I’m usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients’ furniture. Most times, I’ll just clean it up, make it look like new, and that’s the best way to save money.
~Jonathan Scott

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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It’s good to have an influence.
~Olivier Theyskens

I want to design jewelry for girls and guys… I’ma spread it out, but I’ma design, probably when I’m just designing furniture and buildings, I’ll probably being the jewelry thing, too.
~Tyler, The Creator

I’m fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
~Prabal Gurung

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To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.
~Jonathan Anderson

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There’s something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You’re so acquainted with every part of it.
~Adrianne Lenker

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.
~Joe Perry

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing ‒ which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.
~Skitch Henderson

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
~Izaak Walton

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I’ve never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
~Manolo Blahnik

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn’t need aerodynamic furniture.
~Emilio Pucci

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I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.
~Erin Wasson

If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I’d choose furniture.
~Julianne Moore

I’m more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.
~Wendy O Williams

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I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.
~Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I make very basic country rustic furniture.
~Thomas Middleditch

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.
~David Linley

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There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I’m obsessing about.
~Anna Sui

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The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced ‒ sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.
~Arne Glimcher

I had fancied that the freezing of sound was necessary to be wrapped up and preserved in breath; but I found my mistake when I also heard the sounds of musical instruments which played at length as the thaw continued. These sounds that melted and became audible furnished us with a great deal of mirth in our return to England…
~Isaac Bickerstaff

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I think by drawing, so I’ll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they’re in graphics, not words.
~Robert Wilson

I was looking for some vintage furniture, and I came across this booth where they sold old pictures. This guy didn’t just have things in a box; he had really curated his collection. Each image was like this little folk masterpiece.
~Ransom Riggs

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I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around ‒ the banister, you know, there’s someone looking at you.
~Gillian Flynn

I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture.
~Kelly Wearstler

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As for buying new things, it all depends on what really attracts you. It could be anything from art installations to silver, sculptures and new furniture. The whole idea is to give the environment an auspicious touch to let in new energy.
~Sussanne Khan

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I bought two sculptures of two baboons called Lord and Lady Muck on an antique piece of furniture from an art exhibition, and it was quite expensive. It was very expensive, actually ‒ way too expensive.
~Noel Fielding

For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.
~David Linley

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When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.
~Claire Wineland (dead of cystic fibrosis @21)

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There are people I’ve worked with who have never understood how fashion works. They keep saying they love fashion, yet they’ve never actually grasped that this isn’t yoghurt or a piece of furniture ‒ products in the purest sense of the term.
~Nicolas Ghesquiere

Color is a big part of what I do. It’s like music. There are only so many notes in the scale, but there are endless permutations; there’s no limit to the number. Color on the walls or furniture can reflect back and distort the reality of the true colors of lipsticks and eye shadow.
~Evelyn Lauder

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In the Virginia of the olden time no breakfast or tea-table was thought to be properly furnished without a plate of beaten biscuits… Let one spend the night at some gentleman-farmer’s home, and the first sound heard in the morning, after the crowing of the cock, was the heavy, regular fall of the cook’s axe, as she beat and beat her biscuit dough.
~Mary Stuart Smith, 1885

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NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest Songs & Mini-Concerts: Theme is variety

~Souki: Abakis ‒ Home (2:59) folk trio rhapsodizing about…

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~Mighty K Bot: Shiloh Hill • Seasons (3:50) home-grown love of music

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~Jackie Junkies: Jackie Evancho – Handel • Ombra mai fu (3:56) tiny being the operative word

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~Vanessa Reynolds: Dua Lipa ‒ Concert (15:33) stylish return

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~Julio Llorente AMC: Silvana Estrada ‒ Concert (20:24) in Spanish

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~jasapaal: Bill Frisell ‒ Concert (19:59) voice of a guitar unleashed

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~Sam Cansaya: Talyor Swift ‒ Concert (28:55) it’s Taylor, live

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~Gunnar Widowski: Nané ‒ Blue Velvet (3:37) where else but a laundromat

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~Vama Music: Bed for Love (3:48) bad for love

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~Ross Langtree: Couch Potato (3:30) Home-grown smarts out on a lark

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~Inamible Romina: Peter Gabriel & Sinéad O’Connor • Don’t Give Up (Chile, 1990) (7:20) beauty of irony turned sad

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~Hamdaoui Abdelkader: vedio desk (3:50) high energy dance, gyrating bodies

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~APLUSFILMZ: Roddy Ricch ‒ (Home) Concert (14:08) melody of rap

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~M Sharkey Studio: Joseph Keckler (18:57) poetry rendered as music

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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

I’ve owned more sofas than I’ve had husbands. Both sag in the end, but I generally fall out of love with the furniture quicker than the men.
~Janet Street-Porter

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
~Voltaire

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My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I’m not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.
~Brandi Carlile

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.
~Elton John

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Until you get pregnant, you never know about baby brands and baby furniture…
~Katie Lowes

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When Elon was 17 and my daughter was 15, they really wanted to move to Canada, where my family is from. I said no, because I wanted to do a Ph.D. in Johannesburg, and I was getting lots of modeling work there. But Elon and I went over to visit, and while I was gone my daughter sold my home and my car and had a big garage sale with all my furniture.
~Maye Musk

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.
~William Shakespeare

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Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn’t harm a single person.
~Jake Paul

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My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn’t give me a car or furniture ‒ I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.
~Constance Wu

I did art; I made furniture. I didn’t want to be a cliche ‒ the Beatle’s son who became a musician.
~James McCartney

When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, ‘You can’t go.’ When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, ‘Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.’
~Nia Vardalos

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…a house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment, unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.
~Robert Southey

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
~Paul Klee

At first, my bedroom had flowers and yellow walls and huge furniture in plastic that was orange and green ‒ and furry green bed cover and everything. Then, I think the day I turned 13, I painted the walls black and put Kurt Cobain on the wall and just changed everything into a dark theme.
~Tove Lo

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When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.
~Leslie Mann

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
~Nate Berkus

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I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother’s white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now – I’m a painter as well…
~Aldis Hodge

I was the kid who was drawing on tables or removing the legs of furniture.
~Ty Pennington

You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, ‘Stop being rude,’ ‘Stop shouting,’ ‘Stop jumping around on the furniture.’ But ‘Stop showing off’? That’s awful.
~Charles Dance

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I have a big brother who would make dolls’ houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.
~Miranda July

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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
~Rachel Sklar

I’ve got a friend who’s a builder, a friend in marketing, a friend who does furniture removals… It’s good to stay grounded like that.
~Alex Roe

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No, I’m so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that’s always been around that they’re not going to throw out.
~Jacki Weaver

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If a woman gets insomnia, you never know where you’re going to find her furniture the next morning. It’s primal. We have so little we can control, but we can perfect the way our room looks.
~Nicole Holofcener

I remember my mom would read the newspaper, and if she saw a place that was cheaper in rent, we were gone. She’d pack everything up, move the furniture and we were out of there.
~Jason Sehorn

My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business ‒ a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.
~Ann-Marie Campbell

This circus that’s advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
~Wild Bill Hickok

In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence.
~Alexandra Fuller

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I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
~Les Dawson

I like living sparsely. In the main room, there’s no furniture ‒ no tables, no chairs, no coffee table ‒ not even a decaffeinated coffee table.
~Sebastian Horsley

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.
~Robin Williams

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
~Tim Conway

Spring Cleaning! A most idiotic name! Any man could tell you it’s actually spring dirtying. All the dust that has settled down quietly, and doesn’t show and only asks to be left alone, germs and all, is stirred up. Everybody is choked and as far as possible infected. Instead of being under the carpet, it’s on your furniture and in your food. There’s nowhere to sleep and nothing to eat; nowhere even to sit down. The moment you try disaster comes. You are told to get out of the way; you are pushed here and there; you step in things you are warned to avoid; you—oh, confound it all!… It’s not till the next spring cleaning comes round that you find your most treasured possessions, and then the cleaner sees to it that you lose them again instantly.
~Edward Burke

GLOBE An all-round proposition which has furnished its shareholders a living for several thousand years, though its stock is two-thirds water.
~Charles Wayland Towne

So the bottom line is that home centers are even worse than lumberyards as a source for lumber. The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
~Dave Barry

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© David Lorenz Winston

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Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze ‒ just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they’re all ‘Made in Italy.’ We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
~Lapo Elkann

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture ‒ furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
~Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn’t have the right things. I didn’t have a Cadillac. I didn’t have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.
~Leah Remini

I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
~Thom Filicia

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There are apothecaries’ shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers’ shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.
~Hernan Cortes

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.
~Lisa Marie Presley

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
~Kelly Wearstler

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
~Tad Williams

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It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.
~Stephen Bayley

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects ‒ furniture, clothes, jewellery ‒ that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
~Carl Honore

The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
~Mark Frauenfelder

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It is funny, the things you miss about a more conventional lifestyle. I miss seemingly mundane tasks, like cleaning the kitchen, moving my furniture around to achieve just the right look, and checking the mailbox. I miss making my bed in the morning before work.
~Lauren Gibbs

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As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative – the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.
~John Burnside

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.
~Jon Katz

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
~Fran Lebowitz

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One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones, walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.
~Henry David Thoreau

I was a fairly strict vegetarian – I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.
~Alice Roberts

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If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
~Apollonius of Tyana

I believe I am not interested to know whether Vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t. To know that the results are profitable to the race would not remove my hostility to it. The pains which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity towards it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further. It is so distinctly a matter of feeling with me, and is so strong and so deeply-rooted in my make and constitution, that I am sure I could not even see a vivisector vivisected with anything more than a sort of qualified satisfaction. I do not say I should not go and look on; I only mean that I should almost surely fail to get out of it the degree of contentment which it ought, of course, to be expected to furnish.
~Mark Twain

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@Writers Platform:

For one moment he stood outside on the flagged walk and let the sun soak into him; then he returned, took up his letters and withdrew into the deep peace of his study. Sunshine and the smell of lavender and roses streamed into it from the garden. It was lined with books…
~May Sinclair

He had now not only a bedroom, but a study, furnished with a simplicity that had the effect of luxury, and lined from floor to ceiling with his books.
~May Sinclair

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!
~Henry Ward Beecher

I couldn’t live a week without a private library ‒ indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
~H P Lovecraft

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You can’t love a library of e-books. You can’t furnish a room with e-books.
~Joanna Trollope

Books do furnish a room.
~Anthony Powell

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Flowers about a rich man’s house may signify only that he has a good gardener, or that he has refined neighbors, and does what he sees them do. But, if on visiting the dwelling of a man of slender means, I find the reason why he has cheap carpets and very plain furniture to be that he may purchase books, he rises at once in my esteem. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house… Let us pity those poor rich men who live barrenly in great, bookless houses!
~Henry Ward Beecher

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A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can’t stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can’t live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff ‒ mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
~Frank Gehry

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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors’.
~Emanuel Celler

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
~Anthony Burgess

There’s no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can’t put your feet up on it and a dog can’t jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

My books are very few, but then the world is before me ‒ a library open to all ‒ from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me ‒ in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
~Joseph Howe

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I remember being taken to visit houses by my father, who then tested my powers of observation by expecting me to describe the things I had seen… Unusual furniture always seemed easier to remember than other things.
~David Linley

It’s really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It’s white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!
~Jane Goldman

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I want to do stories that are about the bits of cultural furniture that are sitting there that we’re like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s been there for years! What could possibly be weird about it?’ And then we’re going to lift that piece of furniture and look at all the bugs scurry away.
~Adam Conover

I am a writer, and the duty of a writer is not only to furnish pleasant pursuits for the mind and taste: he will be held accountable if things useful to the soul are not disseminated by his works and if nothing remains after him as a precept for mankind.
~Nikolai Gogol

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.
~Thomas Love Peacock

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I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born; I knew I should not find a single original thought in any philosophy, and I knew I could not furnish one to the world myself, if I had five centuries to invent it in.
~Mark Twain

I am playing in a playground that’s already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
~Alastair Reynolds

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke…
~Iain Banks

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At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
~Jonathan Carroll

If I’m writing about a modern-day suburb, there’s going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I’m writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they’ll be simplified, because I’m cartooning it.
~Gene Luen Yang

Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even ‘furniture’ characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
~Nancy Kress

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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories ‒ these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance.
~F Sionil Jose

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic; that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults.
~Jonathan Swift

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The publishers wish me to stand in the vestibule of this book and open the door for the people. Those who enter these portals will find three rooms grandly furnished, a picture-gallery, a music-hall, and a library.
~T De Witt Talmage

So if you’re a robot and you’re living on this planet, you can do things that you can’t do in real life – things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.
~William Joyce

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People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don’t think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.
~Jess Walter

I’m really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can’t see what I’m doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
~Joanna Scott

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When I was writing ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
~Anthony Bourdain

I spent 18 months with the furniture parked in front of the radiators, cooking as quickly as I possibly could to use the least amount of gas and electricity. I unscrewed the lightbulbs in the hallway, unplugged everything at the wall so not even the LCD display was blinking away on the oven.
~Jack Monroe

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
~DJ Khaled

When I was writing ‘Withnail,’ I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
~Bruce Robinson

I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.
~Simon Van Booy

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Prewritten Prompt: furnish :: furniture

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth ‒ in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world ‒ have not any subsistence without a mind.
~George Berkeley

Nature, or that sacred and supreme Cause of all Things, which we term God, has furnished his Creatures with such Guides as may best conduct them to the several Ends of their Beings.
~Thomas Burnet

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he’s given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.
~Duane Chapman

I look at my faith like a room, and there was all of this furniture in there, but I had inherited most of the furniture. Then, when I got divorced, I took everything out just to see how I was going to refurnish the room, and that was a very essential step in my life. It was great.
~Pete Holmes

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Ministers should be Bible students. They should thoroughly furnish themselves with the evidences of our faith and hope, and then, with full control of the voice and their feelings, present these evidences in such a manner that the people can calmly weigh them, and decide upon the evidences presented.
~Ellen G White

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
~Tryon Edwards

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It’s very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
~Irvine Welsh

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
~Aldous Huxley

I would have tested the furniture if they’d asked me.
~Karen Morley

Man resides awhile in the house of unbelief, in order that the mansions of faith may be furnished anew.
~Henry James Slack

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.
~Elie Saab

I like Church furniture.
~Andres Serrano

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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
~E Franklin Frazier

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I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level ‒ they’re very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.
~James May

To me, all these things tell a story, and I find clothespin parts as interesting as ‘collectors’ furniture.’ Good pieces of Shaker furniture are interesting, but only so much. It is the other things and the personal effects that let me feel the Shakers.
~Ken Hakuta

It is well known that many of our novelties were in use by our ancestors! In the history of the human mind there is, indeed, a sort of antique furniture which I collect, not merely from their antiquity, but for the sound condition in which I still find them, and the compactness which they still show. Centuries have not worm-eaten their solidity, and the utility and delightfulness which they still afford make them look as fresh and as ingenious as any of our patent inventions…
~Isaac D’Israeli

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‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection…
~William James

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To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
~Vannevar Bush

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, ‘Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.’
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture. It’s an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
~Brian Eno

Technology is a huge part of our lives and it’s only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every corner of your home, even part of something like furniture.
~Sussanne Khan

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How wonderful if we human beings could have such power of emitting light as do the fireflies, — a sort of personal flash to be turned on at will! How it would aid one on dark streets at night, how advantageous for finding lost articles in the hall closet, how tremendously helpful for locating the elusive keyhole at midnight! Yet maybe the cost of upkeep for that light would be too great. Before I had it installed in me, I should wish to have an estimate as to how much of my vitality would be expended to keep it burning. We have no power of knowing what that firefly sacrifices to furnish illumination.
~Dorothy Scarborough, 1919

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Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.
~Isaac Newton

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose…
~Nicolaus Copernicus

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Scorpio is a very beautiful group of stars, and easily traced out in the heavens. It furnishes striking evidence of the facility with which most of the constellations may be so accurately delineated…
~Elijah H. Burritt, 1833

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Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
~Monty Don

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I’m the disciplinarian. Nick doesn’t discipline. The cat can do whatever it wants. It can scratch on the furniture. It can do whatever it wants and Nick doesn’t do anything about it. So I have to yell. I’m the bad cop. He’s the good cop.
~Bridget Marquardt

No dog means no disgusting surprises on carpets… no hefty vet bills, no destruction of everything from eyeglasses to baseboards to legs of furniture, and no responsibility.
~Neil Macdonald

When cats scratch the furniture, it’s only because they’re trying to sharpen their claws, which means they get so long that they want to grind them down. So if you trim their claws routinely, it helps tremendously.
~Beth Ostrosky Stern

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The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.
~Dorothea Dix

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§ The Exercise:

coming soon

Blue Room of nature
the sky
birds for furniture
decorate trees
sprinkle the air
there’s talk of horizon
but only vastness so far

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ufo or uap

if of one race
of human trace
in alien space
then grant with grace
this request
and furnish it
with friendship

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handicapped

living arrangements
furnished apart
meant
lovers’ caution
paid two rents
bet on their success
less’n two cents
two with burdens
both parents

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plaza moment #15

eyes closed
sharp sudden yapping
impertinent barking
distant dog in reply
low drone of background musics
nearby conversations
someone giggles
eyes closed
pleasures unqualified
aural furniture
laughter alive

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lesser definitions

eternity: useless cousin of infinity
fecundity: the hope of sterility
insanity: dream’s escape from brand Sanity

karma: wisdom earned womb to tomb
furniture: the hope of an empty room
future: when what looms is doom

answer: hope some are coming soon

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etc

young one
memory’s empty rooms
lifestyle to outfit
decades to furnish
story unfinished
bio’s unwritten chapters
museum’s hollow echo
rode his bike into a car

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prognosis

they say rash
my way to blush
red hot
furnace fever
they say virus
furnished it,
but more deadly
yet
I know it’s love

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confession #15

poetic license
level of anarchy
outright lie
sheerest hypocrisy
blatant fraud
to write of love

pure fantasy
pretend furniture
don’t even wannabe
having watched
other lives clash
lash and disagree

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Rhinotillexomania BFRB

Daring to outstare
judgement’s glare
crowd’s baleful stare
mount the bucking mare
climb the ever-stairs
don’t care where
away from the censors
Nose mining causes covid
related dementia
but finding those nuggets
turns viral cold into virtual gold

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5s ‘n 7s

furnished heart at large, rent free
vacancy where you could be
proudly sane need not apply
experience, my reply
’tis kindness drops this cruel tip
true spoke from dread druid’s lip
love’s blue moon soon ruins it

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old memories place
view, background furnished
used biographies
different others
apartment dwellers
lived and shared love here
same as the others

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fidelity’s sanctity
furnishing family needs
true love now a bedding sport
ravished furniture, stained sheets
exhibit A divorce court

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roll dice in love’s game again
start at go and try again
furnish with old furniture
remembrances of the past
homestead, livable or not

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romantic feuds, jealousies
treacheries of family
ancient sibling rivalries
older now still immature
quibbling over furniture

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furnished with a phone
SSN, email
mapped face on record
registered human
trackable being

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plethora of ideas
served up tight in thought capsules
solid with substance and heft
nourishments furnished in words
ripe harvest yield, seed for worlds

trite weeds or great words
dead wood or fine furniture
mind that time measures

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furnaces furnished
room 773Ч
compliments of hell
or come spend a little spell
splendid HOT L Baltimore

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canine souvenir
coiled brown sidewalk furniture
or so it is hoped

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
~Zaha Hadid

You just touch on things. You don’t go round the room describing the furniture.
~Evan Hunter

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Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture.
~Mordicai Gerstein

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it’s like therapy.
~Pamela Anderson

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

I always bring divining rods when I’m on tour because you can change energy streams by moving furniture around your hotel room.
~Chris de Burgh

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Television is hypnotic, and it hides among the furniture of your living room. It doesn’t reveal itself, but it distorts everything.
~Richard Dreyfuss

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
Kenny Leon

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I’m a very soft-spoken person. I don’t throw furniture. I don’t throw tantrums.
~Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I’m good with furniture, very bad with plants.
~Dan Levy

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The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish.
~Sheherazade Goldsmith

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
~Alfred Newman

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A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.
~Elsa Peretti

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.
~Donald Judd

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I’m not a furniture person. You sit on the stuff, sleep on it, make love on it.
~Jack Hemingway

I don’t have any furniture.
~Bridget Marquardt

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I’ve never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It’s still my brain ‒ I’m just using different parts of it for different things.
~Douglas Coupland

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
~Gianfranco Ferre

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I recognized that the passion I have and feel for interior and design and furniture was not organically there for styling. The fuel that drives you when doing something you truly love… wasn’t there.
~Jeremiah Brent

When you’re paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
~Lee Daniels

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
Video Harvest: https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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THIS EDITION: source :: resource

Quoted In The Grove:
Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events.
~Giordano Bruno (1548-1600 / butterfly effect-1960)

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
~Arthur Machen

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~Albert Einstein

EndQuote:
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
~Friedrich Schiller

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Next Prompt: furnish :: furniture

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The man who keeps a commonplace-book too often resembles the dog which carefully buries a bone for future use, yet seldom or never returns to dig it up; and it is positively pathetic to think of the intellectual dainties which probably lie buried in many a pale and faded volume of this class.

I propose then to dig up some of the old bones which are to be found in a repository of this kind which lately came into my hands, and to serve up to the reader — if I can catch him — a few curious odds and ends culled from this source; a few literary or linguistic morsels, which I hope may not prove altogether insipid.
~Patrick Maxwell

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Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
~Joseph B Wirthlin

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
~Craig Brown

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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.
~Simon Van Booy

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Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
~Christoph Martin Wieland

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.
~Denis Diderot

One should never learn from one’s mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.
~Peter York

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Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It’s like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, its far over 20%.
~David Bohm

All my indispositions have their source in my mind. It is when I am restless and unhappy that I become susceptible of cold, damp, heats, and such nonsense.
~John Constable

I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
~Yoko Ono

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
~Dalai Lama

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I’m not Hugh Jackman. I’m not a dad. I’m not a husband. I’m just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.
~Hugh Jackman

Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
~David Lynch

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one’s self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
~Madame de Stael

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The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That’s where the music lives. That’s where my music comes from.
~Clarence Clemons

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
~Plautus

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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~Simon Raven

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
~Tom Selleck

If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
~Vin Diesel

Trauma causes us to have an internal experience that is frightening, angry, and shameful. When we feel threatened, as we do when we are traumatized, our entire organism is geared up to find the source of that threat and to do something about it.
~Peter A Levine

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
~Jack Henry Abbott

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~Montgomery Clift

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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
~Titus Livius

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don’t you think?
~Philip Larkin

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
~Kenneth L Pike

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
~Herbert Spencer

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The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
~Ramakrishna

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
~Dag Hammarskjold

You aren’t your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family… your anything. You’re a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
~Wayne Dyer

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
~Joy Page

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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
~Leon Kass

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The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.
~Miriam Defensor-Santiago

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.
~Dalai Lama

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I never viewed money as being ‘my money’ I always saw it as ‘the money.’ It’s a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.
~Louis C K

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
~Leon Kass

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
~Henry Miller

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
~Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Posted From The Grove

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
~Newt Gingrich

Whenever people attack not the idea — but its source — you know they’ve hit the brick wall of their intellectual limitations.
~Dr Idel Dreimer

-or-

Ad hominem attacks
Betray an absence of facts.
~Dr Dreimer

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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.
~James L Buckley

I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
~Kate Brown (Oregon)

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.
~Mikheil Saakashvili

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He’s an innocent in a lot of ways. He’s a very simple person who really doesn’t have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.
~Jared Leto

Politicians constitute the desire for office as a means of gain, being the force of cohesion which keeps leaders and followers together. They have the spirit of self-interest to rouse them and the bridle of fear to check any stirrings of independence. They are organized in rings which are dominated by a Boss. This is the source of immeasurable corruption in public life in the United States
~Edmund Burke

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The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.
~Giorgio Agamben

Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the 1920s, when people are starving, suddenly makes ‘populist’ answers and scapegoating different groups as the source of the problem much more appealing.
~Robert Sapolsky

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world’s ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
~Steven Pinker

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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The love of independence and dislike of unjust treatment is the source of a thousand virtues.
~William Godwin

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
~P J O’Rourke

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
~Stendhal

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Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
~Joe Moore

Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim,
wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame;
obtained with labour, for mankind employed,
and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~Alfred North Whitehead

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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
~Vaclav Havel

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
~P J O’Rourke

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.
~Josiah Stamp

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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
~J William Fulbright

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.
~Arthur C Brooks

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
~Milton Friedman

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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
~Lech Walesa

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: ‘So long as I’m full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?’ The Second Saying: ‘You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.’
~Said Nursi

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
~Paul Wellstone

Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
~Kofi Annan

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A strong economy is the source of national strength.
~Yoshihide Suga

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.
~Shinzo Abe

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
~Andrew Johnson

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Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can’t have perfection in a world of limited resources.
~Harry Browne

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone – not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
~Harry Browne

The Tea Partiers don’t want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren’t going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.
~Neal Boortz

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If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.
~Nikola Tesla

When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source.
~Rex Tillerson

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.
~Virgil Goode

It would be nice if we didn’t have to drill for oil in the gulf. We have this shallow continental shelf on the west coast of Florida, and it would be a real disaster if we had a major oil spill there. It would be wonderful if we could find some other source of energy.
~Eugenie Clark

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.
~Stephen Hawking

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
~Freeman Dyson

The environmental benefits of hydrogen are also outstanding. When used as an energy source, hydrogen produces no emissions besides water. Zero polluting emissions, an amazing advance over the current sources of energy that we use.
~Dan Lipinski

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
~Dennis Weaver

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man’s command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
~Cordell Hull

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We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~Ron Kind

Business can be a source of progressive change.
~Jerry Greenfield

Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
~Lal Bahadur Shastri

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
~Christian Nestell Bovee

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.
~Al Gore

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Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
~Cynthia McKinney

I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.
~Wangari Maathai

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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
~Wangari Maathai

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa…
~Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
~Alva Myrdal

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
~Shimon Peres

International legitimacy is a fundamental source of power for Israel nowadays.
~Ehud Barak

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
~Andrew Cuomo

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Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes – all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone’s car or ask a cell phone company for that individual’s location history and the technology does the work for them. …that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.
~Ron Wyden

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The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
~Ludwig von Mises

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History’s a resource.
~Laura Linney

We need to read history from the source.
~Afeni Shakur

There’s no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there ‒ a source of vital strength.
~Wole Soyinka

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To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth ‒ not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
~Debbie Ford

This foundational principle ‒ that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source ‒ is what made America different.
~Ernie Fletcher

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
~Lakhdar Brahimi (Algerian diplomat and mediator)

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I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
~Joichi Ito

The Chattanooga killer was inspired by a foreign terror organization. It’s hard to entangle which particular source… there are lots of competing poisons out there.
~James Comey

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I’ve been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.
~Julian Assange

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg… Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
~Bob Woodward

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I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.
~John O Brennan

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.
~Curt Weldon

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Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
~James Buchan

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
~Robert Redford

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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don’t understand what the real problems are.
~Aldrich Ames

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~William Pollard

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As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?
~Antonio Guterres

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
~Zach Wamp

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.
~Jon Kyl

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Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.
~Antonio Guterres

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency… The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.
~Tom Tancredo

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the labourer.
~Karl Marx

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
~Leland Stanford

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I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.
~Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
~Sam Houston

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The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
~Lyndon B Johnson

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Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
~Peter A Levine

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.
~James Dickey

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
~Adlai Stevenson

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.
~Marley Dias

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Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
~William L Jenkins

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It’s by encouraging the growth of the economy.
~Mitt Romney

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.
~Nick Hanauer

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
~H L Mencken

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…’s candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ability of the president to launch nuclear weapons. When it comes to starting a nuclear war, the president has more freedom than he or she does in, say, ordering the use of torture.
~Lawrence M Krauss

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The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.
~Terry Eagleton

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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
~Octavio Paz

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Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
~Susan Rice

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world’s democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
~Natan Sharansky

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The Court’s legitimacy arises from the source of its authority ‒ which is, of course, the Constitution ‒ and is best preserved by adhering to decision methods that neither expand nor contract but legitimize the power of judicial review.
~Diane S Sykes

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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
~George W Bush

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we’re getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We’re making things again.
~Barack Obama

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
~Henry Ford

We are special because we’ve been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We’re bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
~Marco Rubio

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
~Bill Frist

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~Hussam BinNasser: Source (0.28) short video poem

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~QuickFlirt.com: Online dating tips (3:08) starts cute, quickly gets practical

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~Bill Gates

As a country, we can do better. Our home should be a source of stability, not insecurity. This issue is personal for me… even with a steady paycheck, I couldn’t pay rent.
~Kane Brown

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
~Maxwell Maltz

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
~Robert South

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If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work ‒ it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
~Kapil Dev

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I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their choice. I have found the puppies to be a reliable source of income with a consistent rate of return.
~Willie Geist

My source of income is sports betting. I have some investments also.
~James Holzhauer

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds.
~Isabella Bird

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I feel like, as an industry, we’ve gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.
~Travis Beacham

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them.
~Terri Windling

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
~Denis Waitley

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area’s workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today’s global economy.
~Rod Blagojevich

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Housing wealth ‒ the net equity held by households, consisting of the value of their homes minus their mortgage debt ‒ is the most important source of wealth for all but those at the very top.
~Janet Yellen

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
~Ferdinand Lassalle

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
~Charles Babbage

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
~Hesiod

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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
~Urjit Patel

The gas, which is our main source of power, is priced in dollars.
~Aliko Dangote (Nigeria)

Right now the problem in Thailand is we have high debt, but we don’t know how to earn the new source of revenue back to Thailand. This is my job.
~Yingluck Shinawatra

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda’s economy: It’s the third highest source of income.
~Andy Serkis

Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
~Salva Kiir Mayardit

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.
~Rashid al-Ghannushi

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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
~Mos Def

I’ve always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
~Jack Bruce

Here’s the key to Jamaica, the secret to Jamaican dancehall parties, no matter where you are in the world. If you do not see Japanese people, you’re at the wrong party. They source authenticity like no other culture I’ve ever seen.
~Walshy Fire

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Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital ‒ the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.
~Jack Welch (GE)

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
~Ernest Holmes

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With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.
~Robert Greene

Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don’t act as though they’re better than you because they don’t think that they’re better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.
~Travis Bradberry

The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute ‒ in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.
~Satya Nadella

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You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It’s the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well.
~Mehmet Oz

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Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.
~Maria Montessori

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It’s a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end ‒ as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
~Brian Behlendorf

I often compare open source to science. To where science took this whole notion of developing ideas in the open and improving on other peoples’ ideas and making it into what science is today and the incredible advances that we have had. And I compare that to witchcraft and alchemy, where openness was something you didn’t do.
~Linus Torvalds

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Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source from a security standpoint.
~Sundar Pichai

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It’s the right way to do things.
~Linus Torvalds

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In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
~Linus Torvalds

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
~Tim O’Reilly

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
~Golan Levin

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
~Linus Torvalds

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School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.
~Lili Reinhart

Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
~Emma Willard

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
~Alvin Toffler

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
~Shirley Hufstedler

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
~John F Kennedy

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
~Anne Sullivan Macy

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~Bertrand Russell

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
~Martha Beck

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
~Richard Dawkins

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
~Victor Cousin

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there’s nothing to fear and hate.
~Daryl Davis

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When what we introduce into the children’s world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person’s life.
~Rudolf Steiner

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people’s emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
~Quentin Blake

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The only source of knowledge is experience.
~Albert Einstein

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
~Thomas Malthus

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
~Muhammad Iqbal

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
~Thomas Berger

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
~Ivan Pavlov

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Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
~Linus Pauling

An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
~David Attenborough

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
~John Burroughs

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I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don’t think there’s ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us ‒ who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we’re buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.
~Rick Smolan

Technology steers what 2 billion people are thinking and believing every day. It’s possibly the largest source of influence over 2 billion people’s thoughts that has ever been created. Religions and governments don’t have that much influence over people’s daily thoughts.
~Tristan Harris

The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what’s happening around the world, we can also be watched.
~Alicia Garza

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Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use – not only text or media but processing power too – will be located remotely.
~Marc Andreessen

If you could utilize the resources of the end users’ computers, you could do things much more efficiently.
~Niklas Zennstrom

I don’t immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.
~Zachary Quinto

The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn’t based on fairy tales. It’s based on observable facts in the human and in the biological history of the planet. I think that can be a source for comfort.
~Greg Graffin

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It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin’s insights not only changed his contemporaries’ view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
~James D Watson

I can’t think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
~Richard Leakey (Kenya’s Lake Turkana)

The ocean is the source of life. We all come from there. I think about these one-celled creatures, and I think about the planet. It is related to my obsession with biology, even if it’s only a layperson’s obsession. The way I visualise what’s at the bottom of the ocean is very much to do with how I feel when I’m swimming in the sea.
~Wangechi Mutu

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
~Walter Lippmann

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
~Garrett Hardin

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
~R Buckminster Fuller

We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
~Paul Hawken

In the history of America, we’ve never had an energy plan. We don’t even realize the resources we have available to us.
~T Boone Pickens

I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It’s staggering.
~Robert Ballard

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
~Bill Gates

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We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.
~Paul Hawken

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
~Shimon Peres

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And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
~Michael Franti

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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.
~Simon Raven

If you’re the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you’ve gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
~Vin Diesel

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
~Jack Henry Abbott

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
~Montgomery Clift

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It’s easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It’s not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.
~Stephen Root

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For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.
~Jackie Chan

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.
~William Shatner

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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
~Edward de Bono

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Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.
~Emilia Wickstead

Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.
~Tom Shales

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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome ‒ people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
~Wayne Dyer

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
~Walter Gropius

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~Joseph Wallace Productions: Salvation Has No Name (18:40) animated, the stuff and source of legends

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~Michael Rees: Middle Sized Things (15:21) late getting to it, but comes together at the end

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The ‘Fake News Alert’ Chrome extension, created by ‘New York Magazine‘ journalist Brian Feldman, identifies hoax news articles. However, cutting out fake news source entirely from operating is easier said than done, since anyone with internet access can create fake news.
~Fabrizio Moreira

In the news feed on your phone, all stories look the same ‒ whether they come from a credible source or not.
~Katharine Viner

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I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they’ve been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming.
~Sheldon Whitehouse

You need, in order to run a country as diverse as ours, a prominently recognized news source.
~Tucker Carlson

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
~Thomas Sowell

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
~Phil Donahue

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If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don’t see it anywhere else, I’ll just go right to the source and check it out.
~Al Michaels

You shouldn’t use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.
~Jimmy Wales

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.
~Anthony Holden

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There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
~Thomas Frank

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.
~Noam Chomsky

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After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America’s largest source of trade surplus.
~Tyler Cowen

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In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that’s real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.
~Suga

As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I’d go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
~Zoe Foster Blake

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.
~Ron Suskind

Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.
~Rain

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I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I’m capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don’t know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.
~Catriona Gray

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
~Michelangelo

The body, in ‘La Belle Noiseuse,’ was the source of the artist’s creativity.
~Emmanuelle Beart

I wish we didn’t have to be nude to be noticed… But given the game as it exists, women make decisions. For instance, the Miss America contest is, in all of its states… the single greatest source of scholarship money for women in the United States.
~Caterina Fake

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The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman’s art points to the beauty of the craftsman’s attributes manifested in that art.
~Said Nursi

(Ed Note: Unwrap that, if you will)

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
~Eckhart Tolle

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
~Albert Camus

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Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into the upper. A thousand rills which have their rise in the sources of thought burst forth and fertilize my brain… Only while we are in action is the circulation perfect.
~Henry David Thoreau

A taste for literature is one of the most substantial sources of enjoyment with which the human race is acquainted…. In opulence or poverty, whether free to roam over the world or confined in a prison—still, if he has within his reach a few favorite authors, he can banish the troubles and trials of the present, and be happy within the world of mind.
~Charles Lanman

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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
~John Philip Sousa

After it’s finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.
~Tracy Chapman

I don’t get my inspiration from a specific source. It’s more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
~Rain

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I played with the same band for years and years and there’s a beauty to having one solid core that you keep exploring. On the other hand, it’s nice to throw yourself in different situations where you find out things about your own resources.
~Grant-Lee Phillips

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.
~Ian Williams

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that’s not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don’t know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don’t have any pressure on me.
~Jackson Browne

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No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
~Renee Fleming

Whether it’s music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
~Idris Elba

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First of all, I want people to understand that I’m here to create for them. To create music for people so they’ll know that I’m a source of love. And they can depend on my name.
~Brian Wilson

For some, music is a limitless source of cheap content, just waiting to be exploited.
~Mick Hucknall

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It’s a big source of inspiration. With what’s going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.
~Cecilia Bartoli

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We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an interesting idea to go right back 100 years to find the source of some new ideas now.
~Anne Dudley

If you want to find the source of much of the music of modern day Russia, you will find it in the incredible compositions of that crazed lunatic Berlioz.
~Ray Bradbury

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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
~Havelock Ellis

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result?
~Helmut Jahn

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
~Tadao Ando

Rich men’s houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
~Margot Asquith

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line… Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
~Arthur Erickson

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What young men nowadays don’t realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.
~Brian Clough

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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
~Balthus

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.
~Jackson Pollock

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It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands.
~Neil MacGregor

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
~Laura Riding

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It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
~Eric Hoffer

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
~Peter York

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~The Blaze: MADLY (6:27) unsure if a music video, a love poem, or dance party

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~Kazuhiro Hotaru: Source of Wind (3:05) no video, soothing drone

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~Nadia Birkenstock: A la Source (1:40) Celtic Harp Solo

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~beetlebug: a letter from a notable source (3:06) dreamy invitation to read

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~InxMamuYT: Adiyogi_ The Source of Yoga (4:08) ethereal takes you there

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The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it’s a source of great pain and that lasts.
~Michael Morpurgo

Whoever named the ruby-throated hummingbird had little regard for the females of the species, since only the male has a ruby throat. Perhaps the name emerged when it was noted that the males of the species have but a very brief courtship with the females and then leave their spouses to raise their young without assistance… Not only that, but once the mating time is over, the humming Lotharios actually chase away their erstwhile mates from sources of nectar!
~R D Lawrence

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Concupiscence [desire] and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
~Blaise Pascal

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
~Richard Le Gallienne

…because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of two in a single body, a single soul, oh total being…
~Octavio Paz

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There’s a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source ‒ the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.
~Matthew Stover

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
~Anthony Storr

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~Eric Hoffer

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
~Anais Nin

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The basis for all human relationships and where we derive our greatest strength and power, trust is single-handedly the most powerful source of positive energy and, once in place, unlocks a freedom and peace to explore.
~Angela Ahrendts

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
~Erma Bombeck

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
~Samuel Johnson

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love’s conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.
~Radhanath Swami

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.
~Susan Lieberman

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I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, ‘It’s the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.’ I’ve thought about that so many times in my life when things didn’t go right.
~Bonnie Hunt

It’s a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
~Naveen Jain

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From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even when I had forgotten its source. It was my foster mother, a half-Indian, half-German woman, who taught me to read, though she herself was barely literate. I remember her reading to me every day from ‘True Romance’ magazine.
~Walter Dean Myers

I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.
~Tory Burch

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He’s a lawyer, and when he’d get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
~Dan Reynolds

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It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn’t done. And I felt it, too.
~Liz Phair

`I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn’t even looked at before.
~Kenny Loggins

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
~Jerry B Jenkins

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother’s anxiety.
~Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
~Edmund Leach

More than any other setting – more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel – I’ll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.
~Joyce Maynard

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When we protect children from every possible source of danger, we also prevent them from having the kinds of experiences that develop their sense of self-reliance, their ability to assess and mitigate risk, and their sense of accomplishment.
~Gever Tulley

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What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.
~Geraldine Ferraro

I wouldn’t trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That’s a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
~Felicity Kendal

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My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
~Katherine Heigl

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
~Naveen Jain

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The safest person, sometimes, is a stranger on the Internet who lives in a different place. If they’re a daily source of support and advice, no one really wants to lose that once they have it. If they know deep down that the person they’re talking to isn’t exactly who they say they are, it’s not worth finding out.
~Max Joseph

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
~Thomas Aquinas

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The dog can only become what’s in your bubble. The dog is imitating the energy that is in your bubble. You are the source, the feast of energy. If you feel anxious, the dog becomes anxious with you. If you become nervous, the dog wakes up nervous with you.
~Cesar Millan

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.
~Frans de Waal

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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
~Carl Jung

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
~Warren Farrell

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
~Lucretia Mott

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From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra’s irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will ‒ really a great political genius, in that respect.
~Stacy Schiff

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It’s like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s no way I can represent for everyone. I can’t represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It’s important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can’t take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
~Queen Latifah

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As hard as it is, owning who you are and knowing what you want is the only sure path to affirmation… I want women to know they can get out of any situation if they return to their core source of strength: themselves.
~Ashley Graham

“Apologizing when we have done something wrong is a real strength, but compulsive apologizing presents as a weakness at work and in personal relationships.” It’s time for women to kick the apology habit and take their power back…
~Tara Swart, w/ Caroline Castrillon

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
~Gloria Estefan

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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
~Scott Adams

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
~Arthur Baer

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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~Mark Twain

There’s always a source for humor.
~Calvin Trillin

So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
~Al Yankovic

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Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don’t want to bully people, and I don’t want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
~Bo Burnham

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
~James Thurber

Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It’s a source of strength.
~Kerry Kennedy

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To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
~Claude Vorilhon

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
~Sophocles

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A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
~Mary Tyler Moore

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
~Nicholas Stern

Food production is ripping the living world apart. Fishing and farming are, by a long way, the greatest cause of extinction and loss of the diversity and abundance of wildlife. Farming is a major cause of climate breakdown, the biggest cause of river pollution and a hefty source of air pollution.
~George Monbiot

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Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
~Kris Carr

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
~Edward Jenner

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Locally produced foods ‒ defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one’s home ‒ have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.
~Tyler Florence

We’ve gotten so far away from our food source. It’s been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It’s that simple.
~Ron Finley

All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They’re also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.
~Suzanne Somers

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Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
~Wilson Greatbatch

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.
~Kevin J Anderson

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We carry stores of DNA in our nuclei that may have come in, at one time or another, from the fusion of ancestral cells and the linking of ancestral organisms in symbiosis. Our genomes are catalogues of instructions from all kinds of sources in nature, filed for all kinds of contingencies.
~Lewis Thomas

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
~Isaac Newton

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Canyon Smoke

© Silvia Trujillo

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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
~Brigham Young

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
~Willy Ley

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
~Jacques Monod

I am suspicious of writers who say their work is original and influenced by nobody. If it is, it is probably uninteresting. The biggest source of novels is other novels.
~Teju Cole

Originality is the art of concealing your source.
~Franklin P Jones

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The source and center of all man’s creative power… is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
~Robert Collier

The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
~Nicholas Ray

Ideas are all around you ‒ everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
~Bruce Coville

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.
~Alex Grey

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I don’t believe in ‘thinking’ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies ‒ a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult ‒ my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
~Wayne Dyer

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~Sophia Loren

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
~Daisaku Ikeda

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Silence is a source of great strength.
~Lao Tzu

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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
~Sigmund Freud

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.
~John Cooper Clarke

…character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
~Joan Didion,

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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
~Daniel Dennett

We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
~Josefa Iloilo

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
~Pierre Bayle

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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That’s the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That’s worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
~Ang Lee

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.
~Deepak Chopra

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~Nhat Hanh

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Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
~Jeremy Clarkson

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~Oliver Goldsmith

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
~Stephen Ambrose

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
~Peter Drucker

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@Writers Platform

An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy.
~Greil Marcus

I write to relieve an intellectual itch. I stumble across a hitherto neglected set of events, transformations, characters, or source materials from the past, and they nag at me until I make sense of them in words. But I also write to seduce and to make my readers think.
~Linda Colley

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.
~Eavan Boland

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In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
~Jorge Luis Borges

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.
~Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
~A R Ammons

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
~Richard Eberhart

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people’s only source of knowledge about the world.
~Ryszard Kapuscinski

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I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.
~James Wong Howe

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
~Graham Greene

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but ‘histo-tainment’ is superficial and lacks all context.
~Antony Beevor

We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
~Sam Wood

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.
~Graeme Base

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My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for books.
~Josh Hutcherson

Almost every script that I’ve gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven’t chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I’ve been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
~Ben Barnes

Whether you’re Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it’s text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.
~Peter Greenaway

On stage, you’re not limited at all because you’re free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
~Sam Shepard

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can’t portray when you’re acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel.
~Amanda Seyfried

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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
~Wallace Stevens

Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what’s called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
~Noam Chomsky

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don’t know, but every character is an extension of the author’s own personality.
~Edward Albee

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
~Horace Moral

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The muse, the beloved, and duende [passion/inspiration] are three ways of thinking of what is the source of poetry, and all three seem to me different names or different ways to think about something that is not entirely reasonable, not entirely subject to the will, not entirely rational.
~Edward Hirsch

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I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.
~Tuppence Middleton

I lead a very conventional life. I don’t lead a writer’s life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn’t lead a writer’s life at all.
~Joan Didion

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet’s personality.
~Mark Strand

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I’ve got my whole life. There’s a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
~Rita Coolidge

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Prewritten Prompt: source

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
~Joseph Conrad

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
~John Bradshaw

There is no possible source of evil except good.
~Saint Augustine

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
~Samuel Butler

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
~Maimonides

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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
~Peace Pilgrim

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The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.
~Hunter King

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every ‘world’ I’ve been in, most people I’ve meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.
~James Altucher

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength… Emotions are a source of power, and that’s what science tells us. But many people I encounter have been led to think of emotions as a source of weakness.
~Vivek Murthy

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
~Rollo May

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
~Charles William Eliot

The only true source of politeness is consideration.
~William Gilmore Simms

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
~Tony Snow

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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
~Paracelsus

Two urns on Jove’s high throne have ever stood,
the source of evil one, and one of good;
from thence the cup of mortal man he fills,
blessings to these, to those distributes ills;
to most he mingles both.
~Homer

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Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.
~John Shelby Spong

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way ‒ on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom.
~David Wilcock

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Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay, eternal and divine; and every religion is the answer from the Universal Spirit to the seeking spirits of men that came forth from Him.
~Annie Besant

Various religious systems have been given to humanity at different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source: ‒ God, all religions exhibit similar fundamentals or first principles.
~Max Heindel

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
~Radhanath Swami

For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
~Wadah Khanfar

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.
~Mustafa Akyol

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
~Noah Webster

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~Adam Clarke

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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
~Francis Wright

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth ‒ the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.
~Gordon B Hinckley

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The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don’t understand it.
~George Santayana

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The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
~Richard Rohr

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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
~Dag Hammarskjold (missled out of the sky)

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
~Paramahansa Yogananda

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
~Sam Harris

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All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
~Vinoba Bhave

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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer ‒ persistent prayer ‒ can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
~Ezra Taft Benson

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
~Lyndon B Johnson

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
~Henri Nouwen

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I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
~Neil Young

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.
~Timothy Radcliffe

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
~Bill Gates

My faith isn’t very churchy, it’s a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
~Bear Grylls

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
~Frank Sinatra

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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
~Pearl S Buck

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
~Swami Vivekananda

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The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
~Conrad Hall

The sun is a great source of blood-vitality, it streams strength into us.
~D H Lawrence

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
~Rumi

How strange it is, when life is bursting with light and strength, renewing itself every day in color and freshness, that we should sunder ourselves from these great sources of power. With all the treasures of earth at hand, we coop ourselves in narrow causeways where even a sudden knife-edge of bright sunlight is a matter of joyful surprise. Why do we grudge ourselves the embraces of “Our brother and good friend the Sun?”
~Christopher Morley

The sky is the source of light in nature ‒ and governs everything.
~John Constable

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature’s sources never fail.
~John Muir

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
~David Attenborough

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Brown is the color of hearth and home — of dried herbs and stone-ground bread and freshly baked cookies. It represents all of the nurturing, life-sustaining, down-to-earth qualities of terra firma, the very shade of earth itself. Just as in the sturdy oak, brown represents roots, a steady, stable source of security, comfort, and normalcy. It is the color of fertile soil and plowed earth, buckskin and rawhide, weathered redwood, bison and mustang, frontier land — rugged and outdoorsy. It is pine cone and bracken, chipmunk and acorn, beaver and doe. Brown is considered a classic shade of solid substance.
~Leatrice Eiseman

The security, stability, and firmness of the earth inspire those parts of my life that call for grounding. I give thanks to the earth for being the source of food, beauty, and my bones. I feel oneness with the rocks, the mountains, and Mother Earth…
~author unknown

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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
~Peter Benchley

A plump, well-fed stream is as satisfying to behold as a well-fed animal or a thrifty tree. One source of charm in the English landscape is the full, placid stream the season through; no desiccated watercourses will you see there, nor any feeble, decrepit brooks, hardly able to get over the ground.
~John Burroughs

Nature is the fountain’s head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
~John Constable

I have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. It’s a river that immediately presents to the traveler, ‘I am a grandfather spirit. I have a source; I have a life.’
~William Least Heat-Moon

The Ganga remains sacred from Gomukh, its source, to Ganga sagar, where it enters the ocean. It sanctifies the tributaries, which attain the very nature of Ganga. Similar is Sanskrit; sacred by itself, it sanctifies all that come into its contact.
~Sushma Swaraj

For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration.
~Tom Carper

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§ The Exercise

poesy on clouds

wonders that wander
such drama in clouds
never settled in their ways
chasing each other
not for enveloping
not a smothering
but a merging
coming together

volumes of grey
nothing black or white
room for everything
positives and negatives
with wet hot energies
conflict, source electric
sometimes a fighting
we call it a storm

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in today’s news

neigh-saying horse
studies, his field of course
presented reason in verse
wise and patient but terse
grounded proverbs for source
roused the mob but worse
protesting loudly ’til hoarse
in language vivid and coarse
used to force o’er crafted discourse
(cut to commercial: return to)
…reinforced

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either

stray dog asleep in the deep soft grass
to wake revived, hungry instincts alive
nose to ground, the hunt
the grind for scraps and rinds
or
still chest at rest
safe arrived at last
the death of a pet
undiscovered roadside

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Thank You note

Oil as source and resource
Brutal counterpunch to bland
Offbeat taste out of tune
Out of place
Pulls everything together
Alignment’s magic
Fills the space between
Completes the taste
Thank you Dr Olive Oyl
Your ardent student
@Olive U

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rhymes of a sort #25

flooded fields
too much rain
hopeless future
blame the reign
feckless rider
fault the reins

too hot the sun
stunted crops
believe in markets
watch them drop
endless misery
make it stop

toxic air
life with cars
lessons learned
got the scars
boundless mystery
source the stars

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plaza proposal

which came first
license or the certificate
disguised but decipherable
chicken or the egg answered
honored and filmed
no need knowing tho
which was which

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meditation #25

thin mountain air
toxic with beauty
inhaled
a source of sorts
from Duty to:
the privilege of life

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catechism

proven source of deep pleasure
life of challenge and leisure
denim ‘n sweats ‘n old cotton shirts
filtered, censored, narrowed apertures
memories bankable if edited and cropped

pain without measure
no love, nothing to treasure
to dream, cherish and wake for
sense that drifting, going unfocused
loss of chapters ‘twould better instruct us

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5s ‘n 7s

smarty-pants-phone dictator
photo ops staged and contrived
seduced public attention
reality disengaged
makes good for a pleasant life

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roll dice in love’s game again
start at go and try again
furnish with old furnitures
remembrances of the past
at source, livable or not

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singular resplendent birds
neither bevy or covey
strutting, step out together
group source never meant for soup
nice ‘n tasty nonetheless

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note under the door
cryptic message, source unknown
decipherable
chief compliance officer
please note, conditions remain

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source of joy somewhere
a radio’d someone
making mad music
fast loud make you dance
sit liquid in place

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what source sparks the kids
nuclear fusion the guess
family, that is

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sour milk of late life
curds for crop sourced afterlife
compost breeds again

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
~Soren Kierkegaard

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
~Pierre Corneille

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The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight.
~Paul Bloom

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
~Victor Hugo

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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world’s richest source of rewarding challenges.
~Edsger Dijkstra

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
~William Safire

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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
~Pierre de Coubertin

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
~Hugh Blair

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Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.
~Maya Angelou

We’ve simply been putting Band-Aids on the wounds of racism. We haven’t drilled down to the bone to get to its source.
~Daryl Davis

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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
~Thom Yorke

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
~Arthur Holly Compton

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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.
~Napoleon Hill

Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~Richard E Byrd

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The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.
~Will Self

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
~Steve Jobs

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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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