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• Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Criticism, Hurtful

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• I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

  Guy Pearce

  Cat, Thinking, Way

  "Portrait of the artist" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2007.

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• Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

  J. G. Holland

  Wisdom

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• Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.

  Eugene Dubois

  Apes, Groups, Bones

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• The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the examination of fully developed species;-But to obtain an insight into the laws of development,-the signification or bedeutung, of the parts of an animal body demands a patient examination of the successive stages of their development, in every group of Animals.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Animal, Law

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• If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.

  Henry Adams

  Fall, Law, Return

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• The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Cohesion, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.31, North Atlantic Books

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• I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

  Tracy Letts

  Knows, Greater

  Tracy Letts (2010). “August”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

  Phil Pringle

  Vision, Congregation

  Phil Pringle (2013). “You The Leader”, p.267, Faris Digital Solutions

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• Interest refers to student’s affinity, curiosity, or passion for a particular topic or skill.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Passion, Skills, Curiosity

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• How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.

  Sarah Waters

  Air, Soul, Doe

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• When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person.

  Granville Sharp

  Two, Office, Quality

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• No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

  Ron Luciano

  Running, Brother, Umpires

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• I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.

  Tina Fey

  Cute, Dog, Hurt

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Night, Drawing, Oneself

  Patricia Highsmith (2001). “Strangers on a Train”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?

  Andre Breton

  Fate, Unique, Men

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• At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Distance, Thinking, Profound

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• Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Communication, Reality, Understanding

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• Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Art, Bears, Sometimes

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• Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.105, Modern Library

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• I love God and I follow Jesus but I just don't have much affinity for the organized folderol of the churches in the Western World.

  Larry Norman

  Jesus, Church, World

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• You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.

  George Rodger

  Heart, Play, Feels

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• Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Solitude, Suggestions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.388

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• Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.

  Louis Agassiz

  Animal, Classification

  Louis Agassiz (1859). “An Essay on Classification”, p.129

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• Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth in it. Lasker's style is clear water, but with a drop of poison which is clouding it. Capablanca's style is perhaps still clearer, but it lacks that drop of poison.

  Jacques Mieses

  Water, Style, Experts

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