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• Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

  Howard Gardner

  Love, Marriage, Fall

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• Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

  Scott Bakula

  Brother, Dad, Lawyer

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• A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Eye, Men

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• It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Years, Grace

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• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

  George Santayana

  Emotional, Feelings, Felt

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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• If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.

  Joseph Paxton

  Knowledge, Science, Vegetables

  Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.2

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• Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Taken

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• The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.

  Drew Pinsky

  Success, Addiction, Dresses

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• If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Loss, Knowing

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• It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Favors, Death Penalty, Penalties

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• The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Success, Succeed

  "The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two".

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• I always had an affinity for lizards. I've always felt somewhat close to them. They're reptiles. I find myself feeling somewhat reptilian at times.

  Johnny Depp

  Feelings, Reptiles, Lizards

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• It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those who sense the profound affinity that exists between the film medium and a desire to understand people.

  Robert Gardner

  People, Profound, Desire

  Robert Gardner (2010). “Just Representations”, p.239, Lulu.com

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• Heaven? I don't have an affinity with that place.

  SebastiAn

  Heaven

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• It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.

  Charles Fort

  Light, Hymns, Special

  Charles Fort (2014). “Lo!”, p.48, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.

  David Gilmour

  People, Feelings, Scene

  Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.

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• I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Interesting, Stories

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.

  Egon Friedell

  Heart, Destiny, Men

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.229, Transaction Publishers

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• After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

  Trevor Dunn

  Years, Definitions, Study

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• It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.

  Calvin Harris

  Team, Ethos, Long

  "Calvin Harris' amazing transformation from geek to million dollar DJ" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 17, 2014.

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• Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

  John Lubbock

  Children, Science, Men

  Sir John Lubbock (1872). “Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages”, p.570

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• I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable.

  Jack Kirby

  Horror

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Idea that all the beats are wildly liberal and progressive is ridiculous. You have people thinking for themselves and having certain affinities because of their upbringing and who their family are, their own people who were close to them who fought in these wars and so on. It's complicated. But they had that ability to continue the conversation.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Certain, Recognise, One Thing

  "Dustin Hoffman and me" by John Burnham Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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