Affinity Quotes - Page 6

• I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  People, Want, Break

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• Growing up in Northern Ontario provided me with a strong affinity for the natural environment that was so eloquently responded to by Tom Thomson and his colleagues. The concept of this painting grew out of a number of forays into Algonquin over the years. From its conception I intended Algonquin to be a subtle tribute to Tom Thomson. But I also wanted it to be a response to the natural beauty that so typifies the grandeur of Ontario’s first provincial park.

  Ken Danby

  Strong, Growing Up, Numbers

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• Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Insane, And Love

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. 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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• Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Lying, Doubt

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• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.

  Che Guevara

  Race, Example, Territory

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead.

  Che Guevara

  Race, America, Black

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• We feel an affinity with a certain thinker because we agree with him; or because he shows us what we were already thinking; or because he shows us in a more articulate form what we were already thinking; or because he shows us what we were on the point of thinking; or what we would sooner or later have thought; or what we would have thought much later if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have been likely to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now; or what we would have liked to think but never would have thought if we hadn’t read it now.

  Lydia Davis

  Thinking, Form, Certain

  Lydia Davis (2014). “Almost No Memory: Stories”, p.192, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Thinking, Love Is, Magic

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• Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

  Robert Greene

  Life, Benefits, World

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component.

  Eric Schmidt

  Going Away, Fundamentals, Problem

  "Google's Schmidt Says Internet 'Cesspool' Needs Brands" by Nat Ives, adage.com. October 8, 2008.

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• I repeat again: the male mind is egoistic. You have to learn the way of the feminine, you have to become egoless, you have to learn the path of surrender. You have to learn how to melt into existence, how to become one with the rivers and the mountains and the clouds, how to feel affinity, attunement, at-onement. And then slowly, slowly you become a host. The day you are a host, the Guest comes.

  Rajneesh

  Clouds, Rivers, Mind

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• I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the UK hip hop scene.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Children, Artist, Hip Hop

  MTV Interview, www.mtv.com.au. March 4, 2011.

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• My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression… I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers… I try to bewitch the crowd.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Art, Men, Trying

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• I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Golf, Years

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• 'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

  Andrew Davies

  Beautiful, Emotional, Laughing

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• Well, first of all, I grew up in New York City, going to first a public school, then a private school, and when I got to the private school in Manhattan, I learned of what we called 'The Promised Land,' which are the Hamptons. I've always had an affinity for the Hamptons.

  Mark Feuerstein

  New York, School, Cities

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• This new force, which was unknown until now, is common to organic and inorganic nature. I do not believe that this is a force entirely independent of the electrochemical affinities of matter; I believe, on the contrary, that it is only a new manifestation, but since we cannot see their connection and mutual dependence, it will be easier to designate it by a separate name. I will call this force catalytic force. Similarly, I will call the decomposition of bodies by this force catalysis, as one designates the decomposition of bodies by chemical affinity analysis.

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Believe, Independent, Science

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• The tech community is a closely knit group, which is why it's so powerful. All of these companies have an affinity for each other, even if they compete with each other.

  Ron Conway

  Powerful, Community, Groups

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• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Angel

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• Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, History, Christianity

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• If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Equality, Different, Kind

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.99, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.

  Samuel Smiles

  Book, Men, Mutual Love

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.264

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• Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Philosophy, Writing, Criticism

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• Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.

  Bob Beauprez

  America, Mountain, Campaigns

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