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• The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

  Thomas Mallon

  Sailing, Fiction, World

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• I like most of the places I've been to, but I've never really wanted to go to Japan, simply because I don't really like eating fish, and I know that's very popular out there in Africa, but the whole thing just doesn't appeal to me.

  Britney Spears

  Japan, Eating, Fishes

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• The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

  Jay Leno

  Stupid, Circus, Election

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• Black and white is much closer to the condition of
  dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was
  part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

  John Boorman

  Dream, Black And White, Thinking

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• I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the way is excellent. I will post about some of my favorites that should appeal to adult readers

  Megan McCafferty

  Jobs, Trying, Adults

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• Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Sweet, Numbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.174, Penguin

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• But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
  Process and Reality

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Class, Rats

  Alfred North Whitehead (2010). “Process and Reality”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

  Paul Mellon

  Emotional, Oil, Drawing

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• I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confusion, Worship, Painful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.106, Modern Library

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• Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Imagination, Ordinary, Limits

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.132

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• An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Stupid, Race

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.

  Jan Smuts

  Emotional, Hands, Things In Life

  "Holism and Evolution". Book by Jan Smuts, p. 337, 1926.

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• For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

  Arthur Eddington

  Truth, Learning, Court

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  P. D. James

  Childhood, Prison, One Sentence

  P.D. James (2012). “Innocent Blood”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

  Anton Chekhov

  Summer, Country, Winter

  "Lady N - 's Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1887.

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• People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Hype, People

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• The market is a very emotional place that appeals to fear and greed.

  Walter Schloss

  Emotional, Greed, Investing

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• You might as well appeal against the thunder-storm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable, and the only way the people of Atlanta can hope once more to live in peace and quiet at home, is to stop the war, which can only be done by admitting that it began in error and is perpetuated in pride.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Home, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1875). “Memoirs of General William T. Sherman”, p.126

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• I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Believe, Way, Certain

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• A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Trump, Caprice, Hypothesis

  Jerry A. Coyne (2010). “Why Evolution is True”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.

  Corra May Harris

  Family, Home, Expression

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• 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

  Keeley Hawes

  Beautiful, People, Looks

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• Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own tongue ... I make a particular appeal to the botanists, who appear to delight in troublesome words.

  Oliver Lodge

  Men, Delight, Tongue

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• Insomniac is an impassioned work-an inspired amalgam of academic and first-hand research, memoir, analysis, and the kind of obsessive brooding we associate with the insomniac state. Much here is fascinating, and much is upsetting; here is a cri de coeur from a lifetime insomniac that is sure to appeal to the vast army of fellow insomniacs the world over.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Army, Hands, Upset

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