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• It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.378, Ballantine Books

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• There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

  Jean Giraudoux

  War, Would Be, World

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Giving, Naked

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

  Jung Chang

  Mother, Travel, Heart

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• What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Player, Nba

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• I love the Miami atmosphere.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Miami

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• We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can ... our attitude.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Optimistic, Expression

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Believe, Science, Self

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• The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore. Ego is illness; it needs an atmosphere of sadness to exist. Seriousness creates the sadness in you. Sadness is a necessary soil for the ego. Hence your saints are so serious, for the simple reason that they are the most egoistic people on the earth. They may be trying to be humble, but they are very proud of their humbleness. They take their humbleness very seriously.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, Fun, Sadness

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• If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.

  Marshall Field

  Men, Society, Liberty

  Marshall Field (1945). “Freedom is More Than a Word”

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• Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Equality, Liberty, Achieve

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Knowledge, Science

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• I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Life, Religious, Ocean Exploration

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• You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid! ... Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration ... is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.

  Michael Faraday

  Life, Growing Up, Science

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• Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Science, Police

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• Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

  Arthur Helps

  Pride, Wickedness, Mediums

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• It is better not to call anything to anybody - just remain centered in yourself. Look at the world and drop judgments, and you will have such a pure atmosphere around you - no appreciation, no condemnation, just a pure watchfulness. This watchfulness, I call meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Appreciation, Meditation, Looks

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• Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

  Dalai Lama

  Caring, Compassion, Feelings

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• A happy and a glorious Easter will this one be to all of us who get a new vision of the risen Christ, and prostrate ourselves in humble adoration at His feet, and cry out: "Rabboni! Rabboni!" Then shall we set our hearts, lifted into a new atmosphere, on things above, and reach an actual higher life. We shall know more of what it is to live by Christ, in Christ, for Christ, and with Christ, till we reach the marvelous light around the throne in glory.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Easter, Heart, Humble

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• An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Way, Social

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• Hatred is the atmosphere of hell.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Hate, Hatred, Hell

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.121

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• It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.

  Lance Berkman

  Funny, Softball, Kind

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• Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.

  Franco Harris

  Attitude, Victory, Helping

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• There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."

  H. Emilie Cady

  Gratitude, Doubt, Mind

  H. Emilie Cady (2016). “The Collected Works of H. Emilie Cady: Spiritual Guidance Books & New Thought Classics: Lessons In Truth - Practical Christianity Course + How I Used Truth & God + A Present Help”, p.71, e-artnow

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• All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Blessed, Writing, Creativity

  "Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, 1980.

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