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• Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, Nightmare, Beijing

  "Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City". www.newsweek.com. August 28, 2011.

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• Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.

  Jaron Lanier

  Doors, Empty Rooms, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.180, Vintage

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• The energy of the universe is constant.

  Rudolf Clausius

  Energy, Entropy, Universe

  "Ueber Verschiedene fur die Anwendung Bequeme Formen der Hauptgleichungen der Mechanischen Warmetheorie" (1865).

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• John was in constant need of proof of love and security and he was constantly testing people for that proof.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Proof Of Love, People, Needs

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• I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for reflection or for the discharge of any other then the most immediate and pressing concerns.

  Edward Rutledge

  Real, Reflection, Evil

  "John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina". Book by James Haw, p. 233, 1997.

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• Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

  Josef Pieper

  Men, Justice, Habit

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

  David Whyte

  Ocean, Breathing, Feet

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• Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

  Kim Edwards

  Writing, Discovery, Events

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• They want politics and think it will save them. At best, it gives direction to their numbed desires. But there is no politics but the manipulation of power through language. Thus the latter’s constant debasement.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Thinking, Giving, Desire

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1973). “Splendide-Hotel: Meditation on Rimbaud”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

  Chanakya

  Horse, Husband, Men

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• All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

  Edith Schaeffer

  Art, Book, Writing

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.And time sings.

  Vera Nazarian

  Running, Children, Men

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• I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature. Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the host environment in mind. The mycelium stays in constant molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.

  Paul Stamets

  Nature, Believe, Communication

  Paul Stamets (2011). “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”, p.21, Ten Speed Press

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• Mobile isn’t just a media channel, it’s her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.

  Tina Sharkey

  Mom, Media, Easier

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• The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  True Friend, Black, Dresses

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• Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

  Robert Jensen

  Hurt, Men, Differences

  Robert Jensen (2007). “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”

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• The only thing that is constant is change.

  Heraclitus

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• The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Sadness, Insecure, Effort

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• Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Disappointment, Ambition, Life Is

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• Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

  Karl Marx

  Animal, Men, Delight

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.

  Anodea Judith

  Consistency, Expansion, Flow

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• Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.

  Paul Fussell

  Strong, Military, Discipline

  "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998.

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• One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Alternatives, Elements, Eras

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2009). “The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I; Barbara W. Tuchman's Great War Series”, p.27, Random House

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• I am in a constant state of surprise these days. Actually, now that I calculate, I've been betrothed only one full day, but it seems like my whole life has come into being in the last twenty-four hours. Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Lasts

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• Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product. The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics. It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head!

  RuPaul

  Ideas, Agency, Drug

  "You Better Werk! 10 Life Lessons From RuPaul In (Mostly) Gif Form". madamenoire.com. July 31, 2013.

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