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• Chess is a good way to learn, to keep your brain fit and the ego in check, a mental form of your local gymnasium. Those who see chess merely as a means of self-proof make the game experience uncomfortable and drive many of the better, more sensitive brains to analysis, correspondence, problems, studies and the like.

  Peter Abelard

  Mean, Self, Games

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• In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!

  Bart D. Ehrman

  Christian, Jesus, Zero

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• There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

  Joseph Butler

  Hair, World, Moral

  Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax (1848). “The Works of ... Joseph Butler ... to which is Prefixed: Sermons. Correspondence between Dr. Butler and Dr. Clarke”, p.21

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• There were events that stuck in my mind. One, for example, was the case of the missing palace seal at the beginning of winter.’ ‘Oh the poor animal,’ she cried out, ‘they’re such beautiful creatures.’ ‘I’m speaking of the royal seal placed on correspondence, as you would know,’ he said.

  Melina Marchetta

  Beautiful, Winter, Animal

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• People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Dream, Healing, People

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.79, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Utterance, Spirit

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Healing, Order, Soul

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.22, Penguin

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• There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Moon, Dragons, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritorious demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Retirement, Independent, Presidential

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• A third felicity of age is that it has found expression. The youth suffers not only from ungratified desires, but from powers untried, and from a picture in his mind of a career which has as yet no outward reality. He is tormented with the want of correspondence between things and thoughts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reality, Careers, Expression

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don’t understand it. Thnk of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words-not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another! Is not that something of a miracle?

  William Crookes

  Mean, Thinking, Should Have

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• Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written for posterity, was too important to risk by being too candid with one another.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Risk, Important, Provocative

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Here And Now, Contact

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

  John Maxwell Hamilton

  Class, Elements, Half

  "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.

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• Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc.

  LaVell Edwards

  Summer, School, Night

  Source: universe.byu.edu

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• When I speak to students, I tell them why we have a First Amendment. I tell them about the Committees of Correspondence. I tell them how in a secret meeting of the Raleigh Tavern in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, who did not agree with each other, started a Committee of Correspondence.

  Nat Hentoff

  Virginia, Secret, Taverns

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Two, Lines, Common

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

  Seth Godin

  Iphone, Data, Doing Your Best

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• In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Numbers, Office, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.416, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

  Vaginal Davis

  Writing, School, Flying

  "Let Her Teach You: Questions For Vaginal Davis". Interview with Alex Gartenfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 23, 2010.

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• I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

  Nat Hentoff

  Party, Son, Boston

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.

  Helene Grimaud

  Art, Inspiration, Different

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.

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• I was in correspondence with an anonymous source for about five months and in the process of developing a dialogue you build ideas, of course, about who that person might be. My idea was that he was in his late forties, early fifties. I figured he must be Internet generation because he was super tech-savvy, but I thought that, given the level of access and information he was able to discuss, he had to be older.

  Laura Poitras

  Ideas, Generations, Levels

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• I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like. I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That's enough for me.

  Alan Lightman

  New York, Lunch, Enough

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• When you look at what has happened over the last few decades the natural fluctuations point in the opposite direction of what has actually occurred. When they run the models and plug in the man-made pollution, the correspondence is exact. Beyond that, the scale of natural fluctuations has now been far exceeded by the impact of man-made global warming.

  Al Gore

  Running, Men, Impact

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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