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• Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

  Frans de Waal

  Distance, Eye, Fighting

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• It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces.

  Frans de Waal

  Leopards, Apes, Spontaneous

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• If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love You, Kissing, Doors

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• With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Wall, Flower

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• It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

  Ellen G. White

  Religious, Humanity, Privilege

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing - Illustrated”, p.70, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Travel, Memorable

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• ...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

  Patti Smith

  Letting Go, Sadness, Garden

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• Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

  Terry Goodkind

  People, Effort, Risk

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Chainfire”, p.85, Macmillan

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• Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

  Gary Hamel

  Resilience, Becoming, Paradox

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• Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.

  Beverly Lewis

  Blessed, Heart, Rights

  Beverly Lewis (2016). “The Abram's Daughters Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.589, Baker Books

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life.

  Gay Hendricks

  Attitude, Moving, Loving Life

  Gay Hendricks (2010). “Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True”, p.131, New World Library

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• Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Ideas, Support Systems

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

  Junot Diaz

  Light, House, World

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.306, Faber & Faber

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• she wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of since adolescence.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Adolescence, Wanted

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

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• Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Academic, Life Without Music, Music Is

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• Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

  Octavio Paz

  Soul, Desire, Noble

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• For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

  Virginia Woolf

  Swings, People, Dawn

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.972, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  People, Ideology, Wholeheartedly

  "The Neutronium Alchemist". Book by Peter F. Hamilton, 1997.

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• Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

  Anita Shreve

  Sweet, Memories, Kissing

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• [She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Giving, World

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.1149, Xist Publishing

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• In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

  George Washington

  War, Simple, Justice

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• She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Overwhelming Desire, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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