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• The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Years, Political

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, 80s And 90s, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting into my teen years, I was filled with so much shame and pain that I got really involved with drugs and alcohol. I was hanging out with the wrong people and getting involved in the wrong relationships and everything just sort of spun out of control.

  Pattie Mallette

  Pain, Years, People

  "Justin Bieber's Mom Has Her Own Story To Tell". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I remember, with the third [Twilight] movie, when we went to Munich and the entire Olympic stadium was filled with fans. We walked in there and did nothing.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Fans, Munich

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

  Jesse McCartney

  Swimming, Peanut Butter, Pool

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• I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Thinking, Water, Heaven

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.103

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• I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.

  Max Gluckman

  Enemy, Social, Conscious

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• Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

  Ursus Wehrli

  Long, Simplicity, Decision

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• Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

  Walter Mosley

  Good Day, Wake Up, Chance

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.131, Black Classic Press

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• Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither built nor filled by atheists.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2204, Delphi Classics

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• Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.

  Eva Figes

  Fashion, Strong, Queens

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• Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.433, Modern Library

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• I love festivals because they seem like more of an artsy, supportive attitude - which benefits a more theatrical performer sometimes with having theater and other non-club venues, as well as the audience being filled with other artists. It's nice to be with other comics, as usually at other road gigs, I'm solo for the most part.

  Maria Bamford

  Attitude, Nice, Artist

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• Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

  Nicole Krauss

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

  Socrates

  Moving, Mean, Abiding

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth,
  like an empty cradle waiting to be filled.
  And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth,
  like a mother breathing life into her child.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Mother, Morning, Children

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• We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Thinking, Sea, Space

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “Voices from the Sky”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophical, Boys, Men

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• The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Direct Action, Space

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.237, Penguin

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• Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Water, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 622), 1895.

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• As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Jesus, Children

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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• Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Joy, Childhood

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• Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Gestures, Empty, Full Life

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• Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Raindrops, Jars

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• The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Brother, Grief, Loss

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.8801, Delphi Classics

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