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• Mistakes are very seldom permanent, most of them can be fixed with less difficulty and drama than one imagines, and there's nothing shameful about them. There is, however, something sad and limiting about the fear of making them.

  Peter Buffett

  Drama, Mistake, Imagine

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• Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay atall. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Religion, Towers

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• The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eggs, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.106, Penguin

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• The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Errors, Long

  "The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, (p. 17), 1963.

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• I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Punishment, Essentials, Judgment

  "King v. Harris". 1797.

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• Normal is enormously susceptible to swinging with the gusts of politics and history. Disguised as scientific and fixed, it is subjective and protean. That is why I used the word normative above, a term derived from statistics, simply meaning what most people do.

  Adam Levine

  People, Statistics, Normal

  "Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex". Book by Judith Levine, 2003.

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• Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Squares, Light

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Beautiful, Women, Flower

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• Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.

  Anna Brackett

  Taken, Home, Doe

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• Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Country, Law, Liberty

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• Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Heart, Punishment

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• A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly felt at the time, may be transitory. A letter captures the mood of the moment. The transitory becomes immutably fixed, part of the evidence for the prosecution or the defence.

  P. D. James

  Prejudice, Letters, May

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.85, Vintage

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• The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Moving, Law

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Stars, Cosmos

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

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• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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• Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Death, Men, Usual

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• An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

  F. H. Bradley

  Aphorism, Genuine, Impression

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• Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Book, Mirrors, Dust

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• We rarely use much debt and, when we do, we attempt to structure it on a long-term fixed rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, depositors, lenders and the many equity holders who have committed unusually large portions of their net worth to our care.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Interesting, Long

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• If you want to experience abundance, then don't choose a path that ensures scarcity or limitation. Choose a path that has a shot of leading to prosperity. Say no to non-prosperous choices like a job with a fixed paycheck.

  Steve Pavlina

  Jobs, Choices, Path

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• The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Self, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.8, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Disappointment, Book, Ideas

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• The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Writing, Independent, Numbers

  "Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications". Book by David E. Y. Sarna, 2010.

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• As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

  Dean Koontz

  Law, Play, Lines

  "Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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