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• Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Self, Support

  Deepak Chopra (2014). “What Are You Hungry For?: The Chopra Solution to Permanent Weight Loss, Well-Being and Lightness of Soul”, p.233, Random House

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• If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him.

  Malcolm X

  Dog, Men, Two

  "Malcolm X: Make It Plain". "The American Experience", PBS, season 6, episode 6, January 26, 1994.

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• Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Order, Preserves

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• Where the greater malady is fixed,
  The lesser is scarce felt.

  William Shakespeare

  Suffering, Malady, Scarce

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• There is something new in the air. There is, there is a - a hunger for an open, non-dogmatic, form of Christian faith and practice, which adapts itself to a rapidly changing world; and speaks to that world the message of Jesus Christ. And a freedom to rediscover some of the language of the tradition now that's it's not handed down to us, you know, with a strict framework of doctrinal, fixed structures.

  Philip Clayton

  Christian, Jesus, Air

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• If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.

  Heath Ledger

  Mean, Mirrors, And Love

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society is based on both a politics and history that have been disguised as a solid society of solid male poems, a solid written language, fixed rules of how to write literature, and a narrative language.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Writing, Perspective, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

  Jonny Lang

  Ideas, Compromise, Firm

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• Prophets and artists tend to be liminal and marginal people, "edgemen," who strive with a passionate sincerity to rid themselves of the clichés associated with status incumbency and role-playing and to enter into vital relations with other men in fact or imagination. In their productions we may catch glimpses of that unused evolutionary potential in mankind which has not yet been externalized and fixed in structure.

  Victor Turner

  Men, Artist, People

  Victor Turner (1995). “The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure”, p.128, Transaction Publishers

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• People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

  John Cage

  Two, People, Attention

  "John Cage: An Autobiographical Statement". www.johncage.org. April 17, 1990.

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• The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

  William James

  Principles, Adequacy, Facts

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• Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Eye, People, Reason

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• Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply from one decision to another.

  Jules Henry

  Attitude, Thinking, Decision

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• It was reported today that the machine on board the International Space Station that turns urine into drinking water has been fixed. After hearing this, an astronaut said, 'Wait. You mean that wasn't lemon Tang?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Drinking, Mean, Space

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• If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Objects, Ifs

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• Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

  Emmet Fox

  Destiny, Mold, Matter

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• I want to emphasis again, Governor (Thomas) Kean and Congressman (Lee) Hamilton pointed out that congressional oversight also was a major contributor to our failures prior to 9/11 and that has to be fixed as well.

  John McCain

  Want, Hamilton, Emphasis

  "Senate bill would implement 9/11 panel proposals" by Ted Barrett, www.cnn.com. September 8, 2004.

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• The heroic minute.- It is the time fixed for getting up.- Without hesitation: a supernatural reflection and.-.-.- up! The heroic minute: here you have a mortification that strengthens your will and does no harm to your body.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Reflection, Doe, Body

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• We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Perception, World, Fields

  Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.109, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Imagination, Political

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.41, Canongate Books

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• Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

  Virender Sehwag

  Retirement, Jobs, Player

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• What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a fixed process, and I think it creates a very important challenge. It creates a way of writing that is, in a way, flatter or smooth, a surface conducive to release, to movement. And in this way, the form of writing gets delightfully melded with the process of the writing.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Fall, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

  Norman Lock

  Reading, Writing, Comforting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super fixed idea about abortion. I'd helped a high school friend get to a doctor once. I always assumed that what a woman did was up to her. But I could also see the pro-life point of view that human life should be sacred in whatever gestational form.

  John H Richardson

  School, Views, Ideas

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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