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• The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

  Atle Selberg

  Ideas, Way, Ends

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• Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Photography, Powerful, Mean

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• After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

  Albert Hadley

  Design, Finals, Enhancement

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• Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use
  this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until
  now.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Ideas, Technique, Use

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• For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

  Edward Feser

  Mind, Doe, Reason

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• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Memories, Believe

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• Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.

  Grover Norquist

  Running, Animal, House

  "Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift" by Digby, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

  Dennis Hastert

  Welfare Programs, People, Promise

  "Transcript: House Speaker Dennis Hastert". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy, It is a rule, like the Rule of St Benedict.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Philosophy, Two, Skulls

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, People, Purpose

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• The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled - frustration arises, failure arises, and you feel neglected, as if existence does not care for you. Drop expectations for the future. Remain open, remain available to whatsoever happens, but don't plan ahead. Don't make any psychological, fixed ideas about the future - that things should be like this - and much more suffering will disappear.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Frustration, Ideas

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• There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, Heart, Arrows

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

  DeForest Soaries

  Inspirational, Basketball, Growing Up

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• There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.

  John Dewey

  Education, Law, Soul

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• You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't hers at all: it lay in language. Every language assumes a centrality, a fixed and settled point to go away from and come back to, and what my grandmother was looking for was a word for a journey which was not a coming or a going at all; a journey that was a search for precisely that fixed point which permits the proper use of verbs of movement.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Grandmother, Journey, Going Away

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• Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

  Carl Rogers

  Process

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no fixed points in space.

  Merce Cunningham

  Space

  Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Lesschaeve (1985). “The Dancer and the Dance”, Marion Boyars

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• The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of 'how to do'. The salvation of photography comes from the experiment.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Photography, Enemy, Salvation

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• Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

  Willem de Kooning

  Littles, Form, Said

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• I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Car, Political, Machinery

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• Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

  David Lehman

  Orbit, Fields, Used

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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• I give it as my fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country and a peace without the loss of a single battle or skirmish.

  Winfield Scott

  Country, War, Fall

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• I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz.

  Christopher Columbus

  Country, Kings, Queens

  Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, Oct. 1500

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• The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Ideas, Degrees, Limits

  "The Physiology of Taste".

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• The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

  Horace

  Wall, Greed, Want

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