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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Laughter, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As actors and actresses, we must rejoice in the possession of our physical faculties. We must experience joy in the use of our hands, arms, body etc. Without this appreciation and realization of the body and its many possibilities, we cannot perform as artists
  You should feel a flow of joy because you are alive. Your body will feel full of life. That is what you must give from the stage. Your life. No less. That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life-nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being.

  Michael Chekhov

  Appreciation, Art, Mean

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• I had a nice dinner. I let the evening unfold, flow. I like to sit in a chair with a wine glass. When I woke up, I thought, 'Why didn't I go to bed at 11?' I came back at 3 and went to bed at 5.

  Roger Federer

  Nice, Wine, Glasses

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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• I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Law, Special

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• As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practical problems.

  Vannevar Bush

  Long, May, Problem

  United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Vannevar Bush (1945). “Science, the endless frontier: A report to the President”, p.7

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• I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

  Mike Tyson

  Suicide, Fun, Real

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in the cinema and this white shining point opens up for us, our gaze stops flitting hither and thither, settles and becomes quite steady. We just sit there, letting the images flow out over us. Our will ceases to function. We lose our ability to sort things out and fix them in their proper places. We're drawn into a course of events–we're participants in a dream. And manufacturing dreams, that's a juicy business.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, White

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• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Money, Wall, War

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• We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Rivers, Water, Pieces

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• There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

  James Joyce

  Past, Eternal

  Said to Jacques Mercanton on the structure of Ulysses. "James Joyce: The Critical Heritage". Book by Robert H. Deming, p. 22, 1997.

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• An absolute
  patience.
  Trees stand
  up to their knees in
  fog. The fog
  slowly flows
  uphill.
  White
  cobwebs, the grass
  leaning where deer
  have looked for apples.
  The woods
  from brook to where
  the top of the hill looks
  over the fog, send up
  not one bird.
  So absolute, it is
  no other than
  happiness itself, a breathing
  too quiet to hear.

  Denise Levertov

  Fog, Breathing, White

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• Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Water, Steps

  "Fragments (Fragment 12)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

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• Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

  Heraclitus

  Rivers, Water, Steps

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Cities, Trying

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Years, Long, World

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• Happiness is a good flow of life.

  Zeno of Citium

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• Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words. Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn't have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God's intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?

  C. J. Mahaney

  Faith, Christian, Book

  C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.57, Multnomah

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• It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

  Christina Perri

  Christmas, Song, Writing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Running, Wall, Believe

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• Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Children, Hero, Blood

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• All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them. The Master is above the people, and no one feels oppressed. She goes ahead of the people, and no one feels manipulated. The whole world is grateful to her. Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Grateful, Humility

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• Oh! where does faithful Gélert roam, The flow'r of all his race? So true, so brave; a lamb at home, A lion in the chase.

  William Spencer

  Faith, Home, Race

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• I have seen
  A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
  Of inland ground, applying to his ear
  The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell;
  To which, in silence hushed, his very soul
  listened intensely; for from within were heard
  Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed
  Mysterious union with its native sea.
  Even such a shell the universe itself
  Is to the ear of faith; and there are times,
  I doubt not, when to you it doth impart
  Authentic tidings of invisible things,
  Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power,
  And central peace, subsisting at the heart
  Of endless Agitation.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Heart, Sea

  "The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Excursion".

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• Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pregnancy, Ebb And Flow, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 27, 2015

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