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• The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Block, Cities, Two

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• The steady states of the fluid matrix of the body are commonly preserved by physiological reactions, i.e., by more complicated processes than are involved in simple physico-chemical equilibria. Special designations, therefore, are appropriate:—“homeostasis” to designate stability of the organism; “homeostatic conditions,” to indicate details of the stability; and “homeostatic reactions,” to signify means for maintaining stability.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Mean, Simple, Special

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• A man of about fifty-four years of age, had begun, five or six months before, to be somewhat emaciated in his whole body...a troublesome vomiting came on, of a fluid which resembl’d water, tinctur’d with soot.... Death took place.... In the stomach...was an ulcerated cancerous tumour.... Betwixt the stomach and the spleen were two glandular bodies, of the bigness of a bean, and in their colour, and substance, not much unlike that tumour which I have describ’d in the stomach.

  Giovanni Battista Morgagni

  Death, Men, Years

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• I've gotten much better at multi-tasking. It's hard, though. But, writing a script is not totally focused. You're taking little breaks, all the time. If a kid runs in, you give 'em a horsey ride. It's a pretty fluid process.

  Matt Damon

  Running, Kids, Writing

  "Matt Damon Talks PROMISED LAND, Getting Gus Van Sant to Direct, the BOURNE Franchise, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. January 2, 2013.

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• All around the world, there are children wishing they had some cool sneakers like you do. But before you decide to give them your old pair, they'd first like a decent meal, some fluid, and some medication so they can walk comfortably in your shoes.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Sneakers, Shoes

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• Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's amazing how fluid the software makes the process. I genuinely think this is the biggest software advance for writers since the word processor.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Couple, Thinking, Two

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• No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.

  Tiger Woods

  Games, Hours In The Day, Done

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• The vast Pacific ocean would always remain the islanders' great solace, escape and nourishment, the amniotic fluid that would keep them hedonistic and aloof, guarded, gentle and mysterious.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Ocean, Hawaii, Mysterious

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1972). “Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress”

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• The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Body, Earth, Spirit

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.313, Penguin

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• There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Play, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done a ton of editing and refining and rewriting. When I write novels, I always make related scrapbooks to help me organize and test my intentions.

  Dennis Cooper

  Writing, Editing, Long

  "Go Forth (Vol.19)". Interview with Brandon Hobson and Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2013.

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• The underlying idea is that you can prevent disease by balancing your body's pH... None of these claims are true. Furthermore, your body needs absolutely no help in adjusting its pH. Normally, the pH of blood and most body fluids is near seven, which is close to neutral. This is under very tight biological control because all of the chemical reactions that maintain life depend on it. Unless you have serious respiratory or kidney problems, body pH will remain in balance no matter what you eat or drink.

  Andrew Weil

  Blood, Ideas, Balance

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• True Shandeism, think what you will against it, opens the heart and lungs, and like all those affections which partake of its nature, it forces the blood and other vital fluids of the body to run freely thro' its channels, and makes the wheel of life run long and chearfully round.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Health, Heart

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 4, ch. 32

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• They just teach by their presence. They don't really have a message for humanity. It's irrelevant at that point. They're just a fluid, perfect embodiment of what we call the dharmakaya or the enlightenment of nirvana .

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Perfect, Humanity

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  Golf is fluid. It's always changing. It's always evolving. First of all, you never master it.

  Tiger Woods

  Golf, Firsts, Masters

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

  Anne Lamott

  Teeth, Tape, Pouring

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.22, Anchor

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• Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

  Isaac Newton

  Art, Philosophy, Design

  Sir Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, N. W. Chittenden (1850). “Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.66

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• Sometimes when you have an abundance of time and money, it's less conducive to the creative process. I like the urgency of the television schedule and the television price point. It's fluid. You figure it out on the day, and I love the challenge of problem-solving.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Creative, Challenges, Schedules

  Source: collider.com

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• Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

  Wayne Muller

  Self, Balance, Different

  Wayne Muller (2013). “How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives”, p.20, Bantam

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• We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.

  Victoria Chang

  Hierarchy, Crushed, Feels

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Data, Two, Doctrine

  James Clerk Maxwell (1873). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.38

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• The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

  Kevin Drew

  Singing, Sound, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In weightlessness, one of the physiological changes is a fluid shift. Your blood and fluid is equally distributed in your body. So that makes your calves and thighs and waist skinnier, and it makes your chest and women's breasts broader. The downside is your face is kind of puffy

  Mike Mullane

  Blood, Body, Faces

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.

  Roger Bacon

  Air, Space, Water

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