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• and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

  Madeline Miller

  Lakes, Oil, Smooth

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• A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Morning, Heart, Cutting

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• The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it already is, and flows steadily forth from up the canyon, a fountain of rumors from regions known to it and not to me.

  John Daniel

  Rivers, Rumor, Environmental

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.67, Counterpoint

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• Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.

  Kim Hyesoon

  World, Language, Boundaries

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Strong, Compassion, Rocks

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• Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fun, Heart, Space Flight

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  May, Kind, Electricity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.382

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• I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

  Carl Rogers

  Emotional, Confusion, Pay

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• Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Like translation itself, Asymptote is a fluid web reaching out to all sides, bringing texts and readers together, through the most improbable and marvelous of connections.

  Jonathan Littell

  Together, Connections, Sides

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• A young child's brain has a thinner skull and the brain contains more fluid. The more fluid or fat in any material, the more it absorbs microwave radiation.

  Devra Davis

  Children, Skulls, Brain

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

  Christopher Vogler

  Two, Stories, Body

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• So sometimes it is an outright manipulation like that, but most of the time I'm just, I'm creating a mood that is a place of comfort for the person and a way for our dialogue to be more fluid.

  Carol Friedman

  Creating, Comfort, Way

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Each metal has a certain power, which is different from metal to metal, of setting the electric fluid in motion.

  Alessandro Volta

  Science, Differences, Different

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• Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world.

  Laozi

  Simple, Thinking, Meditation

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

  Agnes Repplier

  History, Ifs

  Agnes Repplier (1920). “Points of Friction”

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• Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

  Hosea Ballou

  Fire, Envy, Soul

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• He rose to his feet in one fluid move, the better to look down at me. “You don’t know me, princess. Some people have reasons for doing things, and don’t just go wherever they’re told or drift whichever way they’re pushed.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Moving, Princess, Feet

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• When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

  Charlaine Harris

  Broken, Skins, Together

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.741, Penguin

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• Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.

  Joan Larkin

  Roots, Sound, Different

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Dancer, Movement, Gestures

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.30, Harlequin

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• Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it. ... pain will always either change or stop. Always. ... The confidence that it will change is what makes bearing it possible. So pain is fluid. It is only when you conceive of it as something static that it is unbearable.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Important, Unbearable

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.

  Sue Grafton

  Pieces, Paper, Liquid

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• My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Space, Soar

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• When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

  Christina Stead

  Money, People, Gold

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.245, Open Road Media

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