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• Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

  Tom Vanderbilt

  Interesting, Attention, Psychological

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• Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Heaven, Arise

  Sir Isaac Newton (1782). “Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia”, p.234

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• Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.

  Aaron McGruder

  Smart, Energetic, Very Smart

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• Honestly, live is my favorite way of performing. Every show is a completely different energy. With recording, it's not really as organic as it can be. But I feel like I'm a lot more fluid, and I can be a little bit more aggressive.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Energy, Different, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

  Jamais Cascio

  Skills, People, Looks

  "Google isn't making us dumb - or smart. That's the problem" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

  Edward Weston

  Courage, Dare, Irrational

  Edward Weston (1988). “Edward Weston”

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• As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Perfect, Events

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• Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It's got some gigantic missing pieces.

  Ben Stein

  Missing, Principles, Pieces

  "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty, transcripts.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate and fixed reality - earth becoming fluid as the sea itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Eye, Reality, Sea

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• If one is enlightened, one does not perceive life with North, South, East and West. There is no California, there is no New York. In a higher bonding state of attention, everything is fluid light.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Light, California

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• When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Fighting, Thinking, Mma

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• Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.

  George Packer

  Goal, Identity, Amazon

  "Amazon's Bold Plan to Start a Last-Place TV Network" by Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. March 28, 2014.

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• What we think of as physical reality is an intermingling of appropriate realities, a fluid massive consciousness in which each of us exists independently of each other and yet coexists interdependently with each other.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Thinking, Consciousness

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Apr 17, 2015

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• With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises. Fluid prose, gore galore and all-too human characters make this unusual, fast-paced novella a must for fans who like their horror served blood-rare.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Butterfly, Character, Blood

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• See your life as not just your life but as eternity. Be so completely integrated in the experience of perception that there's no sense of a perceiver but just the fluid moment of ecstasy that is reality unfolding itself to itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Perception

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• Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs to jelly, and produces a palsy of the upper limbs.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Water, Jelly

  Peter Dobereiner (1973). “The glorious world of golf”

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• I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Memories, Fall, Writing

  "Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com.

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• Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

  Susan Sontag

  Life, Moving, Able

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• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

  Ezra Pound

  Imagination, Brain, Suspense

  Ezra Pound (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)”, p.1208, Delphi Classics

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• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

  Adrienne Rich

  Ocean, Moon, Monsters

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• In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of both water and blood – the sacred fluids of the early religions. The second is the concept of periodic rebirth, symbolized by the moon’s monthly waning and renewal. The third is the notion of continually repeating cycles of change.

  Layne Redmond

  Moon, Blood, Civilization

  Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”

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• Geologists claim that although the world is running out of oil, there is still a 200-hundred-year supply of brake fluid.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Running, Years

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• Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

  Robert H. Meltzer

  Maintaining, Appearance, Embalming

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• Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative

  Shannon Lee

  Needs, World, More Time

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• Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

  Michael Faraday

  Science, Ideas, Two

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