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• I was ordered to go for flowers, that my mistress's house might be decorated for an evening party. I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a mile of me. What cared my owners for that? he was merely a piece of property. Moreover, they thought he had spoiled his children, by teaching them to feel that they were human beings. This was blasphemous doctrine for a slave to teach; presumptuous in him, and dangerous to the masters.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Children, Lying, Father

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2015). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist”, p.18, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wool, Ass, Forgetfulness

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Men, Indulge In, Alcohol

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• It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Air, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.90, Graphic Arts Books

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• We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... .
  This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Voice, America, New Day

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• The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

  Johan Huizinga

  Music, Sports, Fashion

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• In America most orthodox Christians become defensive or testy when they are asked even to break into a sweat. Most of our efforts up until now have been more symbolic than anything else. We are great at holding conventions, gathering for strategy meetings and seminars, holding congresses on evangelism. But where are the people to run our own antidefamation league?

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Running, Religious

  Cal Thomas (1983). “Book burning”, Good News Pub

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• The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

  Maureen Dowd

  Years, Holocaust, Religion

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• [I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

  Jennifer Egan

  Crowds, May, Moments

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.271, Anchor

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• Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Church, Claims

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2016

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• In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

  Frank Bruni

  People, Perfect, Together

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• War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Intelligence Gathering

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Hunting, Light

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Religious, Men, Church

  Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.423, Northwestern University Press

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• Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

  James D. Watson

  Mind, Horizon, Enabling

  James D. Watson (2007). “Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science”, p.324, OUP Oxford

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• I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

  Gemma Files

  Book, Creepy, Fascination

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Well, when people talk about interrogating terrorists, they're acting like this is some sort of law enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial, and convict them. Anti-terrorism is about finding out information to prevent a future attack so the same tactics do not apply.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, People, Acting

  Marco Rubio's speech at the eighth Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at the St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.cbsnews.com. February 6, 2016.

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• Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

  Missy Mazzoli

  Artist, Data, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I truly value the cinema experience, the tribal gathering in the dark to watch something larger than life. I like to sit in the first row with no heads in front of mine, and become one with the screen. I always stay for the complete credits so I can linger in the film's story just a little longer.

  Pamela Yates

  Dark, Watches, Cinema

  "LatinoBuzz: Pamela Yates on How Her Documentary Helped Jail a Guatemalan Dictator for Genocide" by Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2013.

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• I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

  Gwen Ifill

  Fighting, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Twitter and Facebook are brilliant- tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

  Bill Keller

  Interesting, Tools, Use

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• Surely, it is only when the mind is creatively empty that it is capable of finding out whether there is an ultimate reality or not. But, the mind is never creatively empty; it is always acquiring, always gathering, living on the past or in the future, or trying to be focused in the immediate present: it is never in that state of creativeness in which a new thing can take place. As the mind is a result of time, it cannot possibly understand that which is timeless, eternal.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Past, Reality, Mind

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• If a couple has their picture taken at a wedding or other social gathering, and the woman looks hot, her guy could be blinking, chewing, or even mid-sneeze, and she’ll still display it on her desk at work.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Couple, Taken, Guy

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• Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Character, Mean

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