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• If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Fighting, Artist, Men

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• The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the vibrant radiance of a wide-open landscape. The realism of humanity down to its dirty nails and rotten wounds combined with the fleeting sanguinity of the moment.

  Ella Leya

  Dirty, Humanity, Shadow

  Ella Leya (2015). “Orphan Sky”, p.131, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.

  Bobby Sager

  World, Afar, Helping

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• If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.

  Saadi

  Contentment, Treasure, Riches

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• That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Imagination, Littles

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• Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Doors, Meditation, Relaxation

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• My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to me from him, and for the first time his death seemed, even at its immense stellar remove of impossibility, a grave and dreadful threat.

  John Updike

  Father, Fall, Clothes

  John Updike (1963). “The Centaur”, Ballantine Books

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• The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Loss, Carpe Diem, Moments

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Optimistic, Doctors

  1910 Misalliance, preface.

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• Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sleep, Choices, Bed

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• An empire is an immense egotism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Empires, Egotism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Miscellanies: embracing Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.364

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• Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Men, Comprehension

  Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 March (1949)

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• It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

  Edward E. Barnard

  Mean, Men, Clouds

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• Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

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• Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make their revolutions or describe new orbits, and man, an infinitely minute part of a globe which itself is only an imperceptible point in the immense whole, believes that the universe is made for himself.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Believe, Men, Sky

  "The Enlightenment". Book by Norman Hampson, 1968.

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• What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Peace, War, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Easyread Edition”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Simple, Men

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• The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Life, Death, Sacrifice

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• The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations, and steers resolutely toward bankruptcy.

  Peter Kropotkin

  People, Liberty, Income

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Business, Children

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• I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Beautiful, Cheating, Peace

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• I can say, if I like, that social insects behave like the working parts of an immense central nervous system: the termite colony is an enormous brain on millions of legs; the individual termite is a mobile neurone.

  Lewis Thomas

  Hard Work, Science, Brain

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Men, Rights, Wish

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

  Ovid

  Love, Giving, Glory

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