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• The president stands between the twin mirrors of the past and future, causing his being to become reflected an infinite amount of times. At first, this can be very disorienting. But it induces the president to move quickly. He may, for example, mimic a wave with his arms in order to see how his actions extend across this mirroring of time, observing if the figure at the end acts at the same instant as the figure before him, and so on and so forth.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Moving, Past, Mirrors

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• How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots of unspeakable ferocity capable of overturning in an instant the tranquil and productive life of a people.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Productive Life

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• The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.

  Ruth Rudner

  Butterfly, Joy, Let It Go

  Ruth Rudner (1978). “Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rivers, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.93, Xist Publishing

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• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

  Jose Rizal

  Ocean, Light, Ideas

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Here And Now, Contact

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

  Squidward Tentacles

  Fate, Long, Giving

  "Fictional character: Squidward Tentacles". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm/Squid on Strike", 2001), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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• The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a deep lake and I didn't know how to swim, I would become highly motivated in an instant. Climbing from the lake would mean more to me than anything else in the world. My effort would be no less than astounding and I would suddenly become one of the most excited and enthusiastic persons imaginable.

  Steve Goodier

  Mean, Lakes, Climbing

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• The [film] industry, from the franchise on, has dramatically changed, not just with us, but with social networking. The social working has changed dramatically, especially in the way you promote films. It's instant.

  Tara Reid

  Way, Networking, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Character, People

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• I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

  Bonnie McKee

  House, Fans, Saws

  "Bonnie McKee, the Writer Behind Your Fave Katy Perry Songs, Talks Going Solo, Writing "Roar," and More". Interview With Mickey Woods, www.glamour.com. October 23, 2013.

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• You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.

  Alicia Keys

  Looks, Granted, Hard

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• What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

  Ivan Turgenev

  First Love, Rising Up, Phantoms

  Ivan Turgenev (2012). “First Love and the Diary of a Superfluous Man”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

  Mel Gibson

  Liars, Lying, Blessed

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I learned early Jack Kirby favorite movies were the Warner Brothers from the '30s. When you look at Jack Kirby's comic books, or at least when I do, I can make an instant connection. When he said he loved those movies it was like, "Of course."

  Mike Royer

  Brother, Book, Connections

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Art, Trying, Stuff

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.

  John Lennox

  Christian, Giving, Culture

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Oatmeal

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• You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling. It has been around for thousands of years. And that's where something like live theater or a live performance is something that is very valuable because you get instant feedback from your audience and you kind of know the things that work and the things that don't work.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode.

  Emmett Shear

  Detectives, Should, Knows

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• In any event, I don't believe in instant philosophy, because interesting problems take a long time to understand and work out. Just think of the problems of truth and justice.

  Mario Bunge

  Philosophy, Believe, Thinking

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• People want everything to come out of a drive thru window. They want it instant and they want it fast. I succumb to that, we all succumb to that. We're in it. That's the culture. So the enemy, the powers that be, the manipulators behind the scenes play to our natural weaknesses.

  Alex Jones

  Play, People, Enemy

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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• This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine.

  Patrick Süskind

  Smell, Creating, World

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