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• Simple design, intense content.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Design, Consciousness

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• However you look at it, in these books "power" tends to be an expression of the essential nature of the person or being whose power it is. On those occasions when we've seen Lord Foul act directly, he seems to exert the withering force of pure scorn. IMHO, that's pretty intense.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Hate, Book, Expression

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• But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

  Royden G. Derrick

  Loyalty, Truth, Integrity

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• In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Dog, Strong, Grief

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• Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

  Neil Simon

  Success, Sports, Passion

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• It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

  Eva Ibbotson

  Summer, Flower, Air

  "A Song for Summer".

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• An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.

  Herman Melville

  Sunset, Sea, Yellow

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.346, Velvet Element Books

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• Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Looks, Paws

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• That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

  Donald James

  Mean, Cat, Understanding

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• Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Passion, Creating, Excitement

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

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• The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: 'Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread' (1 Cor 10:17, RSV). Because of this vital link with the sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the mystery of the Church is savored, proclaimed, and lived supremely in the Eucharist.

  Pope John Paul II

  Reality, Blood, Expression

  Pope John Paul II (2000). “Celebrate the Third Millennium: Facing the Future with Hope”, G K Hall & Company

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• Every time you make the right choice in the face of potential criticism you build strength that makes choosing the right easier the next time. When you make it clear that you will not vary from your standards, you will be led to individuals like yourself and the criticism from others will become less intense.

  Richard G. Scott

  Choices, Criticism, Next

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• The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Hands, Paper

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

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• When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Inspirational Life, Love Is, Over You

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• But the people of the disaster area fundamentally needed to understand that the rest of Australia had noticed their misery and their stoicism and their intense sense of community and determination to arise from the sodden wreckage of their homes, and that Australians would dig deep to help. I helped to describe the community ethos which quickly triumphed over incipient despair. It is this mobilisation of the unifying spirit that thrills us all, even as we mourn.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Determination, Home

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• Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.

  Christopher Landsea

  Weather, Doubt, Energy

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• I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.

  George Eliot

  Blessing, Thinking, Bored

  George Eliot (2015). “Daniel Deronda”, p.444, Booklassic

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• The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share the same set of values and, above all, face a crisis situation that puts everyone under intense stress

  Irving Janis

  Powerful, Stress, Responsibility

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• It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

  George Eliot

  Love, Strong, Conceited

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2804, Delphi Classics

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• The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital book out it was about three months of intense focus. I let my friends know that I probably wouldn't be hanging out of returning their phone calls. It wasn't about doing the dishes, I ordered a lot of pizza, and I just completely put myself in the creative bubble.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Book, Hard Work, Fire

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• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

  Winston Churchill

  Writing, Simplicity, Language

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• Footballers can be like artists when the mind and body are working as one. It is what Miles Davis does when he plays free jazz - everything pulls together into one intense moment that is beautiful.

  Lilian Thuram

  Beautiful, Football, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Book, Mountain

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