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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

  Ani DiFranco

  Humility, Needs, Planets

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• The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers.

  Manohla Dargis

  Beautiful, Years, Parent

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• We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design of the Almighty on the one hand and that of Lucifer on the other. For that reason, we desperately need moral men and women who stand on principle, to be involved in the political process. Otherwise, we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Selfish, Men, Errors

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• I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.

  Robert Sirico

  Rain, Animal, Lakes

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• I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.

  Katherine Bernhardt

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008..

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• War is nothing but a microcosm of peace... it shows you life in a more intense way and that's how I continue to live it... for good or bad reasons.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Way, Reason

  "'War Is Just a Microcosm of Peace' – an Interview With Zainab Salbi". Interview with Eva Fernndez Ortiz, truthout.org. June 7, 2011.

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• Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.

  Sophie Cookson

  Drama, School, Curves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

  Adam Shankman

  Careers, Safety, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't do commentaries on films because A) I'm not very good at it and B) it's an odd thing that I discovered, on my first film, that you go through this really intense experience of making a film and then you sit in a little room with a monitor and you reduce the thing to a bunch of silly anecdotes. It's really unfulfilling and I've never really enjoyed listening to them anyway, so I just don't do them.

  David Slade

  Silly, Listening, Rooms

  Source: collider.com

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• I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.

  Brett Gelman

  Loneliness, Real, Party

  Source: collider.com

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• Another thing I think should be avoided is extremely intense ideology because it cabbages up one's mind. You see it a lot with T.V. preachers (many have minds made of cabbage) but it can also happen with political ideology. When you're young it's easy to drift into loyalties and when you announce that you're a loyal member and you start shouting the orthodox ideology out, what you're doing is pounding it in, pounding it in, and you're gradually ruining your mind. So you want to be very, very careful of this ideology. It's a big danger.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Thinking, Political

  USC Law Commencement Speech, genius.com. May 1, 2007.

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• Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
  The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied
  Of dead and living, Not the intense moment
  Isolated, with no before and after,
  But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Intense Moments, Burning

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Emotional, Issues, Alliances

  Doris Kearns Goodwin (2015). “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Intuition was not just visual but also auditory and kinesthetic. Those who watched Feynman in moments of intense concentration came away with a strong, even disturbing sense of the physicality of the process, as though his brain did not stop with the grey matter but extended through every muscle in his body.

  James Gleick

  Strong, Grey Matter, Brain

  James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.381, Open Road Media

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• I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Men, Thinking, Omnipotence

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• Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Couple, Mean, Years

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• Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Envy, Equal

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• Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

  Paul Davies

  Reality, Space, Matter

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• In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.

  Charlie Munger

  Competition, Fields, Disaster

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• [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Drug, Events

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• The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.

  Ansel Adams

  Intense Moments, People, Cameras

  Andrea Gray Stillman, Andrea Gray, Ansel Adams, American Place (Gallery), University of Arizona. Center for Creative Photography (1982). “Ansel Adams: an American Place, 1936”, Center for Creative Photography

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• Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Pride, Destiny

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• Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.

  Daniel D. Polsby

  Gun, Law, Long

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• Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Zero, Teaching, Night

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3204, Manonmani Publishers

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