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• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

  George Meredith

  Stars, Fire, Dying

  George Meredith (2010). “The Egoist”, p.549, Broadview Press

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• In friendship similarity of character has more weight than kinship.

  Cornelius Nepos

  Real, Character, Weight

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• I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

  Jason Priestley

  Wife, Canada, Feels

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• I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Not Good Enough, Feels, Relate

  "In the Director’s Chair: Baz Luhrmann". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. December 6, 2010.

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• Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Fire, Tree, Understanding

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

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• The Eucharist is the life of the people. The Eucharist gives them a center of life. All can come together without the barriers of race or language in order to celebrate the feast days of the Church. It gives them a law of life, that of charity, of which it is the source; thus it forges between them a common bond, a Christian kinship

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Christian, Race, Order

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• The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Theory Of Evolution, Cosmos, Facts

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey". Documentary, 2014.

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• A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

  Carroll Quigley

  Intimate Relationships, Community, Groups

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• The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things.

  Carl Jung

  Feelings, Doubt, Uncertain

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.37, North Atlantic Books

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• The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Want, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Lessons, Firsts, Evolution

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• There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Brotherhood, Amir

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• Couldn't we end this interview with what I really want to say? That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship -- everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. If we could end this article saying just that, we'd get down to what we should all be talking about. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Brother, Stars, Real

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• Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

  Willa Cather

  Stronger, Building, Settings

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.270, Vintage

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• Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

  Richard Leakey

  Law, Skills, Survival

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• The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Firsts, Causes, Universe

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 1,

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• What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Brother, Stars, Real

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• She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Animal, Tanks, Common

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Real, Animal, Sky

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.193, U of Nebraska Press

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• Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.

  David O. McKay

  Encouragement, Inspiration, Blessing

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• If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Nature, Feelings

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• I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

  Brian Greene

  Journey, Thinking, Long

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• The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Giving, Insanity

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (pp. 122-123), 1906.

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• It is now. It is always now. Now is good. Now could be the best. My name is Catcher. My name was Catcher. My name...my name... I am... I am lost, I am found and then I am free and I am happy. When I jump over that edge, someone leaps with me, shoulder to shoulder. I smell kinship on him. Kinship is all. I'm not alone. Never alone. I land, earth below me, moon above. I am wolf. We are pack. And that is all I need.

  Rob Thurman

  Moon, Land, Names

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