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• A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

  Mary Oliver

  Feelings, Mind, Inquiring

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I think of the most able students I have encountered in my teaching - I mean those who have distinguished themselves not only by skill but by independence of thought - then I must confess that all have had a lively interest in epistemology.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Mean, Thinking

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• I was in Mexico City. It's a very pleasant city in many ways. It's vibrant, lively, pretty exciting society, but also depressing in other ways, and sometimes almost hopeless, you know. So it's a combination of vibrancy and, I wouldn't say despair, but hopelessness, you know. Doesn't have to be, but it is. I mean, there is almost no economy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Depressing, Mean, Cities

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  Ben Lerner

  Writing, Criticism, Fiction

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

  H. L. Mencken

  Drama, Gay, Golf

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.279, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I agree that Scott Lively is marginal, and that is exactly why evangelicals must not let him speak for them. But in Uganda, Scott Lively is allowed to address the parliament for five hours, and his hate-filled message led directly to the anti-homosexuality bill.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hate, Uganda, Addresses

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Hope And Faith, Lord, Eternal Life

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• I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing.

  John Barrowman

  Lying, Home, Tvs

  "John Barrowman interview: Sometimes fans send me knickers, but I never send mine back". www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2011.

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• We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teacher, Real, Feelings

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Heart, Desire

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• Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  People, Wish, Looks

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• If you have a target, you will walk more lively even in the middle of a desert!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Desert, Target, Middle

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• Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Mean, Old Friends, Scandal

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285

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• I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Ideas, May

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• Great pals we've always been. In fact there was a time when I had an idea I was in love with Cynthia. However, it blew over. A dashed pretty and lively and attractive girl, mind you, but full of ideals and all that. I may be wronging her, but I have an idea that she's the sort of girl who would want a fellow to carve out a career and what not. I know I've heard her speak favourably of Napoleon. So what with one thing and another the jolly old frenzy sort of petered out, and now we're just pals. I think she's a topper, and she thinks me next door to a looney, so everything's nice and matey.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Nice, Thinking

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• Potluck Supper with Meeting to Follow is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor.

  Joe Meno

  Art, Kids, Unique

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• By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Believe, Leader

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• A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

  Alfred de Musset

  Joy, Vivid, Retrospect

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• I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

  Sophie Tucker

  Song, Numbers, Laughing

  SOPHIE TUCKER (1945). “Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER”

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• Music doesn't have to be your livelihood to make your 'hood lively.

  Mardy Grothe

  Hood, Livelihood

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• We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Jane Austen (1819). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel”, p.8

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• Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Benefits

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• Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Grandmother, Animal, May

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• What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.

  William Wordsworth

  Passion, Men, Soul

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.376

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• Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

  Truman Capote

  Smart, Radio, Subjects

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.69, Vintage

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