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• I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.

  Hilary Devey

  Class, Noses, Adequate

  "Hilary Devey: Interview with the new Dragon". Interview with Kate Bassett, realbusiness.co.uk. July 28, 2011.

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• When I watch animals, I realize I am watching individual with lives that matter, to them. It isn't just another chicken or another mouse. She is that particular hen, autonomous and unique. He is that particular mouse with a unique life and social identity.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Unique, Identity

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• The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Hands, Problem, Cases

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• Yoga is not about having the perfect positions, it's not about who's the best and who's the most flexible. A lot of people are saying to me 'I can't do yoga because I'm not flexible,' but that's exactly why you should do it. It's not about being flexible. It's not about who's the best. It's about doing your best on that particular day.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Yoga, People, Perfect

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.

  Christopher Walken

  Opportunity, Please Me, People

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Sometimes something intrigues me about particular sounds, how they work together, and I think "Okay, I've found something here; I'm going to take it somewhere." And sometimes just to find a name for that sound, whatever it is, ends up becoming a title of the piece or becoming part of the title.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Names, Working Together

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 15, 2006.

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• I think I have a particular logic of my own that has to do with sound and sampling sound, and there isn't a great deal of music out there in that field. Whereas, harmonically and melodically, there's loads.

  Herbert

  Thinking, Fields, Sound

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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• Science is a particular way of thinking about things.

  Lilian Katz

  Thinking, Way Of Thinking, Way

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in, and I'm drawn to certain things. I can sometimes feel it when I'm moving away from something that I was once interested in - an idea or an exploration of particular relationships. I go, 'Well, I think I've done that and I don't want to do it again.'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Characters of Tom Hiddleston". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Taken, Thinking, Political

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Purpose, Wealth

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• Through a particular magical practice it is possible to modify the being that has only one element into a being with four elements and to give it an immortal spirit. But a magicial will seldom intervene without good reason, because he is responsible and must justify his actions before Divine Providence.

  Franz Bardon

  Practice, Four Elements, Giving

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• A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Science, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.454

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• Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the game for the Chicago Bulls and brought the NBA to its greatest peak of popularity.

  Will McDonough

  Sports, Athlete, Thinking

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• While no one railroad can completely duplicate another line, two or more may compete at particular points

  John Moody

  Two, Competition, Lines

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

  Frank McCourt

  Book, Responsibility, Creating

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• There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.

  Andrew Cohen

  Views

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• We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

  Andrew Cohen

  Culture, Literature, Gender

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• The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

  Francis Bacon

  Skills, Creative, Making Love

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• The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Roots, Together

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• Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London's middle-aged and male, respectably married but secretly gay.

  David Mitchell

  Sex, Gay, Cities

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• Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

  Susan Fletcher

  Strong Women, Sex, Clever

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• Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman, nor can one so determine to love Hawaii.

  Jack London

  Islands, Hawaii, Determine

  Jack London (1965). “Stories of Hawaii”

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• The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Citizens, World

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.358

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