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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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• In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.

  Raymond Geuss

  Exercise, Important, Action

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• No matter what ailed you, a small glass of schnapps would take care of it at once. This particular remedy was so good my grandfather would frequently take the cure even before there was anything wrong with him.

  Molly Picon

  Drinking, Glasses, Grandfather

  Molly Picon (1962). “So Laugh A Little”

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• There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.

  Daphne Merkin

  Family, Unhappy, Stubborn

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• When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Groups, Wave

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• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Thinking, Luxury, Knowing

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• If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Mean, Justice

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.590

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• It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Copying, Needs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.260, Penguin

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• Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

  Samuel Johnson

  Elegance, Manners, Mark

  Samuel Johnson (1807). “Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.105

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• Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).

  George Herbert

  Lasts, Ends, Spaniards

  George Herbert, Joseph Hall (1855). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall”, p.331

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• For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

  Donnie Yen

  Movement, Moments, Feels

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• Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

  Donnie Yen

  Art, Drama, The End Of The Day

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• There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Names, Actors, Kevin

  "The Best Movie of the Year" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.

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• Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

  Brian Eno

  Interesting, Listening, Attention

  "Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice". Book by Robert Fink, 2005.

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• You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Trying, World, Want

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

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• Lately I feel films are more and more like music. Music deals with abstractions and, like film, it involves time. It has many different movements, it has much contrast. And through music you learn that, in order to get a particular beautiful feeling, you have to have started far back, arranging certain things in a certain way. You can't just cut to it.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Cutting, Order

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• I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Robots, Generations

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• Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Generations, Problem

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• You see, my Lord Archbishop, what is "dubious" about my theology is not that it contradicts particular doctrinal teachings, things are much worse or better: what I want, is no more and no less than a fundamental change in the whole way that theology is done today; but I want this out of faith, not out of faithlessness.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Teaching, Dubious, Fundamentals

  Letter to Archbishop J J Degenhardt, 1992.

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• We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand.

  Eugen Drewermann

  Struggle, Hands, Talking

  Speech at a conference of therapists in Basel, Switzerland, May 21, 1977.

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• I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

  Kenneth P. Thompson

  Thinking, Movement, Linux

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• Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Thinking, Essence, Form

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• As women's leadership qualities come to play a more dominant role in the public sphere, their particular aptitudes for long-term negotiating, analytic listening, and creating an ambiance in which people work with zest and spirit will help reconcile the split between the ideals of being efficient and being humane. This integration of female values is already producing a more collaborative kind of leadership, and changing the very ideal of what strong leadership actually is.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Strong, Creating

  Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.249, Crown Business

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Religious, Sex, Judging

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