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• I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Civilization, Cynical

  "The Dub Room Special". 1982.

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• Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood.

  J. G. Ballard

  Thinking, Doctors, Parent

  "Age of Unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct.

  Muhammad Asad

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

  Muhammad Asad (1961). “The Principles of State and Government in Islam”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• When something's ending, you go through so many phases, and it can be frustrating. But once you're out on the other side, it's like you can really see all the crazy phases you went through.

  Norah Jones

  Crazy, Sides, Like You

  "How To Break Up With Attitude, According To Norah Jones". "Morning Edition" with Davide Greene and Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• I have always worked out, and I've gone through different phases of yoga, but the combination of Pilates three days a week with yoga is incredible.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Yoga, Different, Three

  "Why Claudia Schiffer is still a slip of a covergirl at 38". Interview with Paul Revoir, www.dailymail.co.uk. March 9, 2009.

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• Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through.

  David Thewlis

  Character, Gay, Men

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• It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

  Paul McCartney

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• I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

  Katy Perry

  Trying, Coming Out, Chaps

  "Katy Perry gets deep about Teenage dream" by James Mongomery, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2010.

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• If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.

  Richard Branson

  Crush, Lying, Competition

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• The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Lunch, Survival

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.146, Del Rey

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• I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

  Bill Murray

  Thinking, Careers, Pieces

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• I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

  Steve Reich

  Interesting, Made, Unison

  Steve Reich, Paul Hillier (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.

  Ziggy Marley

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  "Ziggy Marley Explains His Identity". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Adolescence has been recognised as a stage of human development since medieval times--long, long before the industrial revolution--and, as it is now, has long been seen as a phase which centers on the fusion of sexual and social maturity. Indeed, adolescence as a concept has as long a history as that of puberty, which is sometimes considered more concrete, and hence much easier to name and to recognize.

  Terri E Apter

  Maturity, Names, Long

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• It is not however, adulthood itself, but parenthood that forms the glass shroud of memory. For there is an interesting quirk in the memory of women. At 30, women see their adolescence quite clearly. At 30 a woman's adolescence remains a facet fitting into her current self.... At 40, however, memories of adolescence are blurred. Women of this age look much more to their earlier childhood for memories of themselves and of their mothers. This links up to her typical parenting phase.

  Terri E Apter

  Mother, Memories, Women

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• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  Ralph Boston

  Being Strong, Running, Inspiration

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• I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

  Steve Ballmer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

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• My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

  Cara Delevingne

  Who I Am, I Am Who I Am, Sexuality

  "Cara Delevingne, Ready to Conquer Hollywood, Immerses Herself in ‘Paper Towns’". Interview with By Logan Hill, www.nytimes.com. July 16, 2015.

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• My beloved brothers and sisters, to those of you who have been blessed by the gospel for many years because you were fortunate enough to find it early, to those of you who have come to the gospel by stages and phases later, and to those of you-members and not yet members-who may still be hanging back, to each of you, one and all, I testify of the renewing power of God’s love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Brother, Blessed, Years

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• The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spring, Men, Average

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Life, Military, War

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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• A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

  H. G. Wells

  Children, Mean, Opportunity

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• Today it is time to give the government a new lease of life and this new phase which is as demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated energy and new faces.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Life, Government, Giving

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• At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

  Terry Semel

  Media, Library, Digital

  "Terry Semel Joins SnagFilms’ Board, Invests in Online Distributor". www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Moon, Years, Stronger

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.136, Vintage

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