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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

  Joan Halifax

  Our World, Symphony, Silence

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.

  Ansel Adams

  Keys, Eight, Play

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• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

  Northrop Frye

  Cat, Blue, Imagination

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press

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• No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us. Only the arts and sciences can do that, and of these, only literature gives us the whole sweep and range of human imagination as it sees itself

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Giving, Imagination

  Northrop Frye, Germaine Warkentin (2006). “Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1933-1962”, p.473, University of Toronto Press

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• I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

  David Antin

  Experts, Want, Audience

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• Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

  Michael Bolton

  Black, Accepting, Ability

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• Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

  Colin Powell

  Information, Guts

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• Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired. Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

  Colin Powell

  Numbers, Use, Information

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• Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Men, Hiking

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1871). “Atlantic Essays”, p.18

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• In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity - and it was an atrocity.

  Oliver Stone

  Sorry, Regret, Hard Work

  "Oliver Stone: ‘Jewish Domination Of The Media’ Propagates Holocaust Myths". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• As for my voice, it cannot be categorized-and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range. I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

  Jessye Norman

  Voice, Different, Would Be

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• Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

  Wes Anderson

  Ideas, Different, Kind

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe.

  Niki Lauda

  Airplane, Successful, Europe

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

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• Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.

  Robertson Davies

  Lying, Book, Reality

  "Tempest-Tost". Book by Robertson Davies, Part 6, 1951.

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• I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hate, Sight, Blood

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.492, Macmillan

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• The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on the cross) - one that none may despair, and but one that none may presume.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Christian, Years, Despair

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• The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

  Celia Green

  Happiness, Mind, Remarkable

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.

  Thomas Troward

  Law, Causes, Endure

  Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Music, Piano, Acoustics

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

  Gary Snyder

  Life, Ocean, Creativity

  Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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• If you are to do justice to [the great roles], you must fly up to them - rather than dragging them down to you - by expanding your range of knowledge and strengthening your imagination. Your imagination must become as real to you as your memories and feelings. What you take into yourself about psychology, politics, sociology, history and so on, will allow you to reach places in yourself you didn't know existed. No line, no image, no thought can be left general. Each must be specific and personal. Your work is not complete until this is so.

  Harold Guskin

  Memories, Real, Justice

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• Range is of the ego, form is of the soul.

  Alan Finger

  Yoga, Ego, Soul

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• I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing. Now I go to practice slicing without swearing.

  Bruce Lansky

  Golf, Practice, Driving

  Bruce Lansky (2011). “Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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