Seems Quotes - Page 11

• I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

  Rodney A. Smolla

  Lying, Thinking, Deceit

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• The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Self, Long

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Past, New Day

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.122, Penguin

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• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Anger, Laughing

  Gustave Flaubert (1953). “Selected letters”

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• The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

  Jessica Livingston

  Successful, Media, Path

  "The Advice For Any Woman Who Wants To Found A Startup" by Jessica Livingston, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 201.

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• The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

  Paul Davies

  Order, Earth Life, Demand

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• Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Break Up, Order, Connections

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• Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

  Susan Orlean

  Children, Writing, Persistence

  "Advice" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2010.

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• What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.

  Henry Ford

  Ignorance, Dark, Evil

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• If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.

  Anatoly Kuznetsov

  Civilization, People, Leader

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• My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

  Pierre Loti

  Emotion, Force, Endeavor

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• All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.

  Sun Ra

  Play, Appreciate, Want

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• Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

  Peter L. Berger

  Religious, People, Way

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• I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Lonely, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• I think Taj and Nina were better friends, because they get along, they have a lot of fun and they laugh. But it seems that Nina and Jack really hit it off. Nina really fell in love with Jack. there's a lot of chemistry between them!

  Delta Goodrem

  Love, Fun, Thinking

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• It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Self, People, Things Change

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• The light of the Way seems dim.

  Laozi

  Light, Taoism, Way

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• The progress of the Way seems retreating.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Progress, Way

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• Heaven's Way does not contend, yet it certainly triumphs. It does not speak, yet it certainly answers. It does not summon, yet things come by themselves. It seems to be at rest, yet it certainly has a plan.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Triumph

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• True words seem false.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Taoism, True Words

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• The purest white seems stained.

  Laozi

  White, Taoism

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• The grandest virtue seems deficient.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue

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• The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue, Fragile

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• The most fundamental seems fickle.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Fickle, Fundamentals

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