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• The most complete seems lacking. Yet in use it is not exhausted.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Use, Exhausted

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• The most straight seems curved.

  Laozi

  Taoism

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• The most able seems clumsy.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Able, Clumsy

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• The most eloquent seems to stutter.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Eloquent

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• Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

  Laozi

  Compassion, People, Taoism

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• The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Taoism, Valleys

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• Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

  Toni Morrison

  Friendship, Events, Gallant

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.268, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Forever, Lasts

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• There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

  Jamelia

  Hours In The Day, New Day, Moments

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• We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

  John Robert Seeley

  Mind, Half, World

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Grief, Circles

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “Works: Edited with an Introduction”

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• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Taken, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Equality, Animal, Should Have

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• I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

  Heather Donahue

  Thinking, Danger, Adaptable

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• It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption.

  F. L. Lucas

  Memories, Liars, Reading

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• I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

  Anne Truitt

  Artist, Happened, Decided

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• Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

  David McCord

  Life, Fit, Garments

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• It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Men, Self, Perfect

  " Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I" by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Petridge and Company, (p. 216), 1854.

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Cities, Gourmet, Flavor

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• The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

  Josephine Hart

  Art, Passion, Essentials

  "Damage: a novel".

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• Many people believe that they were made by their parents: 'I didn't ask to be born.' they cry. This is completely wrong. Please try to remember when your were five. If you try then you will remember that this memory had no beginning. It seems as if you can remember living infinitely; that your life didn't begin when you were born but continues without limit.

  Michio Kushi

  Memories, Believe, People

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• On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

  Siobhan Davies

  Acceptance, Hands, Ideas

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• Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization....The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.

  H. Allen Smith

  Hate, Wrath, Civilization

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