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• We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

  John T. Flynn

  Long, Today, Way

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• My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

  Scott Ian

  Religious, Parent, Grandfather

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• Talent is no accident of birth. In today's society a good many people seem to have the idea that if one is born without talent, there is nothing he can do about it; they simply resign themselves to what they consider to be their fate.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Fate, Ideas, People

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.4, Alfred Music

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• And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.

  George Takei

  Country, Order, Achievement

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

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• Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

  George Takei

  Hero, Surface

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Lonely, Unique, Earth

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• Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.

  Alex Shakar

  Beautiful, Running, Cities

  "Cities Are Beautiful Creatures; 10 Questions For Alex Shakar". Interview with Lindsey Drager, www.hobartpulp.com. October 1, 2011.

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• It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.

  C.J. Sansom

  Life, People, Doe

  C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.202, Penguin

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• Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

  C.J. Sansom

  Boys, People, Littles

  C. J. Sansom (2006). “Winter in Madrid”, Macmillan Children's Books

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• You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Adventure, Thinking

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• This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

  Richard Louv

  Use, Enough, States

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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• After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.

  Judith Lewis Herman

  Self, Might, Return

  Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.35, Basic Books

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• The composition of the Greens seems to be the same as that of the population in general - mainly pieces of drifting wood, people who never think.

  Pentti Linkola

  Thinking, People, Population

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• Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, God, Religious

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Looking back, I underestimated the risks. The planet and the atmosphere seem to be absorbing less carbon than we expected, and emissions are rising pretty strongly. Some of the effects are coming through more quickly than we thought then.

  Nicholas Stern

  Business, Risk, Atmosphere

  "Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change - it's far, far worse'" by Heather Stewart and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Cat, Bed, Natural

  Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do. It costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.

  John Carmack

  People, Bed, Add

  "John Carmack: Making the Magic Happen" by Brad Cook, www.bradcook.net. February 2009.

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• The hope you feel when you are in love is not necessarily for anything in particular. Love brings something inside you to life. Perhaps it is just the full dimensionality of your own capacity to feel that returns. In this state you think no impediment can be large enough to interrupt your passion. The feeling spills beyond the object of your love to color the whole world. The mood is not unlike the mood of revolutionaries in the first blush of victory, at the dawn of hope. Anything seems possible. And in the event of failure, it will be this taste of possibility that makes disillusion bitter.

  Susan Griffin

  Hope, Passion, Love Is

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• If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.

  Alice James

  Book, Density, Shapes

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• People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

  Pam Houston

  People, Trying, Layers

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.

  William George Jordan

  Home, Grit, Littles

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• But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

  Sebastian Horsley

  Awful, Happens

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• The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

  Joe Garagiola

  Running, Blow, Yankees

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• Success ... seems to be connected with action.

  Conrad Hilton

  Success, Perseverance, Mistake

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• A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases. The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life. He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth. A member of the most ancient regime in the world. One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.

  Walter Martin

  Lying, Men, World

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