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• Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

  Al Alvarez

  Art, Coherence, May

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• The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

  Billy Graham

  Life, Light, Joy

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 11, 2016

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• Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem . . . ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.

  Daniel Starch

  Mean, Agency, Competition

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• Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

  Judith Guest

  Successful, People, Tragedy

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• This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Government, Common Purpose

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• Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

  Jinzaburo Takagi

  Plutonium, Program, Justification

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• It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

  James Forten

  Ideas, Liberty, Slavery

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• Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

  Gerry Spence

  Ideas, America, Long

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• People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

  Charles Mathias

  Courage, People, Want

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• Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

  Edward Norton Lorenz

  Creating, Mathematics, Faster

  "A scientist by choice". Speech by acceptance of the Kyoto Prize, 1991.

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• I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Business, Reflection

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• Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Pain, Issues

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• There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Music, Piano, Drawing

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.23

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• I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

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• What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

  George B. McClellan

  Power, Land, Magic

  George B. McClellan (1998). “McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union”, p.82, Digital Scanning Inc

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• Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

  Steven Strogatz

  Latin, Math, Rocks

  Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think.

  Theodore Annemann

  Thinking, Dumb, Magic

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• It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an air castle that the outside world cannot wreck. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw from within. And the man or woman who has a star toward which to press cannot be thrown off the course, no matter how the world may try, no matter how far things seem to be wrong.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspiring, Stars, Men

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• But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among the chaos, and the nature of scientific method is to seek these out and to stick to them when found and to reject or neglect the chaos. It is obvious that we have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but this fact in itself does not prove anything farther.

  Arthur David Ritchie

  Science, Order, Doe

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• Words seem so futile, so feeble. You are all such lovely, beautiful people ... thank you.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, People, Lovely

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• Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Past, Chaos, Sometimes

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• Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

  Assia Djebar

  Fear, Writing, Feminist

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• At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  John Cheever

  Ignorance, Light, Two

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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• As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Age, Cosmos

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

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