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• I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble—everything seems important—so of course nothing is.

  Greg McKeown

  Thinking, Important, Courses

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• Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Thinking, Purpose

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.230

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Conspiracy, Trifles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”, p.42

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• More than ever now, I believe it's so important to look as real and true to life as possible, because nobody's perfect. I seem to be on a mission, but I don't want the next generation, your daughters and mine, growing up thinking that you have to be thin to look beautiful in certain clothes. It's terrifying right now. It's out of control. It's beyond out of control.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Daughter, Growing Up

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• To us, the difference between the #‎ photographer as an individual eye and the photographer as an objective recorder seems fundamental, the difference often regarded, mistakenly, as separating photography as art from #‎ photography as document. But both are logical extensions of what photography means: note-taking on, potentially, everything in the world, from every possible angle.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Mean

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.152, Macmillan

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• Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Peaceful, Spirit

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selling Things, Wish, Important

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

  Stephen Hawking

  May, Succeed, Inspiring Movie

  "Prof Stephen Hawking too unwell to deliver own 70th birthday speech" by Nick Collins, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 8, 2012.

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• When you create a basic budget and stick to it, it will suddenly seem like you have more money.

  Dave Ramsey

  Sticks, Like You, More Money

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• As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way.

  John Lennon

  Struggle, Night, Light

  Song: Intuition, Album: Mind Games

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• Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Might, Should

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Othello: Revised Edition”, p.220, Bloomsbury Publishing

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  You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

  Robert Greene

  Your Future, Be Prepared, Headings

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2016

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• Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• It must be splendid to command millions of people in great national ventures, to lead a hundred thousand to victory in battle. But it seems to me greater still to discover fundamental truths in a very modest room with very modest means - truths that will still be foundations of human knowledge when the memory of these battles is painstakingly preserved only in the archives of the historian.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Memories, Mean, People

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• A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.

  Alexander Calder

  Long, Mind

  Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) (2009). “Calder: Sculptor of Air”, 24 Ore Cultura

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• Among all the wonderful things we have, we don't seem to have a time to love. And to me that's the fuel, that's the fuel we need to make the engine go.

  Stevie Wonder

  Needs, Fuel, Wonder

  "Stevie Wonder returns with love in his heart". www.today.com. October 11, 2005.

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• Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Men, Values

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.114, Penguin

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• Love seems to be the appreciation that we are all little lumps in the same earthly soup which is a little lump in a larger cosmic soup. So, love is an awareness of this beautiful energetic relationship and a natural appreciation of this situation. It doesn't seem to be a matter of finding love...it's a matter of being aware of it. It's not a question of invention but rather discovery.

  Ken Dychtwald

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Love Is

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• Compared to their sense of smell, dogs seem to pay a lot less attention to their sense of taste. Apparently they believe that if something fits into their mouths, then it is food, no matter what it tastes like.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Believe, Smell

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• I've always seen the songs as having a consciousness. Since I was two-and-a-half they would come to me from nowhere. I never thought that I was conjuring them by myself, and I was always grateful they would come and visit... They've always been very much alive. They don't have a physical body like we do but there seems to be an awareness.

  Tori Amos

  Song, Grateful, Two

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• I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

  Christopher

  Recovery, Mean, Goal

  "Superman star Christopher Reeve passes away" by Brian B., movieweb.com. October 11, 2004.

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• Life cannot be against you, for you are Life itself. Life can only seem to go against the ego's projections, which are rarely the truth.

  Mooji

  Ego, Projection

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• Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Letting Go, Doe

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• When you say fiscal responsibility, it seems to me that you really mean rich people keeping their money.

  Alice Adams

  Money, Mean, Responsibility

  Alice Adams (2011). “LISTENING TO BILLIE: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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