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• It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Men, Risk

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• One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Artist, Reality, Thinking

  Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”

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• I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

  Ann Louise Gittleman

  Animal, Thinking, Vegetarian Diet

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• Once you’re sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.

  Mark Sisson

  Choices, Negative, Impossible

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• Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most voters’ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with the solutions and then to imagine that voters have the relevant concerns. And while many of the proposed solutions have great potential appeal to conservative voters, few would do much to expand their ranks.

  Ramesh Ponnuru

  Mind, Answers, Libertarian

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• Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

  Amanda Ripley

  Survival, Impossible, Lost

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• More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, New York, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.683, NYU Press

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• Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
  that political independence disappears without economic independence
  that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Knowing, Leader, Political

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1984). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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• One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Guy, Truth Is, Terrible

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• Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Names, Common

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.317, Courier Corporation

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• Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

  David Fincher

  Simple, Cameras, Paper

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

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• Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.

  Howard Zinn

  People, Tiny, Results

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• Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Keys, Castles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.23, Schocken

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• The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.

  Ann Voskamp

  Blessing

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.12, Zondervan

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• Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

  Frida Giannini

  Real, Venice, Water

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• Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Blessing, Perspective, Needs

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 26, 2015

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• Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Blessing, Burdens Of Life, Today

  Twitter post from Dec 06, 2016

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• Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

  Heraclitus

  Men, Way, Strange

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• Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

  Alan Cohen

  Sometimes, Reason

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• If there's a god, it knows exactly what it would take to convince me and has refused to provide it. In fact, it has gone to great lengths to hide any evidence of its existence. That doesn't seem like a deity that wants to be worshiped to me.

  David G. McAfee

  Gone, Want, Facts

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Oct 15, 2012

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• Language is never fully trustworthy, but when it comes to eating animals, words are as often used to misdirect and camouflage as they are to communicate. Some words, like veal, help us forget what we are actually talking about. Some, like free-range, can mislead those whose consciences seek clarification. Some, like happy, mean the opposite of what they would seem. And some, like natural, mean next to nothing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mean, Animal, Talking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, November 2, 2009.

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• Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young.

  Goldie Hawn

  Eye, Looks, May

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2006.

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• Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Character, Cities

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• When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.

  Joel Osteen

  Victory, Road To Success, Intensity

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2012

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• Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

  John Jakes

  Adventure, Eye, Promise

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