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• Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness; and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

  Robert Southey

  Desire, World, Longing

  Robert Southey (1849). “The life and correspondence of Robert Southey. Ed. by C.C. Southey”, p.284

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• One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

  Diana Vreeland

  Rain, Cleansing, Calming

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.

  David Frum

  Country, Past, America

  "David Frum’s Why Romney Lost eBook Is Spot-On" by Dan McDermott, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments

  Tina Brown

  Mistake, Psychics, Punishment

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• To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

  Tina Brown

  Winning, Anchors, Feels

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• Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Acceptance, Feelings, Doe

  "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz, as translated by Jane Zielonko, 1990.

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• There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to be real.

  E. Nesbit

  Strong, Real, Glasses

  E. Nesbit (1907). “The Enchanted Castle”, p.170, Lulu.com

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• People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

  Hermann Hesse

  Character, People, Fearless

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 123, 1919.

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• I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

  Dick Schaap

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

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• I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.

  Dorothy Allison

  Meaningful, Pain, Opening Up

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• But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, People, Choices

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• What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessing, Agony, Stronger

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• Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. They complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. What then brings the joy we so much desire? Are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? Strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. What makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.

  Henri Nouwen

  Running, Depressing, Two

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• I can’t believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Believe, Mean, Sorrow

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.104, Macmillan

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• I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.

  Lawrence Block

  Needs, Use, Noir

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• How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mean, Light, Practice

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blood, Generosity, Genius

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.278, Wildside Press LLC

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• Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Heart, Would Be

  Abraham Lincoln (1842). “An Address Delivered by Abraham Lincoln: Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church, Springfield Illinois, on the 22d Day of February, 1842”, p.12

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• It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

  Martin Van Buren

  Country, Government, Punishment

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.11

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• Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

  William Henry Harrison

  Civilization, Giving, Support

  "The History of Indiana, from Its Earliest Exploration by Europeans, to the Close of the Territorial Government, in 1816". Book by John Brown Dillon, www.esquire.com. 1859.

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness.

  Pat Roberts

  Two, People, Together

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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• God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

  Richard Rohr

  Great Love, Our Love, Objects

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.72, John Wiley & Sons

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• Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

  Richard Rohr

  Atheist, Ignorance, Atheism

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• The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it.

  Jim Garrison

  Thinking, Agency, Long

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