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• Anyone who says the Confederate Flag is a symbol of hate should be required to go to sensitivity training classes.

  Ezola B. Foster

  Hate, Class, Training

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• Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Light, Color

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• Education tends to be diagrammatic and categorical, opening up no sluices in the human imagination on the wonder of the beauty of our unique estate in the cosmos. Little wonder that it becomes so easy for our young to regard human hurt casually or to be uninspired by the magic of sensitivity.

  Norman Cousins

  Education, Hurt, Unique

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• God does not work in all hearts alike, but according to the preparation and sensitivity He finds in each.

  Meister Eckhart

  Heart, Preparation, Doe

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form.

  Yves Klein

  Color, Substance, Form

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• To be true to one's self is the ultimate test in life. To have courage and the sensitivity to follow your hidden dreams and stand tall against the odds that are bound to fall in your path. Life is too short and precious to be dealt with in any other fashion. This thought I hold dear to my heart and I always try to be true to myself and others that I encounter along the way.

  Flo Hyman

  Dream, Volleyball, Fashion

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• Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people don't have. They think that being white and male is going to save the world; but life is not The Lion King.

  Jason Reeves

  Kings, Opportunity, Thinking

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• An organist who has the sensitivity to quietly play prelude music from the hymnbook tempers our feelings and causes us to go over in our minds the lyrics which teach the peaceable things of the kingdom. If we will listen, they are teaching the gospel, for the hymns of the Restoration are, in fact, a course in doctrine!

  Boyd K. Packer

  Music, Teaching, Play

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• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  Jack White

  Thinking, Needs, Sometimes

  “Jack White: 'I don't like to take the easy way out, on anything I do'” by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

  Laurence Olivier

  Cutting, Thinking, Intuition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Teacher, Children, Intellectual

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• We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?

  John Blacking

  Music, Real, Class

  John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.4, University of Washington Press

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• When I think of happiness or joy in this life, I begin with some experiences that are simple and basic. I see the expression on the face of a one-year-old taking those first steps. I think of a child loving a puppy or a kitten. If the more mature have not dulled their physical or spiritual sensitivities by excess or disuse, they can also experience joy in what is simple and basic.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Spiritual, Children, Simple

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• Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

  Paul Brunton

  Doe, Lost, Existence

  Paul Brunton (1988). “Relativity, Philosophy and Mind: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, World, Absence

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• When Reason Breaks is infused with a rare blend of suspense and sensitivity, despair and hope. The poetic spirit of Emily Dickinson shines through the gloom of daily struggles faced by modern teens, as they discover the possibilities where they dwell.

  Margarita Engle

  Struggle, Shining, Despair

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• The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.

  Raymond Pierrehumbert

  Climate, Bullets, Damage

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• I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.

  Mike Tyson

  People, Tears, Cry

  "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

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• Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Attitude, Writing, Hands

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• The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.

  Gail Caldwell

  Lovely, Honor, Triumph

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• I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel. He often seems to give the blessing of a special sensitivity to the influence and guidance of the Holy Spirit, especially in marriage and family matters like raising children. Such spiritual sensitivity can help us enjoy the blessings of harmony and peace in the home.

  Carl B. Pratt

  Spiritual, Children, Home

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• It is important to know when you feel down that many others do also and that their circumstances are generally much worse than yours. And it’s important to know that when one of us is down it becomes the obligation of his friends to give him a lift. I hope that each of us will cultivate a sensitivity toward the feelings of others and when encouragement is needed make an effort to extend it. Be a friend and you will have a friend. God be thanked for wonderful friends.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Encouragement, Wonderful Friends, Giving

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• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Littles, Strange

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• Those who have come into Formula One without experiencing cars devoid of electronic aids will find it tough. To control 800 horse power relying just on arm muscles and foot sensitivity can turn out to be a dangerous exercise.

  Michael Schumacher

  Horse, Exercise, Feet

  2003 In the Observer, 2Mar.

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• Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

  Susan Cain

  Cousin, Disappointment, Class

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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