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• Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Mean, Tunnels

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• How did you learn to drive like that?" Gwen yelled over the howl of six hundred horses. "Watching Jacks." She gunned the engine and slipped around another car. "What?" "You know, watching his shifting." Gwen gasped. "You've been looking at his SHIFTER?

  Scott Speer

  Horse, Car, Six

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• The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

  Libba Bray

  Doe, Drs, Lines

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• XL is dedicated to understanding shifting business dynamics and helping our clients thrive in increasingly complex and changing environments. 'The Future of the Company' platform will allow us to offer insights and commentary on these essential topics to a global and diverse audience and feature insights from XL experts.

  Mike McGavick

  Understanding, Essentials, Experts

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• When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

  Sara Zarr

  Opportunity, Interesting, Suspense

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Views, Giving

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• If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

  Anais Nin

  Truth, Moving, Ifs

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• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Cost, Use

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.

  Julia Leigh

  Writing, Space, Roles

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• It's really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially - to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.

  Richard Hell

  Appreciation, Art, Attitude

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• I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

  Michael Connelly

  Loss, Thinking, Talking

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• The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.

  Morris Kline

  Science, Reality, Order

  Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.382, Oxford University Press

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• [Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Country, Regret

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Self, Circles

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• Technology plows through history at an accelerating rate, shifting the burden of production off labor into the nonhuman factor because man uses his highest ingenuity to avoid servile labor.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Men, Technology

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• It's very important for the coming times to have a sound economic base and to be as mobile as possible. The energy lines will be shifting strongly as we enter into the end phase of the earth's cycle.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.

  Jillian Bach

  Running, Home, Challenges

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Laughter, Sunset

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• There is a quiet courage that comes from an inward spring of confidence in the meaning and significance of life. Such courage is an underground river, flowing far beneath the shifting events of one's experience, keeping alive a thousand little springs of action.

  Howard Thurman

  Courage, Spring, Rivers

  Howard Thurman (2014). “Meditations of the Heart”, p.52, Beacon Press

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• Elisabeth Sheffield's new novel is multilayered, smart, beautifully written, and funny. I was taken in by the first paragraph and held firmly through the roller coaster of a ride. The depth of the novel was evidenced by the constantly shifting meaning of the title itself. In fact, the entire work never changes its meaning, but somehow, seamlessly, simply means more. This is a rare and memorable piece of work.

  Percival Everett

  Smart, Taken, Mean

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• Wild foods, microbial cultures included, possess a great, unmediated life force, which can help us adapt to shifting conditions and lower our susceptibility to disease. These microorganisms are everywhere, and the techniques for fermenting with them are simple and flexible.

  Sandor Katz

  Simple, Technique, Culture

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• Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Book, Reading, Media

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. January 3, 2015.

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• I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could make to the ambience of a room, and indeed how shifting work around could change a room's whole feeling.

  Michael Audain

  Art, Wall, Differences

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• Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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