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• It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

  Russell Baker

  Wine, Nursing, White

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• Serious journalism need not be solemn.

  Russell Baker

  Serious, Needs, Journalism

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• The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Joy, Serious

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• Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.

  Nora Ephron

  Worry, One Day, Serious

  Nora Ephron (2008). “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts On Being a Woman”, p.93, Random House

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• There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Eight, People

  "Double Star". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1956.

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• It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Art, Character

  "Life's A Dive". Documentary, Short, Adventure, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Fall, Faces, Ass

  X. J. Kennedy (1973). “Emily Dickinson in Southern California”

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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, oh man, if thou wilt lead a man unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanses of eternity; thou must commune with God!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Mind

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• Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.

  Molly Corbett Broad

  Speech, Academic, Institutions

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• Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Summer, Country

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• I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

  James M. Barrie

  School, Men, Want

  James M. Barrie (2011). “Peter Pan (小飛俠彼得潘)”, p.677, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• Great design is serious, not solemn

  Paula Scher

  Design, Serious, Great Design

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• God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Laughter, Blessed, Men

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• I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

  Henry Adams

  Doctrine, Physics, Accepting

  Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.94, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There must be a solemn and terrible aloneness that comes over the child as he takes those first independent steps. All this is lost to memory and we can only reconstruct it through analogies in later life....To the child who takes his first steps and finds himself walking alone, this moment must bring the first sharp sense of the uniqueness and separateness of his body and his person, the discovery of the solitary self.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Independent

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• The need to proclaim Christ boldly and courageously is a continuing priority for the Church; indeed it is a solemn duty laid upon her by Christ who enjoined the Apostles to 'go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation.'

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Priorities, Church, Needs

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• In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Ideas, Effort

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Apr 26, 2012

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• When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.

  Frederic Farrar

  Friday, Children, Lying

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• It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

  Walter Scott

  Enemy, Religion, Looks

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• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Art, Men, Enough

  "The Tale Bearers: English and American Writers" by Random House, (p. 25), 1980.

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• Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Lying, Light, Land

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• Praise to our Father-God,
  High praise in solemn lay,
  Alike for what His hand hath given,
  And what it takes away.

  Lydia Sigourney

  God, Father, Hands

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1841). “Pocahontas, and Other Poems”, p.94

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• The analytical writer observes the reader as he is; accordingly, he makes his calculation, sets his machine to make the appropriate effect on him. The synthetic writer constructs and creates his own reader; he does not imagine him as resting and dead, but lively and advancing toward him. He makes that which he had invented gradually take shape before the reader's eyes, or he tempts him to do the inventing for himself. He does not want to make a particular effect on him, but rather enters into a solemn relationship of innermost symphilosophy or sympoetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Eye, Doe, Machines

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• I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

  John Masefield

  Sunset, Dawn, Spain

  John Masefield (1925). “Poems by John Masefield”

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