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• And I suddenly think, as I look across the table at him, that these are the days as they will be. This is the future as we see it. The swerve and the static. The confidence and the doubt.

  Colum McCann

  Thinking, Doubt, Looks

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.242, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

  Michael Palin

  Years, Restless Mind, Leaving

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• But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Sky, Labs, Fields

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• A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Journey, Space

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• The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

  Janet Fitch

  Night, Hair, Watches

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

  H. G. Wells

  Reality, Feet, Cinema

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• Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt to limit it or categorize it, we get into trouble.

  James Van Praagh

  Love Is, Limits, Trouble

  James Van Praagh (2011). “Watching Over Us: What the Spirits Can Teach Us About Life”, p.45, Random House

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• Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Mother, Dream, Loneliness

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• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Vision, Criticism

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• By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mindset of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Infidel: My Life". Book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 2007.

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• The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Risk, Littles, Problem

  "Confession of a Buddhist Atheist". Book by Stephen Batchelor, 2010.

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• They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing. There were always changes going on. Like with continents, sometimes the changes were invisible and underground, and sometimes they were explosive and deadly. The trick was to keep your balance. You couldn't control the direction of your family any more than you could stop the continental shelf from breaking apart. All you could do was hold on for the ride.

  Kristin Hannah

  Past, Balance, Sometimes

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Life is never static. Despite catastrophic tragedies, life has persisted in evolving new varieties of unimaginable forms. I find comfort in the narrative of evolutionary history.

  Greg Graffin

  Tragedy, Comfort, Narrative

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• Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beach, Morning, Perfect

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.76, Vintage

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• Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Class, People

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• Hollis " I said "you're messing with me right now aren't you You're in Paris or somewhere and just-" "What " he replied. "No This is the real deal. Here I'll prove it." There was a muffled noise followed by some static. Then I heard my mother recite at a distance in her most droll flat tone "Yes. It is true. Your brother is in love and in my kitchen.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Brother, Real

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• Most countries are static, all they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.

  Neal Stephenson

  Country, Baby, Sight

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.118, Spectra

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• There was a pause, static, a muttered "Give me that," by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding, "Did you just drunk dial my husband?" "Yes, ma'am," Strider said, and the other two finally burst into laughter.

  Gena Showalter

  Laughter, Husband, Two

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 3: The Darkest Secret\The Darkest Surrender\The Darkest Seduction”, p.246, Harlequin

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• The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Dream, America, Quality

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• If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

  Nalini Nadkarni

  Art, Grief, Years

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• In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation

  Aga Khan IV

  Islamic, Humility, Men

  Speech at The Acceptance of The Charter of The Aga Khan University, ismaili.net. March 24, 2010.

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• Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Believe, Black And White, Ideas

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• You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

  Steve Earle

  People, Democracy, Knows

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• A lot of parts on television are static. Nothing really changes.

  Jim Parrack

  Television

  "True stories of 'True Blood' star". Interview with Joanie Cox, articles.sun-sentinel.com. October 15, 2011.

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• What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

  Jack Vance

  Men, Air, Eggs

  "Madouc". Book by Jack Vance, 1989.

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