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• Sometimes at night I think that my husband is with me again, coming gently through the mists, and we are tranquil together. Then the morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Morning, Husband, Night

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Carrie

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Tiny differences in input could quickly become overwhelming differences in output.... In weather, for example, this translates into what is only half-jokingly known as the Butter- fly Effect—the notion that a butterfly stirring the air today in Peking can transform storm systems next month in New York.

  James Gleick

  New York, Butterfly, Air

  Chaos prologue (1987)

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• Man has created some lovely dwellings, some soul-stirring literature. He has done much to alleviate physical pain. But he has not ... created a substitute for a sunset, a grove of pines, the music of the winds, the dank smell of the deep forest, or the shy beauty of a wildflower.

  Harvey Broome

  Pain, Sunset, Men

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• I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

  George Harrison

  Ideas, Responsible, Ringo

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• Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blessing, Expectations, Boredom

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.8

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• Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else.

  Shelby Foote

  Years, Weather, Air

  Shelby Foote (2011). “Follow Me Down: A Novel”, p.3, Vintage

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• Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

  Eric Hoffer

  Experience, Foreboding

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

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• Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.
  Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests,
  Of monsters in the ocean.
  
  You are the Just who knows no change,
  The Balance that can never swerve,
  The Eternal which never passes away.
  
  The doors of Kings are bolted now and guarded by soldiers.
  Your Door is open to all who call upon You.
  
  Each love is now alone with his beloved.
  And I am alone with You.

  Rabia Basri

  Wisdom, Kings, Stars

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• Sometimes language gets in the way of the story's feelings. The reader finds himself experiencing the language of the story rather than the story. The words sit there on the page like coins, with their own opacity, as though they're there for their own sake. "A man goes into a phone booth, stirring coins in his palm." "Stirring" is such an obviously selected word. You can feel the writer looking for the word as he sat at the typewriter.

  Leonard Michaels

  Men, Typewriters, Phones

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• I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Friendship, Dog, Pet

  "Loyal to the end... and beyond", www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2003.

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• Pictures are wasted unless the motive power which impelled you to action is strong and stirring.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Strong, Action

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• Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old.

  Confucius

  Love, Water, Delight

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

  Max Muller

  Book, India, World

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• I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How detached the intimate things around me seem from the great world down below. How strange is this combination of proximity and separation. That ground - seconds away - thousands of miles away. This air, stirring mildly around me. That air, rushing by with the speed of a tornado, an inch beyond. These minute details in my cockpit. The grandeur of the world outside. The nearness of death. The longness of life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Airplane, Rushing, Space

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• Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

  Laozi

  Heaven, Taoism, Looking For Love

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.69, Chinese University Press

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• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

  Albert Einstein

  Powerful, Action, Force

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our heart; that is, in all our understanding without erring. In all our soul; that is, in all our will without gainsaying. In all our their ought; that is, that we think on Him without forgetting. In this manner is very love and true, that is work of man's will. For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.

  Richard Rolle

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

  Max Lucado

  Motivation, Inspiration, Volunteer

  Max Lucado (2015). “On the Anvil”, p.120, NavPress

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• I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a single—and singular—piece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.

  Joseph Epstein

  Book, People, Soul

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• Democracy breaks the unity of the Romanian people, dividing it into parties, stirring it up, and so, disunited, exposing it to face the united block of the Judaic power.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Block, Party, People

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.371, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• My favorite duo since Thelma and Louise. They got chops, heart, and soul stirring harmonies.

  David Massengill

  Heart, Soul, Duos

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• We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten all of us, equally. No one can say how it will turn out down here. But this is also, we may note, the first time that a species has become able to journey to the planets and the stars. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense a stirring of the breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Journey, Sea

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• If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Sea, Other Worlds

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

  Richard Dawkins

  Music, Moving, Doubt

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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