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• Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Life, Time, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

  John Green

  Wikipedia, Share, Sharing Knowledge

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• There was enough tension in the room to send a fleet of the nervous running for their tranquilizers.

  Charlaine Harris

  Running, Rooms, Nervous

  Charlaine Harris (2001). “Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.206, Penguin

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• Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time." [...] "This is my time, Hathaway. I'm leading today's session." "Oh yeah?" I retorted. "Huh. Well, I guess this is a good time to think about me naked, then." "It's always a good a time to think about you naked," added someone nearby, breaking the tension further.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Naked, Hey

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.20, Penguin

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• Santangelo is irritated. "We're not suppose to be collaborating. It's supposed to be a war and you're supposed to stick to the boundaries." "We've seen you in your jocks," she reminds him. "Taylor and Griggs have pashed. You've broken into your father's police station for us. Don't you think the war has lost a bit of its tension?

  Melina Marchetta

  Father, War, Thinking

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• But lately, when I’m drunk, I feel a hostility that I’ve never known before. It is a tension deep in my gut that makes me want to yell until my face is red, knock over glasses with the back of my hand, and kick people I don’t know in the shins.

  Koren Zailckas

  Glasses, Hands, People

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.156, Penguin

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• In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Children, White

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

  Tom Robbins

  Memorable, Personality, Understanding

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.23, Bantam

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• What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

  Paul Valery

  Passion

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• I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each other. But he won’t give us away, Lucas. He’s even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help him with Charity.” “What, like, a fund-raiser or something?” I’d forgotten he didn’t know her name. “The vampire girl in Amherst.” “Wait—Charity? That’s her name? You were able to figure out who she is.” He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly melted. “I fell in love with a genius.

  Claudia Gray

  Girl, Names, Long

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• there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.

  Megan McCafferty

  Middle East, World, Too Much

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.556, Crown

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• Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Blue, Sea

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Feelings, Important, Desire

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• From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Class, Age, Identity

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• In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

  Susan Wiggs

  Book, Class, Elements

  Interview with Suzanne Fox, www.publishersweekly.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Find moments in your life in which you had communication with people. You will see that most of our tensions, disappointments , sorrows, pain, and anxiety are the result of a break in our communication.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Pain, Disappointment, Communication

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• As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Cities, White

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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• Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.

  Christian Smith

  Real, Creative, Fuel

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• This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.

  Tom Kenyon

  Past, Meditation, Negativity

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• I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

  Richard Condon

  Thinking, Mirrors, Important

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• It's not what I want, Trish. It's what you want. It's what you need. And even though we're opponents tonight in the 6 person, tag team table match, I see how you look at me. You could cut the sexual tension between is with a knife. So I just want to let you know no matter the outcome, I'm always available to give to a healthy dose of Vitamin C.

  Chris Jericho

  Team, Cutting, Wwe

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• My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body-the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood-the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water.

  Kat Duff

  Reading, Teaching, Wind

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• Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

  Russell Baker

  Crush, Baseball, Sleep

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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• Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stress, Worry, Anxiety

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.61, New World Library

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