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• Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.

  Iris Johansen

  Drama, Hero, Writing

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• When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent, penetrating idea—which ceaselessly drives us inward in all directions. The decision to do philosophy—to seek philosophy is the act of self-liberation—the thrust toward ourselves.

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Ideas, Self

  Novalis (1997). “Novalis: Philosophical Writings”, p.48, SUNY Press

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• In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.

  Yukio Mishima

  Dark, Light, Anchors

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• In my reading of philosophy, I saw that there were innumerable problems that nobody was giving answers for. the Bible, it struck me, dealt with man's problems in a sweeping, all-encompassing thrust.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Philosophy, Reading, Men

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• Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

  Nick Hornby

  Awkward, Flesh, Threatening

  "High Fidelity". Book by Nick Hornby, 1995.

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• Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.

  Abdul Kalam

  Country, Self, India

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• America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

  Ernest Gellner

  America, Modern, Achieve

  "Anthropology and Politics". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1995.

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• From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.

  William Barrett

  Philosophy, Spring, Character

  William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books

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• O felt that her mouth was beautiful, since her lover condescended to thrust himself into it . . .

  Anne Desclos

  Beautiful, Kinky, Mouths

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• Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Reality, Meditation, Tears

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• Tragedy depends on the way you see it. If you chose to be a victim of the world, anything which happens to you will feed that dark side of your soul, where you consider yourself wronged, suffering, guilty and deserving punishment. If you choose to be an adventurer, the changes - even the inevitable losses, since everything in this world changes - can cause some pain, but will soon thrust you forward, forcing you to react.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Loss, Dark

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2016

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• Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Breakup, Sweet, Lying

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life, and that leap is the most difficult to make - to part with one's faith, one's love, when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving, Passion

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• It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.

  Lauren Willig

  Battle, Usual, Sniping

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.13, Allison & Busby

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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• There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.

  Lorenzo Lamas

  Reality, Media, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them

  Monica Lewinsky

  Greatness, People, Born

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• What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Feet, Bravery

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

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• once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

  Martha Ostenso

  Men, Hands, Teeth

  Martha Ostenso (1937). “The Stone Field”, New York, Dodd

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• For the anarch, little is changed when he strips off a uniform that he wore partly as fool's motley, partly as camouflage. It covers his spiritual freedom, which he will objectivate during such transitions. This distinguishes him from the anarchist, who, objectively unfree, starts raging until he is thrust into a more rigorous straitjacket.

  Ernst Junger

  Spiritual, Transition, Camouflage

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• Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

  Maurice Flanagan

  Leader, Achieve, Born

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• I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

  Michael Newdow

  Religious, Believe, Government

  "Litigant explains why he brought Pledge suit". "Talkback Live" with Arthel Neville, www.cnn.com. June 26, 2002.

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• I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  Motivation, Inspiration, Islamic

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• The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.

  Dale Carnegie

  Eye, Opportunity, Men

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• We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will manifest itself. A nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. The sense of exploration is intimately bound up with human resolve, and for a nation to believe that it is still committed to a forward motion is to ensure its continuance.

  James A. Michener

  Future, Believe, Adventure

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