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• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Profound, Magic

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Ideas, Giving

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Animal, Car, Survival

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• The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a greater intellectual thrust than the truth; it may better serve the needs of the spirit, which vary. The truth is balance, but the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  Susan Sontag

  Lying, Opposites, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  World, Growing, Body

  Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (1952). “Today's children and yesterday's heritage: a philosophy of creative religious development”

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• I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Careers, Long

  Interview with Domhnall Gleeson, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2015.

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• [I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Church, Steps

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• It's true that (many) are praying for a worldwide revival. But it would be more timely, and more scriptural, for prayer to be made to the Lord of the harvest, that He would raise up and thrust forth laborers who would fearlessly and faithfully preach those truths which are calculated to bring about a revival.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Religion, Would Be

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• It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.

  Saul Bellow

  Believe, Artist, Views

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.62, Odyssey Editions

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• Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death

  Stella Adler

  Hurt, Pain, Blood

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.24, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason was made. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.

  Michel Foucault

  Broken, Silence, Syntax

  Michel Foucault, Keith Hoeller, Ludwig Binswanger, Jacob Needleman (1984). “Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry”

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• So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like I'm writing that book review for every bad book reviewer I've ever known and it's a way of saying [thrusts a middle finger into the air] this is how you ought to do it. I like to rub their noses in it.

  John Irving

  Real, Book, Writing

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• I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

  Martial

  Lakes, Water, Noble

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• My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

  Rian Johnson

  Emotional, Ideas, Hook

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• Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never will be such a thrust so long as you're enacting a story that says the gods made the world for man. For as long as you enact that story, Mother Culture will demand increased food production today- and promise population control tomorrow.

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Men, Long

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.137, Bantam

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• I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

  Bill Ayers

  Faces, Taught, Students

  "Which Way The Wind Blows: Bill Ayers On Obama". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 18, 2008.

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• Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Distance, Waiting

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• ... the death of the spirit which threatens every man unless he is conscious of the danger and has a real purpose which can keep it alive and enable it to thrust its way through the choking weeds and thorns to the air and to the sun

  Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

  Inspirational, Weed, Real

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• Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Lines, Born, Made

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• Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Jesus, Pain, Choices

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Spring, Fall

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• Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Desire, Causes

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• The whole thrust of yogic philosophical and scientific inquiry has therefore been to examine the nature of being, with a view to learning to respond to the stresses of life without so many tremors and troubles.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Stress, Philosophical, Views

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.15, Rodale

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• Each of us, even the lowliest and most insignificant among us, was uprooted from his innermost existence by the almost constant volcanic upheavals visited upon our European soil and, as one of countless human beings, I can't claim any special place for myself except that, as an Austrian, a Jew, writer, humanist and pacifist, I have always been precisely in those places where the effects of the thrusts were most violent.

  Stefan Zweig

  Special, Upheaval, Soil

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