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• All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

  Ali Smith

  Eye, Broken, Might

  Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• One thus sees that a new kind of theory is needed which drops these basic commitments and at most recovers some essential features of the older theories as abstract forms derived from a deeper reality in which what prevails in unbroken wholeness.

  David Bohm

  Commitment, Reality, Essentials

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.18, Routledge

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• The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Views, Hands, People

  "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1995.

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• Anyone who refuses to marry is shrinking his farmwork, wasting the seed, and leaving idle the appropiate tools created by God; he sins against the purpose of creation and wisdom visible in the evidence of natural structure. The man who refuses to marry has severed a chain of being, a previously unbroken chain linking his own existence to that of Adam.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

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• Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Powerful, Unique, Years

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• Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Christmas, New Year

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• The seeds of today's runaway government were planted when it was decided that government should help those who can't help themselves. From that modest, compassionate beginning to today's out-of-control mega-state, there's a straight, unbroken line. Once the door was open, once it was settled that the government should help some people at the expense of others, there was no stopping it.

  Harry Browne

  Government, Doors, People

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• When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.

  Frederic Goudy

  Running, Perfect, Design

  Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Christian, Helping

  Lysa TerKeurst (2014). “The Best Yes: Making Wise Decisions in the Midst of Endless Demands”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There were no pre-adamic men in the line of Adam... I am not a scientist. I do not profess to know anything but Jesus Christ, and him crucified, and the principles of his gospel. If, however, there are some things in the strata of the earth indicating there were men before Adam, they were not the ancestors of Adam.

  Marion G. Romney

  Jesus, Fall, Son

  "Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney".

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• Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Grateful, Grief

  Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

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• Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Ocean, Space

  Charles Darwin (2006). “Voyage of the Beagle”, p.548, National Geographic Books

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• If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Blue, Color

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole, unbroken units, they must feel and know themselves to be one, not only with God and humanity, but also with nature.

  Friedrich Frobel

  Destiny, Humanity, Environmental

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• Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

  August Weismann

  Science, Live For Today, Alive

  August Weismann, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Selmar Schönland, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley (1889). “Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems”

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• There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

  Rene Dubos

  Race, Mind, Body

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• All Thy works with joy surround Thee, God of glory, Lord of Love; Stars and angels sing around Thee, Center of unbroken praise. Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flowery meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in Thee.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Stars, Angel, Sea

  Henry Van Dyke, “Hymn Of Joy”

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• The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Past, Air, Bird

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• It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

  Lev Grossman

  Numbers, Play, Fantasy

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners.

  Daniel Dennett

  Life, Spring, Perspective

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• Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

  Walter Scott

  Horse, Land, Spurs

  Sir Walter Scott “Works”

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• A license cannot be revoked because a man is red-headed or because he was divorced, except for a calling, if such there be, for which red-headedness or an unbroken marriage may have some rational bearing. If a State licensing agency lays bare its arbitrary action, or if the State law explicitly allows it to act arbitrarily, that is precisely the kind of State action which the Due Process Clause forbids.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Men, Agency, Law

  "Barsky v. Board of Regents of the University, 347 U.S. 442". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 26, 1954.

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• There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.

  Peter Drucker

  Promise, Overcoming, Spheres

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.36, Routledge

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• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

  Winston Churchill

  Stars, Night, Race

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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