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I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

Alan Lee

Heart, Rivers, Tree

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The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

A. B. Simpson

Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

Joyce Appleby

Details, Dozen, Coherence

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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Henry Walter Bates

Animal, Forests, Common

Henry Walter Bates (1875). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

Felix Baumgartner

Home, Wish, World

"CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. December 26, 2012.

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As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have maintained this stand throughout the whole period, including WW2, as a Conscientious Objector.Worked to achieve Peace since. It is necessary for individuals to take this stand and maintain it. War never solves anything - it accentuates any problem, whatever it is, and makes matters worse. There is no moral or humanitarian justification for it.

Donald Saunders

War, Men, Support

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Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

George Mason

Country, People, Second Amendment

"The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.

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In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

David Amram

Atmosphere, Church, Musician

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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

Naz?m Hikmet

Mean, Squirrels, Laughing

Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.

Roland Joffe

Stupid, Silly, Stories

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If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Martina Navratilova

Stay Strong, Quiet, Lied

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The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

Geoffrey Faber

Tunes, Doe, Pay

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If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

Rajneesh

Truth, Apathy, Found

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One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

Martin Buber

Order, Mindfulness, Able

Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.207, Routledge

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To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.

Masao Abe

Thinking, Views, Practice

Masao Abe, William R. LaFleur (1989). “Zen and Western Thought”, p.57, University of Hawaii Press

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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

Richard P. Feynman

Writing, Wine, Glasses

"The Feynman Lectures on Physics (volume I; lecture 3: "The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences")". Book by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, 1964.

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I had thought joy to be rather synonymous with happiness, but it seems now to be far less vulnerable than happiness. Joy seems to be a part of an unconditional wish to live, not holding back because life may not meet our preferences and expectations. Joy seems to be a function of the willingness to accept the whole, and to show up to meet with whatever is there. It has a kind of invincibility that attachment to any particular outcome would deny us.

Rachel Naomi Remen

Attachment, Expectations, Joy

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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently... And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Saint Francis de Sales

Heart, Mindfulness, Would Be

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Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

Thomas Merton

Love, Perfect, Emotion

Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.26, University of Notre Dame Pess

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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

Henrik Ibsen

Love, Giving, Mind

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I'm taking T.O., every day... He gives me the whole football field.

Michael Irvin

Sports, Football, Giving

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In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

Poppy Z. Brite

Dog, School, Long

"Poppy Z. Brite: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.

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I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

Martha Smith

Thinking, Numbers, Issues

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This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

David Viscott

America, People, Trying

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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Hans Kung

Important, Synthesis, Theology

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