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THIS EDITION: find

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Quoted In The Grove:
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
~Veronica Roth

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you’re certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you’re gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
~Scott Adams

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
~Bill Moyers

EndQuote:
You’ve got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
~Duke Ellington

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Next Exercise Prompt: close

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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
~Macklemore

Flea markets are fun because they are the ultimate treasure hunt. Be open to the fact that you never know what you’ll find. The most beautiful, quirky, funny, scary pieces may not have an intrinsic value.
~Lara Spencer

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
~Wislawa Szymborska

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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~Margaret Mead

If you’re going to commit to that, you’re going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.
~Ryan Reynolds

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
~Satyajit Ray

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Finding out the truth doesn’t always work out for the best!
~Axel

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
~Frank A Clark

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
~Bill Nye

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Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize.
So wake me up when it’s all over ‒ when I’m wiser and I’m older.
All this time I was finding myself and I didn’t know I was lost.
~Avicii

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~George Bernard Shaw

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
~Jacques Barzun

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It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
~Pharrell Williams

As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing… For a full hour do not take even the smallest action for granted. Be aware of every detail of what you can do. Anyone who does this daily for even a short time will have a much greater appreciation for everything he does.
~Zelig Pliskin

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
~Henry Ward Beecher

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I don’t find I’m manic at all. I’m very chill.
~Kirsten Dunst

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
~Lao-Tzu

Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
~Brandon Sanderson

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In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.
~Denis Villeneuve

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
~Ayn Rand

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
~Hermann Hesse

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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
~Joseph Joubert

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
~Robert M Pirsig

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent…
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
~author unknown

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.
~Frank McCourt

I’ve never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
~Judy Garland

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Modernism was born in part out of the need to find fresh ways of expression, to describe a new world that was unlike anything that had gone before.
~Margaret MacMillan

One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.
~Nicolas Cage

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
~Albert Einstein

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One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.
~Patricia Briggs

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~Marcel Proust

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
~Eckhart Tolle

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
~Chuck Palahniuk

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
~Jordan Peterson

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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~Dalai Lama

Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
~Jesse Owens

Give light and people will find the way.
~Ella Baker

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
~Plato

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
~Charles de Gaulle

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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
~Eric Hoffer

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.
~Vivienne Westwood

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened ‒ good, bad, ugly, no matter what ‒ I believe that we’re going to find that we are closer, more connected than we are apart.
~Ruby Bridges

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
~James Truslow Adams

If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.
~John Churton Collins

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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.
~Edward de Bono (Six Thinking Hats)

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
~Bob Parsons (GoDaddy)

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
~Francis Bacon (wise man)

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
~William James

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.
~Ross Perot

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Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.
~William Beveridge

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
~Denis Diderot

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
~Pearl Bailey

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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
~Herman Hesse

To find yourself, think for yourself.
~Socrates

Committing yourself is a way of finding out who you are. A man finds his identity by identifying.
~Robert Terwilliger

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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
~David Bowie

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, ‘I’m proud of what I am and who I am, and I’m just going to be myself.’
~Mariah Carey

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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
~John Irving

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
~Jim Rohn

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
~Jimmy Buffett

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
~Thomas Szasz

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
~James A Michener

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
~Dolly Parton

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Posted From The Grove

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
~Woody Guthrie

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
~William Inge

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Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.
~George Soros

You can’t help people being right for the wrong reasons…This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
~Arthur Koestler

I believe that one of the best ways of getting at truth is reflecting with others who have opposing views and who share your interest in finding the truth rather than being proven right
~Ray Dalio

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.
~Winston Churchill

(A practice used to good effect by Abraham Lincoln. ~Ed Note)

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
~Thiruvalluvar

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A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
~Han Fei

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
~John W Gardner

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
~Gary Snyder

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I’m finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I’m finding myself really angry over what’s happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I’m angry about cap and trade. And I’ve been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.
~Gary Johnson

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
~Groucho Marx

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
~Albert Camus

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
~Carl Sagan

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
~Dorothy Thompson

Finding out the truth is only half of it. It’s what you do with it that matters.
~Tristan Wilds

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
~Thucydides

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There’s nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you’re not a true ally to the person who’s in charge of all that.
~Daniel Day-Lewis

He’s smart allright, and I find he’s a fresh of breath air, but we both know whose President and whose in charge.
~T Rumpledthinskin

Being a nocturnal creature myself, I often find myself in dark alleys or strange places late at night. If there were werewolves around, I’d be likely to run into them, being the night owl that I am.
~Dean Ambrose

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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
~Malcolm Forbes

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.
~Nelson Mandela

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
~Matthew Arnold

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

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If the same punishment is prescribed for two crimes that injure society in different degrees, then men will face no stronger deterrent from committing the greater crime if they find it in their advantage to do so.
~Cesare Beccaria

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There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
~Malcolm Muggeridge (journalist/satirist)

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
~Marcus Aurelius

My sensibility has never been political. The things I find funny are generally apolitical.
~Tim Dillon

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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
~Julius Caesar

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
~Donald Trump

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My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’
~Tupac Shakur

You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way… to get in the way.
~John Lewis

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History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
~John Henrik Clarke

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
~Winston Churchill

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
~Paulo Coelho

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Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?’
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it. You find that out really fast.
~Tom Waits

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
~Frank Herbert

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
~Robert A Heinlein

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We often find far more power in a symbol than in something that is an an actuality.
~Steven Berkoff

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But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
~Nancy Pelosi

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.
~Groucho Marx

I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel his theory out. It drives you up the wall. I think the greatest form of finding out the truth is through fantasy.
~Joseph Fiennes

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
~Thomas Sowell

I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.
~Mel Gibson

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Am I a liberal or conservative? I’m neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I’d like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.
~Soledad O’Brien

In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it’s the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.
~John Coltrane

I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
~Shakira

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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.
~Ronald Reagan

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With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.
~Marielle Heller

We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, ‘Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?’
~Margaret Trudeau

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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
~Ulysses S Grant

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
~Will Rogers

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Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say ‘we,’ I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
~Gael Garcia Bernal

It’s about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can’t find work. It’s about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.
~Nigel Farage

Never mind that Mount Sermon thing. You’ll find that’s for heaven, later. This is still the real world, and a cruel world still makes the rules, than God.
~St Rumpet

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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.
~Gene Luen Yang

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people ‒ black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants ‒ to make up America.
~Judy Garland

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
~Tom Wolfe

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
~Johannes Brahms

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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
~Cardinal Richelieu

Look and you will find it ‒ what is unsought will go undetected.
~Sophocles

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
~Robert Jackson

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If you abuse the public trust, we’re going to find you, and and we’re going to prosecute you.
~Josh Hawley

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.
~Robert D Hare

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
~Donna Leon (crime novelist)

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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
~Frederick Douglass

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
~Chinua Achebe

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If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.
~James Monroe

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.
~Menachem Begin

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A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.
~Malcolm Cowley

Patience, the beggar’s virtue, shall find no harbor here.
~Philip Massinger

A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
~Apollonius of Tyana

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It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.
~Robert Kennedy

You know people talk about federal money as if it falls from heaven. You know we thank heaven for it, but it came out of people’s pockets ‒ and I’ve driven all over Washington, D.C., I cannot find the money tree.
~John Kennedy

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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
~Fidel Castro

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.
~Frida Kahlo

My accent does slip. When I arrived in England in 1978 at 18, I was shocked to find myself ‘the American’ at RADA. The English and the Americans have an intense relationship. They helped us out in the Second World War.
~Mark Rylance

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Sow confusion to reap chaos, then find its remedy in the monarchy of martial law. You can smell the smoke from here, same as before, in ’76.
~author unknown

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad.
~Morrissey

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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
~Margaret Thatcher

If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it’s vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
~Tulsi Gabbard

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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
~T D Jakes

Patriotism is love of country. But you can’t love your country without loving your countrymen and countrywomen. We don’t always have to agree, but we must empower each other, we must find the common ground, we must build bridges across our differences to pursue the common good.
~Cory Booker

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~Duckpix: Barn Find (0:51) the colors, the setting and sounds, it all comes together in 51 seconds

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~Tayseer Alhamanad: Find Nishan (5:58) too real to be a travel video, but wonderful

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~Allesandro Grespan: Find Yours (1:23) a variety of talents on quick display

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~Leanne’s Art Lab: if you’re trying to find your art styleSTOP! (5:35) a meditation on art style while watching something take form

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
~George Bernard Shaw

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
~Mark Caine

Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
~Robert H Schuller

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To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
~Tony Dorsett

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
~Thomas Jefferson

At Uber, we say, ‘Always be hustling.’ Even if you are an introvert and you haven’t got hustle in you, you better get a co-founder who does. And if you haven’t got enough hustle to find a co-founder who’s got hustle, it’s going to be tough. You’ve got to have a little hustle in you.
~Travis Kalanick

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When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
~Charles Buxton

You have power over your mind ‒ not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
~Marcus Aurelius

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Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.
~Nahnatchka Khan

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.
~Ralph Marston

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I’m an ocean, because I’m really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
~Christina Aguilera

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
~Warren Buffett

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Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.
~Kevin Plank

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it’s a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there’s an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
~Ray Kurzweil

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next.
Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
~Denis Waitley

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
~Mary Kay Ash

Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.
~Charles Forsman

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
~Arsene Wenger

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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
~Warren Buffett

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If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.
~Tony Robbins

While you’re going through this process of trying to find the satisfaction in your work, pretend you feel satisfied. Tell yourself you had a good day. Walk through the corridors with a smile rather than a scowl. Your positive energy will radiate. If you act like you’re having fun, you’ll find you are having fun.
~Jean Chatzky

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It’s just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you’re doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.
~Sandra Bullock

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
~John Wanamaker

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There’s no path to success. Everyone constructs their own path. The important thing is to follow your heart. Find your niche, is my best advice.
~Karol G (Colombian singer, panel discussion)

I, myself, have tried following people around me, and I’ve got lost and ended up feeling emptiness rather than a sense of accomplishment. I’d like everyone to find their own role models within themselves.
~Jisoo (Blackpink)

The only thing I have learned is to find strength in yourself. No one can help you, no one can do anything for you, you have to do the work yourself.
~Marina Abramovic (Serbian conceptual artist)

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Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions ‒ Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.
~Chanakya

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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
~Sam Walton

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
~Steve Jobs

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
~H Jackson Brown, Jr

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
~Pearl S Buck

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
~Julia Child

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Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already there to follow.
~Rasheed Ogunlaru

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.
~Kalpana Chawla

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
~Alexander the Great

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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
~Charles Schwab

One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.
~Nick Saban (commentator)

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What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
~Arnold Palmer (PGA)

To find a man’s true character, play golf with him.
~P G Wodehouse

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It’s like everything in football ‒ and life. You need to look, you need to think, you need to move, you need to find space, you need to help others. It’s very simple in the end.
~Johan Cruyff

Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things ‒ blocking and tackling.
~Vince Lombardi

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But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
~Enzo Ferrari (motorsports)

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So many people condemn me for risk taking, but I find it sort of hypocritical because everybody takes risks. Even the absence of activity could be viewed as a risk.
~Alex Honnold (rock climber)

Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.
~Odell Beckham, Jr (NFL)

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.
~Tom Brady

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine.
~Walter White (Breaking Bad)

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
~George Orwell

When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.
~Magic Johnson

I’d been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I’d always been within arm’s reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.
~Sarah Dessen

Every single one of us will have our life interrupted, whether it’s by the ripcord of a diagnosis or some other kind of heartbreak or trauma that brings us to the floor. We need to find a way to live in the in-between place, managing whatever body and mind we currently have.
~Suleika Jaouad

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
~Tori Amos

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don’t find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
~David Leonhardt

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~Agnes Repplier

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I long for the countryside. That’s where I get my calm and tranquillity ‒ from being able to come and find a spot of green.
~Emilia Clarke

I don’t have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
~Queen Latifah

I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.
~Paula Cole

All my life, I have been a positive thinker… I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event ‒ no matter how tragic ‒ one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.
~Zsa Zsa Gabor

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
~Martha Washington

A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.
~Tom Wilson

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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
~Zendaya

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
~Denis Waitley

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We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.
~Tulsi Tanti

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things ‒ not the great occasions ‒ that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~Bob Hope

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
~Daniel Dennett

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
~Hafez

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§ VIDEO:
There are definitely things about acting that have helped me growing up and finding myself, but there are also things that make it a bit more difficult. I guess I do allow myself to explore more when I know that, at the end of the day, if I really wanted to, I could just play a different person all day and be fine with that.
~Rowan Blanchard

Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you’re in.
~Karen Gillan

Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
~Meryl Streep

I do find that there’s a fine balance between preparation and seeing what happens naturally.
~Timothee Chalamet

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I’ve done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one.
~Joshua Leonard

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.
~Barbara Stanwyck

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My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.
~Jennifer Ehle

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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
~Bram Stoker

I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: ‘I’ve crossed oceans of time to find you.’ It was worth playing the role just to say that line.
~Gary Oldman

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I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I’m naturally blonde, as I’ve only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it’s also easier for people to assume you’re a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress ‒ well, maybe not ditsy.
~Holliday Grainger

Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.
~Nicholas Young

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.
~William Shakespeare

I didn’t have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course ‒ I always wanted to be a film director.
~Elia Kazan

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.
~Quentin Tarantino

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I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra’s blood ‒ really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I’m encountering or by how to do something.
~Phil Keoghan (NZ tv)

It’s impossible to overvalue the importance of television ‒ both in its serious and less serious functions. It’s one of our most important ways of finding out the truth ‒ and also of changing the world, and finding out what in the world needs changing. It’s also an immense bringer of joy ‒ I learnt how to laugh through television, and now my children and I, every day of every week, share the joy and stupidity of TV shows ‒ they actually make us HAPPY
~Richard Curtis

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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it’s the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
~Faith Prince

People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
~Salma Hayek

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.
~Jean Paul Gaultier

I find beauty in imperfection.
~Rachel Morrison

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect ‒ they are much more interesting.
~Marc Jacobs

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
~Saint Augustine

Celebrate the idea that you don’t fit in. Find your own fit. Stay unique.
~Betsey Johnson

You just have to find that thing that’s special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
~Dr Dre

Find your passion, set a goal, go to work, evaluate, reassess, and repeat.
~Elana Meyers

If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.
~Lykke Li (Swedish musician/model)

Stick to the classics, and you can’t ever go wrong. I see old ladies on the street who have fabulous style and realize it’s because they are probably wearing really classic items that they’ve had for years and years. I think if you find something that suits you, you should just stick to it.
~Alexa Chung

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My fans love me; they’ve made me this sex symbol. I don’t feel I am, but they feel that way. They find me attractive, like I’m a sexy dude. I try my best to make them believe the illusion.
~Romeo Santos

Modeling really helps me find my confidence and break out of my shell.
~Jordyn Woods

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…a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~Hans Urs von Balthasar

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
~J Paul Getty

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~Omeleto: Customer Service (12:07) finding ‘that’ song

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~Omeleto: The Bell Never Rings Again (15:06) litany of imagined dating possibilities, song and dance topping it off

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~Short of the Week: Lost & Found (7:38) worthy yarn to the end

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I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
~Ferdinand Porsche

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
~Sugar Ray Leonard

I chased my dreams. In the end, find what gets you excited and chase it.
~Guion Bluford (1st black into space)

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~Oscar Wilde

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~T E Lawrence (…of Arabia)

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.
~Charles Lindbergh

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.
~Adyashanti

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache ‒ it’s a given. What’s not a given is the way you choose to get through it all.
~Rashida Jones

I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.
~Clemantine Wamariya

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
~A P J Abdul Kalam

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It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
~Baker Mayfield

It’s your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don’t take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
~Betty White

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Me personally, I’m a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
~Kurt Sutter

As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
~Tadashi Shoji

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§ MUSIC:
It’s all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that’s a lifelong quest.
~David Sanborn

I would say that I’m finding my voice in more ways than one.
~Boz Scaggs

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…You can find people. It’s like those acrobatic displays…. Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn’t really matter who they are, as long as they’re there and you don’t let them go away without finding someone else.
~Nick Hornby

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
~Ace Frehley (KISS)

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My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me.
~Chris Brown

I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself ‒ not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
~Keri Hilson

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Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That’s the power of music.
~LZ Granderson

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
~Judy Collins

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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
~Dale Carnegie

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go ‒ purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
~Tina Turner

My favorite experiences have all been finding myself at one point in a timeline and going in both directions, just discovering at my own pace. If I could admit to be playing some kind of long game, and strategizing this, I would.
~Blake Mills (guitarist, multi-etc)

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The essential truth is that sometimes you’re worried that they’ll find out it’s a fluke, that you don’t really have it. You’ve lost the muse or ‒ the worst dread ‒ you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.
~Robin Williams

I do not seek. I find.
~Pablo Picasso

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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
~Iris Murdoch

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
~Shuler Hensley

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My lyrics aren’t offensive. Some people find everything offensive.
~Tyler, The Creator

I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
~Jean-Michel Basquiat

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
~Samuel Beckett

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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
~Amy Poehler

Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.
~Nahnatchka Khan

I find ambition really attractive too ‒ if someone’s good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.
~Harry Styles

When we find a purpose that is bigger than ourselves, we become more powerful in our ability to create.
~Jack Delosa

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
~William H McRaven

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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
~Bob Dylan

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.
~Leonardo da Vinci

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If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can’t worry about all the ‘no’s, because I believe there’s a yes, and I’ve been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
~Mara Brock Akil

Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.
~Julie Foudy

Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.
~Michael Feinstein

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A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
~John Henry Newman

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
~Claude Monet

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~Junichiro Tanizaki

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In a time when everybody is talking about finding oneself, how do you find yourself? I wanted to do it as literally as possible. How do I prove that I’m concentrating on myself? I prove it by doing something physical. I can bite myself. I can burn the hair off my chest. The goal? Yes, I have a body. I have this thing that people call the self. Maybe I can change the self.
~Vito Acconci (performance artist)

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Life is not about finding yourself. It’s mostly about chocolate.
~Darynda Jones

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Can’t Find My Way Home

~dac10012: Blind Faith introduces the song in Hyde Park, London (5:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJJnA6zEcGk

‒or‒

~Ant Varandonis: Eric Clapton ‒ Steve Winwood (5:01) seasoned by the years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L82II1lNjo

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~Charlie Hansen: Seek // Find (4:43) abandoned mining town, discovery, music to suit, in B&W

‒or‒

~Imogen Heap: You Know Where to Find Me (4:57) everywhere

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~Letupita725GD: I’ve Got To Find A Way (1:41) Li’l Pony cartoon confection

‒or‒

~Andrea Vanzo: Find a Melody (2:57) playing piano bareback

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~Daniel Caesar: We Find Love (5:25) in two parts

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~RISE9094: Drake • Find Your Love (3:32) …in a party setting

‒or‒

~A Tribe Called Quest: Find A Way (3:45) …rapping to gyrating bodies

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~Disney IT: Hannah Montana • You’ll always find your way back home (3:44) high energy cuteness

‒or‒

~DisneyMusic VEVO: Milo Manheim, Meg Donnelly • Gotta Find Where I Belong (2:44) teen angst meets identity crisis with good intention

‒or‒

~Nick Jonas: Find You (3:38) desert/beach-side love angst

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~Tracy Lawrence: Find Out Who You’re Friends Are (3:49) …in hard times

‒or‒

~Dylan Scott: Can’t Have Mine ‒ (Find You A Girl) (3:14) good-hearted wishes, but…, country style

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~P I R: Lou Rawls • You’ll Never Find Another Love (3:56) Soul Train classic

‒or‒

~Warmer Music Videos: Pablo Cruise • Love Will Find A Way (3:37) 1978

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~Enigma: Principles Of Lust: Sadeness/Find Love/Sadeness (11:45) low intensity mystery, journey thru moods, images, music

‒or‒

~The Divine Matrix: Enya • So I Could Find My Way (4:26) serene, to garishly pretty, Kinkaid-style garden settings

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~Big Mountain: I Would Find A Way (4:08) island music

‒or‒

~Jah Cure: Never Find (3:28) reggae

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~Christopher Martin: You’ll Never Find (3:59) lush setting, but best friends?

‒or‒

~Mahogany: Teddy Swims • Will It Find Me (3:41) nice song, sweet voice, rough exterior

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~Sherwin Gardner: Find Me Here (2:06) upbeat gratitude for life’s kindness

‒or‒

~R E M: Find The River (3:56) thoughtful, mournful

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~Drew Holdomb & The Neighbors: Find Your People (3:10) friends and neighbors, a celebration

‒or‒

~Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real: Find Yourself (4:10) friends again, different message

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I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
~Marilyn Monroe

Im working on just finding a boyfriend right now.
~Kylie

Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
~Harold S Kushner

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
~D H Lawrence

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Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.
~Loretta Young

You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.
~Anais Nin

Don’t find love, let it find you. It’s called falling in love because you don’t force yourself to fall, you just do.
~Taylor Swift

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
~Paulo Coelho

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
~Bertrand Russell

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We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
~Sam Keen

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
~Thomas Merton

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.
~Criss Jami

(Exercise: Altho not found in the original quote, please note how a comma inserted either before, or after, the word ‘you’ in the above sentence would have changed its direction and focus.)

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I dream about finding an exception and finding someone who would make me believe in love and realize that it can work out.
~Taylor Swift

Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
~Don Miguel Ruiz

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It’s about finding someone that you can share things with.
~Freddie Prinze, Jr

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To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
~Ambrose

We lose ourselves in things we love. We find ourselves there, too.
~Kristin Martz

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Where there is love, there is no question. Where there is a question, there is no love. Then it becomes a business. So love is the totality of the self. My dear folks, if you cannot find yourself, you can never find anybody you want to find.
~Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Don’t worry about finding your soul mate. Find yourself.
~Jason Evert

Go find yourself first
So you can also find me.
~Rumi

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The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
~Douglas Horton

There’s a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can’t just creep in. You’ll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you’ve worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn’t live there anymore.
~Jennifer Winget

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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
~Bob Marley

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
~Lord Byron

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone ‒ we find it with another.
~Thomas Merton

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
~Maya Angelou

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The feeling of losing oneself in somebody’s arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.
~Katarina Witt

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
~Leo Buscaglia

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Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: ‘here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy.’
~David Gemmell

The Warrior of the Light is a believer. Because he believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.
~Paulo Coelho

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
~Rumi

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Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.
~Susane Colasanti

I’ve never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
~Trevor Noah

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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
~Henri Nouwen

If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out for you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.
~Franz Kafka

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
~Princess Diana

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
~Edna St Vincent Millay

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
~Jean de la Bruyere

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don’t try to find it, it’s there already.
~Sofia Coppola

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Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
~Rick Ross

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
~Theodor Adorno

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Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.
~Kathryn Kuhlman

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
~Rollo Armstrong

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
~Anne Frank

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My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
~Carnie Wilson

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
~Rita Rudner

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
~Robert Anderson

I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don’t think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.
~Enrique Iglesias

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
~Anna Louise Strong

It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.
~Lisa Kleypas

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I’m looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate to on all levels ‒ someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I’m not searching for that. But I still like knowing it will be out there sometime later.
~Josh Hartnett

When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I’m prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
~Sam Smith

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.
~Ken Wilber

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
~Rita Mae Brown

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I would ask every man and every woman who’s had the blessing of having children, ‘Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?’ To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, ‘I forbid you from loving this person’?
~Maya Angelou

Finding someone to share your life with is one of the most important things a human can do and was preached to me by my mother.
~Johnny Weir

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
~Rumi

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How many times have you said, ‘This is it. I’ve finally found my one true love’? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing ‒ the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture ‒ can make love shatter, stall or fade away.
~Haruki Murakami

We all have this fantasy of finding our one true love who’s going to be the perfect fit. It’s just not a reality.
~Ethan Hawke

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
~Wislawa Szymborska

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Love is nothing other than finding the truth.
~Rumi

Take responsibility for finding your one true love
~Bo Sanchez

If finding true love was easy we’d all have a lot more free time.
~John Avery

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You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
~Dr Seuss

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Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
~Bill Russell

Don’t be silly. Loving is easy. It’s finding someone to love you back that’s hard.
~Sabrina Jeffries

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I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
~Ron White

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.
~Robert Breault

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Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest. Love is not finding someone to live with; it’s finding someone you can’t live without.
~Raphael Montanez Ortiz

What we seek in love is finding someone with whom we feel safe to reveal our true self.
~Karen Salmansohn

And you may find somebody kind to help and understand you
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along
So maybe I’ll see you there
We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares, and go
Downtown
~Petula Clark

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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
~Max Lucado

You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah
~Boonaa Mohammed

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Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.
~Tony Robbins

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Finding him was like finding someone I didn’t know I was searching for. He’d come into my life too late, and now was leaving too soon. I remembered him telling he’d give up everything for me. He already had.
~Becca Fitzpatrick

Isn’t this the best part of breakin’ up? Finding someone else you can’t get enough of. Someone who wants to be with you, too.
~Liz Phair (Why Can’t I?)

If you’re having trouble finding someone to play with, why don’t you just go play with yourself.
~Amy Dumas

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Eventually, if you’re lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have.
~Robert Breault

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.
~Brandon Boyd

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love
~Robert Fulghum

Finding someone who’s willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
~Marilyn Manson

My parents never told me I couldn’t do anything, I remember watching superhero movies and saying, ‘I wish I had superpowers.’ And my dad said, ‘You do. You just have to find them.’
~Caleb McLaughlin

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he’d learned in three years.
~Frank Butler

Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
~Carlo Collodi

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
~Honore de Balzac

We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.
~Adrienne C Moore

You find inspiration everywhere. The best inspiration is the people you grew up with. Nobody else knows about you than when you were just regular, everyday people. That’s where most of it comes from.
~Bray Wyatt

It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.
~Cynthia Rylant

You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.
~Bob Marley

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
~Baltasar Gracian

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It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.
~Bojan Krkic

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George A Moore

Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
~Troian Bellisario

The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
~Alan Watts

I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful… You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble … That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.
~David Hockney

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The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.
~Sharon Salzberg

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life’s critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one’s heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly?
~Walker Percy

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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure… Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki

Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
~Vaclav Havel

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Satyagraha is the pursuit of truth. My grandfather believed that truth should be the cornerstone of everybody’s life and that we must dedicate our lives to pursuing truth, to finding out the truth in our lives. And so his entire philosophy was the philosophy of life.
~Arun Manilal Gandhi

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
~Horace Mann

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
~Maya Angelou

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it ‒ memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
~Tad Williams

It’s not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.
~Jason Behr

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Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions.
~Sarah Gavron

The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
~Kristin Armstrong

Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity.
~Sean Stephenson

You really don’t find too many good people. You really don’t. Keep them around.
~Playboi Carti

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Find people who will make you better.
~Michelle Obama

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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
~W H Auden

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~Samuel Johnson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

A connection should be natural. Just be yourself, and you will find someone who likes you for exactly what you are.
~BJ the Chicago Kid

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To find a friend one must close one eye ‒ to keep him, two.
~Norman Douglas

You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
~Elizabeth Taylor

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
~Joseph Brodsky

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
~Elizabeth I

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.
~Robert Breault

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Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.
~Chris Evans

I’ve come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren’t comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It’s a contradiction.
~Wesley Snipes

It’s a life’s journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
~Mariska Hargitay

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Plaza de la Soledad” is a documentary about Carmen, Lety, Raquel and Esther, four strong women ‒ middle-aged and older ‒ who want to break a vicious circle that began with abuse and abandonment suffered from an early age. They simply want to have a better life. The film follows their quest to find true love and their capacity to transform themselves.
~Maya Goded

A conviction that you are a daughter of God gives you a feeling of comfort in your self-worth. It means that you can find strength… A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do
~James E Faust

Every character that I play, even if it’s a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her ‒ you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn’t just come from the physical strength of a woman.
~Priyanka Chopra

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Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I’m pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.
~Adam Sandler

Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
~Zig Ziglar

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
~Lana Turner

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there’s no telling what you will find.
~James Carville

Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.
~Rod Stewart

My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
~Rodney Dangerfield

A hard man is good to find.
~Mae West

Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.
~Daniel Craig

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
~Carl Reiner

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.
~Steven Wright

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
~Jay Leno

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
~William Lyon Phelps

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We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.
~Jonathan Sacks

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
~William Wordsworth

When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
~Benjamin Franklin

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Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.
~Iyanla Vanzant

But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.
~Sarah Dessen

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
~Ella Maillart

In the end you don’t so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
~Robert Brault

Whatever it takes to find the real you, don’t be daunted if the rest of the world looks on in shock.
~Stephen Richards

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
~C S Lewis

It’s a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end.
~Bessie Smith

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
~Rachel Naomi Remen

I am not sure what lonliness is,” she said. “If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone.” “What do you fear then?” he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. “Never finding myself again.”
~Mary Balogh

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.
~Rollo May

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Glow
© Silvia Trujillo

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
~Franz Kafka

For me, Pemako* symbolizes the place that you find only when your journey has changed you into the person who can finally recognize it — meandering homeward, finding without looking.
~Dave Royer

When your world falls apart and you’re left with just yourself, you’re forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.
~Gabrielle Roth


*Hidden Falls, in Tsanpo Gorge, Tibetan Himalayas, deepest canyon on Earth; seen by one outsider only

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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
~John Steinbeck

Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.
~Ellen DeGeneres

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
~Isaac Asimov

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
~Plutarch

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
~Mason Cooley

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It seems that we’re better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

You can’t grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.
~John C Maxwell

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you…
~Casey Stengel

Creatures which, lacking mankind’s superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.
~Terry Pratchett

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.
~Werner Herzog

In tragedy, it’s hard to find a good resolution; it’s not black and white: it’s a big fog of gray.
~Paul Dano

Life isn’t black and white. It’s a million gray areas, don’t you find?
~Ridley Scott

I don’t find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.
~Vetrimaaran

One must look for one thing only, to find many.
~Cesare Pavese

I was once referred to in a Kirkus review as a “northern Michigan version of Andre Dubus.” My editor called me after the review came out and asked if I was okay with that. What part? I wondered. Finding myself in the same sentence with Andre Dubus? What could be better than that? Or perhaps ‒ and more likely, my editor meant being pigeonholed as a writer of this remote region “mostly ignored by the rest of the world,” as Jim Harrison says.
~Jack Driscoll

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn’t ask to be put here. I’ve been lucky finding myself here.
~Morris West

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
~Angelina Jolie

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I actually enjoyed getting lost in Japan’s backroads, finding myself in a wasabi farm.
~Travis Rice

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.
~Jonathan Agnew

I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
~Edmonia Lewis

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@Writers Platform

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
~Robert J Sawyer

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.
~Matthew Lesko

I build my stories character-first, and so whether it’s a monster or a ghost or a serial killer, the fear of something dark interrupting life has just always been something that matters to me as a storyteller, or what I keep finding myself drawn back to.
~Bryan Bertino

I noticed the different kids were always put down by other people and it would cause them to become almost violent with themselves. It’s not really necessary; there’s a way to find strength in yourself, and for me it was writing. That was sort of my release and my escape, so the term ‘Knives and Pens’ to me was like a choice. You can either create, or become violent, and maybe go down a dark road.
~Andy Biersack

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
~M Night Shyamalan

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.
~Ayrton Senna (motorsports)

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
~Socrates

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.
~Carol Ann Duffy

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
~Sigmund Freud

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I made a big conscious decision in my life when I was writing all these big action movies and doing different kind of fare but very proud of it, I was finding myself less and less passionate about doing it.
~Ric Roman Waugh

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
~Gore Vidal

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I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.
~Terry Goodkind

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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‘first chapters’. I have indeed written many.
~J R R Tolkien

I guess there’s just a part of me that’s not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.
~Adrian Tomine

You can always find a distraction if you’re looking for one.
~Tom Kite

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of ‘inspiration,’ and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.
~Harriet Martineau

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~Marlene Dietrich

I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you’re reporting, but it’s very similar. You’re finding out the truth.
~Katia Winter

I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it’s so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining ‒ it’s a complicated and varied beast, journalism.
~David Remnick

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down ‒ literally or otherwise.
~Robert Scheer

If you look hard enough, you’ll find something good about me and say it.
~Jimmy Swaggart

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that’s positive and celebrate that!
~Tyra Banks

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it’s difficult to find your own identity.
~Sia

You don’t need validation from other people. You’ve gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.
~Dawn Richard

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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
~Anne Lamott

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
~Robert Foster Bennett

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Prewritten Prompt: find

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I’ll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I’ll go there.
~Barbara Brown Taylor

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
~Catherine Of Siena

I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God ‒ by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
~Bob Brown

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If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.
~Ayya Khema

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?
~Clifford D Simak

Really, it is the Lord who carries the cross, for He knows how to make the soul content with little or no consolation and always to find strength in the words…”Thy will be done.”
~Rose Philippine Duchesne

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The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.
~Thomas Merton

A Godly leader … finds strength by realizing his weakness
finds authority by being under authority
finds direction by laying down his plans
finds vision by seeing the needs of others
finds credibility by being an example
finds loyalty by expressing compassion
finds honor by being faithful
finds greatness by being a servant
~Roy Lessin

Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
~Saint Ignatius

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
~Blaise Pascal

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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
~Thomas Merton

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature ‒ trees, flowers, grass ‒ grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~Mother Teresa

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.
~Elisabeth Elliot

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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine… God ordains the death penalty!
~Rafael Cruz

I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It’s not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace. And if that sounds heretical, my source is pretty good: Matthew, Five to Seven, The Sermon on the Mount.
~Frank Sinatra

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
~Desmond Tutu

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You can hide from the devil, but he’ll always find you.
~Allen Iverson

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
~St Jerome

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I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
~Lady Gaga

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
~Swami Vivekananda

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May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
~Charles Spurgeon

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.
~Joel Osteen

I have a strong belief in God… I find religion to be a very personal thing… I am also very spiritual.
~Sela Ward

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
~Deborah Norville

What is magic? In the deepest sense, magic is an experience. It’s the experience of finding oneself alive within a world that is itself alive. It is the experience of contact and communication between oneself and something that is profoundly different from oneself: a swallow, a frog, a spider weaving its web.
~David Abram

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.
~Michelangelo

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
~John Burroughs

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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
~John Muir

We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry.
~Rudolf Steiner

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Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.
~Marilyn vos Savant

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
~Barbara McClintock

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
~Saint Bernard

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~L Wolfe Gilbert

I’m finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.
~Deepak Chopra

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
~Queen Elizabeth II

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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
~Carl Sagan

I’m really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what’s around the next corner and what’s just beyond what we already know. It’s part of our being; it’s part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.
~Alan G Poindexter

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
~Elon Musk

I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
~Ingmar Bergman

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Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

The spiral in a snail’s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
~Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
~Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
~Niels Bohr

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You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
~Mary Leakey (anthropologist)

Just because we can’t find a solution it doesn’t mean that there isn’t one.
~Andrew Wiles (mathematician)

I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I’m now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.
~Eric Allman

It is very unfair, and on social media you have all these keyboard warriors who just type something, and they never say it to my face. That’s very weak I find.
~Max Verstappen

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules ‒ not just for governments but for private companies.
~Bill Gates

We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we’d like to be.
~Alexander Karp (data mining/analytics)

If you are curious, you’ll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.
~Erno Rubik

I’m curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.
~Agnes Varda

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
~Walt Disney

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.
~Abraham Maslo

Curiosity is the essence of human existence. ‘Who are we? Where are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?’… I don’t know. I don’t have any answers to those questions. I don’t know what’s over there around the corner. But I want to find out.
~Gene Cernan (astronaut)

Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!
~Katherine Johnson

With the education I had, all I could do was work as a burro, in whatever I could find: shoeshine boy, janitor, dishwasher, waiter, bartender, cashier, bricklayer, painter.
~Vicente Fernandez (Mexican singer/actor)

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
~Arthur Ashe

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
~Voltaire

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
~Brian Tracy

We live in a society that wants to label you with a color, sexuality, religion, or ethnicity. It divides us, but it also allows us to find pride in our identity.
~Logan Browning

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
~Ossie Davis

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars.
~Sam Phillips

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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.
~Cecil Rhodes

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
~Toni Morrison

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.
~Shirley Chisholm

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§ The Exercise:

her eyes on the horizon #18

apprenticed to miss liberty
the statue? your question
your states once a bastion
one nation under god

no, to answer your question
but yes, i miss liberty
find our union an unlearned lesson
don’t tread on me, past tense: trod

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once upon a time

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pro•verbs

nothing pretends
like a platitude
nothing misapprehends
like bad attitudes
judge other worlds
with great latitude
find for kindness instead
of true rectitude
endings in pleasure
treasured with gratitude

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the difference

structure vs sculpture
fog bank vs cloud
fondness and passion
thinking and out-loud
wishing and doing
jingo vs proud
glowing warmth of a fireplace
against history’s furnace
a new present for the crowds

Preparing for a return to Oregon’s Rogue Valley, with the uncertainties ahead, it will take time before work on the Post & Review can resume. This editor has resolved not to waste time butting heads with current visions of empire, but is offering this short story with a different view of differences.

Bartok and The Bard At The Bar-None Saloon

…also the story that gave BarTalk his name in There.com

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone ‒ but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
~Walter Anderson

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
~Ernest Hemingway

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ‒ but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.
~Jen Sincero

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
~Marcel Proust

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
~Marcel Pagnol

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I used to have all these plans and think ‘Ah, I have my whole life figured out’, but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
~Q’orianka Kilcher

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.
~Post Malone

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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
~C S Lewis

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
~Pablo Neruda

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It’s important to find your tribe.
~RuPaul

The more you embrace the weird crazy things about you, the more you find your tribe.
~Jinkx Monsoon

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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I’ve never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you’re not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
~Elizabeth Berkley

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker… but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
~Michelle Pfeiffer

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I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.
~Joe Tye

Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.
~Margo Price

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Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it’ll come find you.
~Estelle

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
~Amos Bronson Alcott

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~Roy L Smith

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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
~Norman Vincent Peale

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
~Henry Ford

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
~Henry David Thoreau

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.
~Ray Bradbury

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We all do ‘do, re, mi,’ but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
~Louis Armstrong

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
~Zhuangzi

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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
~Epictetus

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
~Philip Sidney

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Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
~Terry Pratchett

Angels are like diamonds. They can’t be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
~Jaclyn Smith

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
~Sylvia Plath

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
~Richard Bach

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Daring to me is having courage; it’s a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.
~Uma Thurman

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
~Katherine Dunham

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The best way to find out whether you’re on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
~Marcus Buckingham

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
~Dag Hammarskjold

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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
~Golda Meir

Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them.
~Ruskin Bond

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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.
~Lucretius

After an eternity of seeking, the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
~Joy Page (comma added for clarity ~Ed Note)

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
~Aristotle

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~Emily Dickinson

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Do what you will while you’re able, find what it is that you seek.
~Xavier Rudd

Never be so focused on what you’re looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
~Ann Patchett

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When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.
~Joyce Meyer

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
~Dale Carnegie

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We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn’t spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!
~Nicole Williams

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
~Richard M Nixon

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I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
~Miles Davis

Theoretically there is no absolute proof that one’s awakening in the morning (the finding oneself again in the saddle of one’s personality) is not really a quite unprecedented event, a perfectly original birth.
~Vladimir Nabokov

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Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.
~Carrie Underwood

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.
~Martha Beck

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It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.’
~Aldous Huxley

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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THIS EDITION: echo

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Quoted In The Grove:
When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one ‒ before the echo returns to its source.
~Pete Dunne

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,
Could field or grove, could any spot of earth,
Show to his eye an image of the pangs
Which it hath witnessed,‒render back an echo
Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!
~William Wordsworth

All truth contains an echo of sadness.
~Charlotte Riddell

EndQuote:
Coleridge cried; “O God, how glorious it is to live!” Renan asks, “O God, when will it be worth while to live?” In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.
~Ouida

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Next Exercise Prompt: choice

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Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
~Zig Ziglar

It doesn’t matter whether your thoughts and feelings are good or bad, you are giving them out, and they will return to you as automatically and precisely as an echo returns the same words you send out.
~Rhonda Byrne

Your current conditions are echoes of your past choices.
~Robin Sharma

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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
~Yannick Noah (tennis/singer)

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.
~Lucy Maud Montgomery

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
~Giotto di Bondone

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“I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us,” Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, “and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star.” That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
~Frank Drake (astronomer)

All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest ‒ if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself ‒ you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say ‘Here at last is the thing I was made for.’
~C S Lewis

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought ‒ only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.
~Logan Pearsall Smith

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The more I think about myself, the more I’m persuaded that, as a person, I really don’t exist. That is one of the reasons why I can’t believe in any orthodox religion: I cannot believe in my own soul. No, I am a chemical compound, conditioned by environment and education. My “character” is simply a repertoire of acquired tricks, my conversation a repertoire of adaptations and echoes, my “feelings” are dictated by purely physical, external stimuli.
~Christopher Isherwood

No, the secret is that there’s no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.
~Sándor Márai

He who is different from me does not impoverish me ‒ he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves ‒ in Man… For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs ‒
To the silent wilderness
Where the soul need not repress
Its music lest it should not find
An echo in another’s mind.
~John Updike

We are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood–echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil (these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams, like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard).
~Mary Webb

It is hard going to the door
cut so small in the wall where
the vision which echoes loneliness
brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.
~Robert Creeley

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A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.
~James A Baldwin

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
~Mohsin Hamid

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We are earth’s children, and life is the same in sap as in blood; all that the earth, our mother, feels and expresses to the eye by her form and aspect, in melancholy or in splendor, finds an echo within us.
~Alphonse de Lamartine

Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
~Novalis

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I really like Adam Curtis’ ‘Century of Self.’ It’s about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like being in an echo chamber. I was definitely more like that in my early twenties ‒ my music was completely inaccessible.
~Weyes Blood

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.
~Ludovico Einaudi

I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can’t actually physically interact with, but are somehow intuitively there. Maybe you can see the ashes of that fire or the echoes of something happening on a domain not-here, whether that be coincidence, whether that be familiarity with somebody who’s a stranger.
~Mike Cahill

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He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions‒such a man is . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being‒an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.
~Henri Frederic Amiel

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.
~Elias Canetti

Be a voice not an echo.
~Albert Einstein

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“There’s not much left inside me, Max” Sometimes, all she heard were echoes.
~Nalini Singh

I am smiling at myself today
There’s no wish left in this heart
Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one
Except me.
~Rumi

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
~Dejan Stojanovic

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It is my province to teach to the church what the doctrine is. It is your province to echo what I say or to remain silent.
~Bruce R McConkie

Froi heard Zabat’s voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot’s voice.
~Melina Marchetta

To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.
~Gordon Clark

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All this is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because it helps people establish what they value; they understand the sort of ideas they identify with. The curse is that they aren’t challenged in their views. The Internet becomes an echo chamber. Users don’t see the counterarguments.
~Edward Snowden

One is to get out of our echo chambers and sort of follow up people on Twitter and Facebook who do not agree with you. Make sure that you have friends disagree with you profoundly…
~Tucker Carlson

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
~Thomas Carlyle

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What we do now echoes in eternity.
~Marcus Aurelius

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
~C S LEWIS

No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.
~Geoffrey Wood

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Posted From The Grove

Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.
~Neil Gaiman

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When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven’t learned from the past. We still don’t see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.
~Immortal Technique

Signal smokes, war drums, feathered bonnets against the western sky. New messiahs, young leaders are ready to hurl the finest light cavalry in the world against Fort Stark. In the Kiowa village, the beat of drums echoes in the pulsebeat of the young braves. Fighters under a common banner, old quarrels forgotten, Comanche rides with Arapaho, Apache with Cheyenne. All chant of war. War to drive the white man forever from the red man’s hunting ground.
~Frank Nugent

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It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed — not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills.
~Stephen King

The wars don’t end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I’m gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.
~Tim O’Brien

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
~Otto von Bismarck

The trauma of 9/11 stimulated infinite possibilities for worry ‒ some quite plausible, but most inspired by remote what-if fantasies. A society bingeing on fear makes itself vulnerable to far more profound forms of destruction than terror attacks. The “terrorism war”, like a nostalgic echo of the cold war, is using these popular fears to advance a different agenda ‒ the re-engineering of American life through permanent mobilization.
~William Greider

Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,
The numbers of the feared.
~William Shakespeare

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The many pro-surveillance advocates I have debated since Snowden blew the whistle have been quick to echo [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt’s view that privacy is for people who have something to hide. But none of them would willingly give me the passwords to their email accounts, or allow video cameras in their homes.
~Glenn Greenwald

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People nowadays talk about issues as if they’re reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they’re the experts of everything.
~Suzy Kassem

Nowadays public opinion is not the sum of private opinions. On the contrary, private opinions are an echo of public opinion
~Nicolas Gomez Davila

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
~William Hazlitt

Men, unlike mockingbirds, have the capacity for systematic self-delusion. We echo each other with equal precision, equal eloquence, equal assurance.
~Robert Ardrey

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
~Bill Delahunt

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Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.
~Herbert Spencer

We are still explorers and discoverers, seeking meaning through movement and examination. But we are coming to a time of listening. Our sweat and breath are now upon this land. Voices rise up, and we begin to hear the echoes in the stones.
~Kent Nerburn

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sharply criticized negotiations with Iran, calling them a ‘historic’ mistake that contributes to making the world a ‘more dangerous place.’ This sentiment is strongly supported by his allies in Washington.
~Stephen Kinzer

“Peace. That’s what salaam means. Peace unto you.” The words brought forth an echo from Ender’s memory. His mother’s voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. … The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can’t tear him out.
~Orson Scott Card

I came to the place of my birth and cried: “The friends of my youth, where are they?”–and an echo answered, “Where are they?
~Samuel Rogers

MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.
~Richard Holbrooke

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Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.
~R W Apple

I want to re-echo my hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
~Woodrow Wilson

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Yes there’s a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe.
And there’s a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
~Aaron Tippin

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No history much? Perhaps.
Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
~Lawrence Durrell

The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn’t believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, ‘We want peace. We want peace.’
~Jarreth J Merz

For all the good things it has brought our society, the Web has also fostered ideological hermits, who only talk to folks who believe exactly what they do. This creates an echo chamber that only further convinces people that they are right, and everyone else is not only wrong, but an idiot or worse. So when an incident like this one arises, it’s not enough to point out an error; they must prove that the error had nefarious origins. In some places on the Web, everything happens on a grassy knoll.
~James Brady

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Leftists’ meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
~Dennis Prager

The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What I object to on the right is the obsessive hatred, the bigotry, and the personal savaging of their opponents, all achieved through an echo chamber of talk radio, the Internet and… media outlets. That kind of well-funded disinformation campaign has no analog on the left.
~David Brock

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The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.
~Louis Simpson

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words “justice,” “compassion,” “society,” “struggle,” “evil,” would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
~P D James

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By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.
~James Joyce

A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.
~Faith Salie

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After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
~Stephen King

When Manuel Valls says there’s nothing to understand because “understanding is justifying,” he echoes back…
~Tariq Ramadan

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
~Dajan Stojanovic

I will offer a choice, not an echo.
~Barry Goldwater

To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.
~Tomi Lahren

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If power was a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.
~Salman Rushdie

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
~Daniel J Boorstin

Facebook is primarily a mechanism for bonding, not bridging. Studies show that in the vast majority of cases, people live in self-made echo chambers on Facebook that reinforce their existing views of the world.
~Asha Rangappa

Instagram influencers project a specific, highly crafted image of perfection ‒ one that is largely white, thin, and psychologically Zen. Critics argue that this boom, in turn, has helped fuel excessive self-promotion in which we post about only the good moments rather than reality ‒ essentially, a distorted echo chamber.
~Mary Pilon

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they’re reflecting too … Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.
~Ayn Rand

In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked.
~Richard Salter Storrs

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Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
They remember it again ‒
Echo still the joyful sound
“Peace on earth, good-will to men!”
~Lewis Carroll

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~Luis Martinez: Echo (1:52) a duo’s dance

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~TED-Ed: The myth of Narcissus and Echo Iseult Gillespie (4:56) animated, the intertwined story, with elegance, crisply told

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~Raconteur – Mythology & History: The Thin Line Between Love and Obsession – Echo and Narcissus (8:00) a more detailed telling

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~Pseudostage: The Silent Echo • To Mountain (2:22) Nepalese child sings to the wind

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Money is an echo of value.
~Bob Burg

Money talks — but credit has an echo.
~Bob Thaves

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If you write about a process you’re about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn’t echo what you’ve written about, you’ve failed.
~James L Brooks

Content isn’t just a brand or message that you develop yourself and then throw out into the echo chamber. It’s a mirror.
~Eugene Lee Yang

Don’t be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you’re just a reflection.
~Hugh Nibley

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Stars are echoes of the past. It’s important to look to them for guidance, but as long as people reach for them, they never realize the beauty and potential awaiting just in front of them.
~Emory R Frie

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
~Og Mandino

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
~Victor Hugo

I’m trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there’s an echo to a much larger reality.
~Robert Lepage

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.
~Margaret Atwood

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What is Freedom? ye can tell
That which slavery is, too well
For its very name has grown
To an echo of your own.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

I was born in the late ’70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where racism was a casual part of white people’s public and private lives, though it had been pushed more into its own little echo chamber by then. As a five year old, I saw a fully costumed Klan circle, complete with burning cross, on a town square in rural Alabama at high noon.
~Nate Powell

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.
~William J Brennan

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
~Winston Churchill

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.
~Eric Hoffer

To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles “in advance” a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port-Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.
~Michel Foucault

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No history much? Perhaps.
Only this ominous
Dark beauty flowering under veils,
Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style:
A village like an instinct left to rust,
Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
~Lawrence Durrell

At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet created a force capable of triumphing over the Graeco-Roman world; an obscure monk like Luther bathed Europe in blood. The voice of a Galileo or a Newton will never have the least echo among the masses. The inventors of genius hasten the march of civilization. The fanatics and the hallucinated create history.
~Gustave Le Bon

History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
~Charles Angoff

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
~Lois McMaster Bujold

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.
~Henry Anatole Grunwald

Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
~Renata Adler (the New Yorker/Pauline Kael fued)

Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way ‒ in an echo of some of Shakespeare’s plays ‒ the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
~Mal Peet

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.
~Jhumpa Lahiri

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When the media goes state and becomes nothing more than an echo chamber for the government, the task of sharing truth falls to the original keepers of liberty: the American people.
~Dana Loesch

I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.
~Ben Hecht (screen/playwright, journalist)

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§ VIDEO:

Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be filled. It’s this capacity for emptiness and not just fullness that offers possibilities yet to be explored. Kurosawa has magnificently exploited this dimension in Dreams: sometimes the sonic universe is reduced to a single point‒the sound of the rain, an echo that disappears, a simple voice.
~Michel Chion

The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent’s Google search run amok.
~Richard Corliss

Basic Instinct 2‘ is an uneasy experience because, although it is hyper-reflexive to the point where it is hard to think of one character, one scene, one plot twist that isn’t a reference or an echo, there is nothing knowing about it. No matter how absurd the film gets, it refuses to raise its eyebrows.
~Mark Fisher

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The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they’re shot is very simple and the same.
~Jim Jarmusch

As an independent filmmaker, the biggest challenge is finding the money. Whenever you have interest in a film project you need to find investors who are real. I think most independent filmmakers would echo that sentiment.
~Harrison Smith

At school, I’d sing in groups in the locker room or in the bathroom, which was like an echo chamber. The problem is I didn’t know how to get started singing professionally. The pool hall was my Facebook. I’d hang out there to keep up with what was going on and to let people know where I could be reached if singing jobs came up.
~Frankie Valli

On reflection, some things do super well because they hit with the time. Some things do super well because they are able to activate a kind of echo chamber or bandwagon or cascade ‒ they didn’t particularly hit with the time. Some things are just too astonishingly good to not hit the top. Those three explanations, with respect to the Star Wars phenomenon, seem to me all to pass the plausibility test…
~Cass Sunstein

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
~Jill Clayburgh

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.
~Walter J Phillips

Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.
~Robert Henri

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.
~Daniel Levitin

When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
~Walter Darby Bannard

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness… It’s so bloody hard to paint.
~Leland Bell

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An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That’s why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It’s as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.
~Adam Fuss

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It’s a trace.
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.
~Vera Wang

As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior ‒ a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess.
~Suzy Menkes

Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
~Suzy Menkes

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Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
~Anna Brownell Jameson

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
~Thomas Fuller

Friendship Never explain — your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
~Eric Hoffer

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy–that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
~Mark Twain

I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
~Michel Foucault

(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
~Julio Cortazar

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
~Julia McNair Wright

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Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.
~George Santayana

So in the heart,
When, fading slowly down the past,
Fond memories depart,
And each that leaves it seems the last;
Long after all the rest are flown,
Returns a solitary tone,
The after-echo of departed years,
And touches all the soul to tears.
~Henry Van Dyke

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~Echo Torch: (20:21) a light revealing more than a light should

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~The CGBros: Victor Perez • Echo (10:16) the treachery of mirror

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~The CGBros: The Echo Team • Echo (5:13) from a French legend

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~Omeleto: Cheap Hugs (15:10) grief, and the echoes of memory… be prepared for tears

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Surfing is sensual. It’s a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It’s an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.
~Tim Winton

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I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.
~Henri Barbusse

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.
~Charles Dickens

And I saw it didn’t matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the slick beauty of the Iranian attendant, the thickening clouds–nothing was mine. And I understood finally, after a semester of philosophy, a thousand books of poetry, after death and childbirth and the startled cries of men who called out my name as they entered me, I finally believed I was alone, felt it in my actual, visceral heart, heard it echo like a thin bell.
~Dorianne Laux

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The echo is a gift, passed on to us by our ancestors many ages ago, to remind us of ourselves. To confirm our existence. To remedy our loneliness. Though we must be still in order to hear it.
~Thomas Lloyd Qualls

Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.
~Paul Valery

Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.
~Ingmar Bergman

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
~Adam Duritz

When you hear the echoes of my mind, you’ll know that I wasn’t listening to what you said.
~Anthony T Hincks

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Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.
~Jane Goodall

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles
~Chinese Proverb

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
~Mother Teresa

As the call, so the echo.
~Proverb

There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
~Beryl Markham

Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking’s a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That’s a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.
~Denise Levertov

It seems to be the special peculiarity of human beings that they reflect: they think about thinking and know that they know. This, like other feedback systems, may lead to vicious circles and confusions if improperly managed, but self-awareness makes human experience resonant. It imparts that simultaneous “echo” to all that we think and feel as the box of a violin reverberates with the sound of the strings. It gives depth and volume to what would otherwise be shallow and flat.
~Alan Watts

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
~C S Lewis

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Here the sun shineth
Most shadily;
Here is heard an echo
Of the far sea,
Though far off it be.
~Christina Rossetti

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§ MUSIC:

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature…Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
~Kate Mosse

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.
~Max Heindel

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

Music speaks directly to the heart. This response, this echo within the heart, is proof that human hearts can transcend the barriers of time and space and nationality. Exchanges in the field of culture can play an important role in enabling people to overcome mistrust and prejudice and build peace.
~Daisaku Ikeda

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir–I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.
~George Eliot

The songs in ‘Wonderland‘ don’t have a melodic life for me ‒ I’m not a musical person ‒ but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.
~Stacey D’Erasmo

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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
~Barbra Streisand

Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We’d also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we’d stand in the little heated lobby in the project’s administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.
~Frankie Valli

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My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.
~Eric Clapton

Weirdly enough, if I’m having trouble with a guitar part ‒ not the playing of it but the writing ‒ I’ll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I’ve found so many guitar parts from echo. It’s limitless.
~The Edge

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes!
~Alan Parsons

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
~A Kool Moe Dee

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Eccojams are a very simple exercise where I just take music I like, and I loop up a segment, slow it down, and put a bunch of echo on it ‒ just to placate my desire to hear things I like without things I don’t.
~Oneohtrix Point

Actually, all we’re trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
~Chico Hamilton

Any sound. Record it and then change it’s nature by a multiplicity of operations. You record it at different speeds; you play it backwards; you add it to itself over and over again. You adjust filters, echoes, acoustic qualities…you produce a vast and subtle symphony. It’s a sort of modern magic. We think there’s something in it. Some musicians believe it may become an art form in its own right.
~Daphne Oram

Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It’s inspired so many people and so much music ‒ in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there’s a little bit of a romantic thing there.
~Mike D

Dub music is like a long echo delay, looping through time…turning the rational musical order into an ocean of sensation.
~David Toop

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I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.
~Florian Schneider

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the river, and fell from note to note as a brook from rock to rock. I did not hear the strains after they had issued from the flute, but before they were breathed into it, for the oiginal strain precedes the sound by as much as the echo follows after…
~Henry David Thoreau

To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
~Bobby Vinton

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On one level, we’re on Matador, but our amps still might explode on stage, or they’ll be an echo in the mic. It’s like climbing a ladder. I like to climb it really slowly. I could probably get really professional right away, but I like to take baby steps and find my own way.
~Kurt Vile (The Violators)

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When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound ‒ Joy Division’s ‘Closer,’ or Echo and the Bunnymen’s ‘Heaven Up Here‘… I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.
~Moby

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.
~Taylor Swift

Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,
Play all the comfort o’er again.
~Joseph Addison

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start,
when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
~Eliza Cook

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I opened the doors of my heart.
And behold,
There was music within and a song,
And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long.
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold,
There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes:
Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled.
~Jean Ingelow

This is the first thing I have understood:
Time is the echo of an axe within a wood.
~Philip Larkin

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition of what was worth repeating in the bell, but partly the voice of the wood…
~Henry David Thoreau

There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.
~Charles de Lint

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If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
~Brian Eno

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
~Thomas Carlyle

Echo & the Bunnymen just copied ‘People Are Strange,’ which is cool, we made some money, thanks. But when an artist finds a new interpretation of one of your songs, that’s great. It turns your head around.
~John Densmore

When I hear people who love my music and are trying to copy it, it sounds strange to me because it sounds so simple, made by other people. It took me a lot of years to find the balance, to find a way to be on the edge of being accessible but at the same time having the echo of a deep, more complex world.
~Ludovico Einaudi

Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body’s breath, and the strings’ wails and moans are echoes of the body’s music. It is the body’s vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.
~Anais Nin

What you have to understand is that blues… it’s in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you’re playing it like it’s an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
~Taj Mahal

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing ‘ancient tones’ into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into American blues, gospel, folk hymnody, and hill country dance music. To that gumbo, he added the invigorating rhythms and harmonies of hot jazz. It was a new kind of American music, named in honor of his band The Blue Grass Boys to be known, simply, as bluegrass.
~Paul Zollo

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From it’s inception Beat poetry was hailed as “something NEW” and “like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected ‒ by hip people who listen.” But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach.
~Allen Ginsberg

Mozart’s music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.
~E T A Hoffmann

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In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I’d sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too ‒ singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
~Ben E King

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.
~James Mercer

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I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.
~Anna Journey

Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Iluvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Iluvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void.
~J R R Tolkien

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I can’t see my reflection in the waters,
I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain.
I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps,
or can’t remember the sound of my own name.
~Bob Dylan (Tomorrow Is A Long Time)

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise
~Friedrich Nietzsche

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~Cristina G Zarzosa: Echo (2:43) song born of being ignored

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~Helsinki Films: Nelou Echo (3:46) family, friends, memories resolving

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~enyatv: Enya Echoes In Rain (2:58) ethereal Enya

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~Seimo Records: Into Echo • Remember Me (3:38) heavy lyrics, jittery graphics

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~Linkin Park: Lost In The Echo (3:49) with a ghostly premise

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~Jackson Dean: Fearless / The Echo (3:41) fearless, but for one thing

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~Echo & The Bunnymen: The Killing Moon (4:54) a song from back when

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~Natalia Echo: I Lost Myself (3:24) audio/lyrics, confessional

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~Chelsea Wolfe: Whispers In The Echo Chamber (4:16) weird, in a word

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~Elevation Worship: Tauren Wells • Echo (3:48) religious, infectious

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~Cole Rolland: Echo (3:24) rock ‘n roll in a sand storm

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~Olivia Dean: Echo (3:19) understated, nicely orchestrated

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What do you think love is ‒ a thing to startle from the heart like a bird at every shout or blow? You can fly from me, high as you choose into your darkness, but you will see me always beneath you, no matter how far away, with my face turned to you. My heart is in your heart. I gave it to you with my name that night and you are its guardian, to treasure it, or let it whither and die. I do not understand you. I am angry with you. I am hurt and helpless, but nothing will fill the ache of the hollowness in me where your name would echo if I lost you.
~Patricia A McKillip

There’s a hollow where he used to be, and it echoes with self-imposed loss.
~Ann Aguirre

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“You don’t have to echo my feelings, Mencheres, but you can’t talk me out of them either. I love you.” Her smile was wry. “Deal with it.”
~Jeaniene Frost

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
~Adelaide Anne Procter (Victorian poet)

And we’d sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless october, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dog and the echo of louis’ voice dying away
~William Faulkner

The old echoes are long in dying.
~Charles Henry Parkhurst

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I think she is going to find you too old… Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it was true, and the revelation caused me no surprise, it was like the echo of a dull, not unexpected shock. The age difference was the last taboo, the final limit, all the stronger for the fact that it remained the last and had replaced all the others. In the modern world you could be a swinger, bi, trans, zoo into S&M, but it was forbidden to be old.
~Michel Houellebecq

I count no more my wasted tears;
They left no echo of their fall;
I mourn no more my lonesome years;
This blessed hour atones for all.
I fear not all that Time or Fate
May bring to burden heart or brow,-
Strong in the love that came so late,
Our souls shall keep it always now!
~Elizabeth Chase Allen

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‘And my desire,’ he said, ‘is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.’
~Lady Gregory (Irish dramatist)

I think the hardest person to love is yourself
I mean-
You carry your flaws like burdens
And you feel them on your skin
The words you shouldn’t have said
Still echo in your head
So you keep quiet
Your mistakes, like monsters
They haunt you
And you put them to sleep every night
The words you should’ve said
Still echo in your head
I bet you’d give yourself a chance
If you were someone else instead
~Yara

I am smiling at myself today
There’s no wish left in this heart
Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one Except me.
~Rumi

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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty’
~Andrea Gibson

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.
~Plato

When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.
~Rumi

She marking them begins a wailing note
And sings extemporally a woeful ditty
How love makes young men thrall and old men dote
How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty
Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe,
And still the choir of echoes answer so.
~William Shakespeare

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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.
~Felix Adler

A thinking partner who isn’t an echo chamber… How many of us dare to have such collaborators?
~Margaret Heffernan

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.
~Jacob Bronowski

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Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
~Rowan Williams

Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,
The voice divine of human loyalty.
~George Eliot

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…the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.
~Maggie Stiefvater

The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is ‒ maybe this should come first ‒ to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.
~Michael Franti

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When I write this in bed, I can almost hear the echo of the wind over the sand, or the groans of wooden panels around me. I can almost smell the dustiness of the camel, taste the bitterness of saltbush. And when I dream, your warm hands cover my shoulders. Your whispers carry stories and sound like the rustle of spinifex. I still wear that ring, you know… at night, when no one is watching.
~Lucy Christopher

In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
~Isaac Marion

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“I’ll just be your brother from now on.” he said, looking at her with a hopeful expectation that she would be pleased, which made her want to scream that he was smashing her heart into pieces and he had to stop. “That’s what you wanted, isn’t it?” It took her a long time to answer, and when she did, her own voice sounded like an echo, coming from very far away. “Yes,” she said, and she heard the rush of waves in her ears and her eyes stung as if from sand or salt spray. “That’s what I wanted.”
~Cassandra Clare

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Footfalls echo in the memory,
down the passage we did not take,
towards the door we never opened,
into the rose garden.
~T S Eliot

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I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago ‒ but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man’s child. She could fade and wither ‒ I didn’t care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.
~Vladimir Nabokov

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.
~Milan Kundera

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That’s how I hold your voice.
~Rumi

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Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.
~John Frederick Boyes

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No, no, don’t let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.
~Rachilde (decadent literature movement)

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
~George MacDonald

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I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance’s first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other… you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.
~Charles de Lint

Perhaps the echoes of people we once loved still linger in the places we frequented with them and that is why we go back… Not so much to remember them as to feel them…
~Ranata Suzuki

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
~Mark Z Danielewski

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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.
~William Shakespeare

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

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There is no love that is not an echo.
~Theodor W Adorno

Only echoes answer me.
~Anton Chekhov

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When the truths of love are planted firm,
they won’t be hard to find.
And words of love I speak to you
will echo in your mind.
~Stevie Wonder (I Believe…)

Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth.
~Tom Robbins

My mum had this idea I was going to be this long-haired hippie playing guitar and bought me one when I was 13, but my little brother picked it up instead and was such a natural, he kept it! Io Echo is a band my brother now plays in; they’re really good.
~Liberty Ross

Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
~Peter Ackroyd

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When you hold a child to your breast to nurse, the curve of the little head echoes exactly the curve of the breast it suckles, as though this new person truly mirrors the flesh from which it sprang.
~Diana Gabaldon

I think I’ve indulged in a pathological, chronic nostalgia over the years, which I’ve traced back to my childhood. I was the last of four children, born well after the other three, so I was left on my own in a big, quiet house where most of the people had left, and even the echoes of a happy family had all died out.
~Guy Maddin

I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.
~Lysa TerKeurst

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The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which‒at their best‒we have sublime expressions of heavenly love and care for one another. We sense the importance of these relationships when we realize that our greatest expressions of joy or pain in mortality come from the members of our families
~Dallin H Oaks

Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children. But once the children grow older, sisters draw closer together and often, in old age, they become each other’s chosen and most happy companions. In addition to their shared memories of childhood and of their relationship to each other’s children, they share memories of the same home, the same homemaking style, and the same small prejudices about housekeeping that carry the echoes of their mother’s voice.
~Margaret Mead

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.
~Neal A Maxwell

As a boy,I was extremely shy, certainly as a result of my upbringing. I was an expert blusher, and some of my harsh actions may echo this shyness by way of compensation.
~Gunter Brus (provocative artist, Belgian)

Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
~Danilo Kis

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Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually, critical words are accompanied by threats, name-calling, and yelling. This verbal abuse can be especially damaging. Insulting names echo in a child’s mind over and over again until he comes to believe he is indeed stupid, selfish, lazy, or ugly and that in fact, that is all he is.
~Beverly Engel

Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother’s rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn’t rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.
~Antonella Gambotto-Burke

The echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
~C J Sansom

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.
~Michael Ondaatje

But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up.
~James A Owen

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Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs.
~Marlena De Blasi

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.
~Kent Nerburn

It’s disturbing at my age to look at a young woman’s destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one’s own destructiveness in youth.
~Helen Garner

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that’s what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.
~Stephen Marche

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.
~Francis Alexander Durivage

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Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.
~H P Lovecraft

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
~Henri Bergson

The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don’t enjoy the echo. I’m no sell out. Literally.
~Andy Kindler

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.
~Fred Allen

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I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won’t give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
~William Congreve

I asked of Echo ‘t other day
(Whose words are few and often funny),
What to a novice she could say
Of courtship, love, and matrimony.
Quoth Echo, plainly, “Matter-o’-money.
~John Godfrey Saxe

It’s important to be conscious of the world we live in. We get one chance, as far as I’m concerned, but we all leave an echo. It’s important that our echo resonates positively on the planet and its inhabitants after we’re gone.
~Alex Gaskarth

The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we’re gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.
~Alice McDermott

Till the Future dares
Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be
An echo and a light unto eternity!
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

The melancholy ghosts of dead renown,
Whispering faint echoes of the world’s applause.
~Edward Young

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I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death;
the echo I created outlasted my last breath.
~Fiona Apple (Container)

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Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
~Virginia Woolf

You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.
~Richard Selzer

The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.
~Diana Gabaldon

The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.
~Morgan Llywelyn

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The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
~Kate Mosse

Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud‒and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is nothing to hold on to, no sides, no way to claw myself up. There is nothing to do but let go. Let go. Feel the weight all around you, feel the squeezing of your lungs, the slow, low pressure. Let yourself go deeper. There is nothing but bottom. There is nothing but the taste of metal, and the echoes of old things, and days that look like darkness.
~Lauren Oliver

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.
~Hisham Matar

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What I know about living is the pain is never just ours
Every time I hurt I know the wound is an echo
So I keep a listening to the moment the grief becomes a window
When I can see what I couldn’t see before,
through the glass of my most battered dream,
I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind and when it did,
it scattered a thousand seeds.
So the next time I tell you how easily I come out of my skin, don’t try to put me back in
just say here we are together at the window aching for it to all get better
~Andrea Gibson

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Sheet Metal Echoes

© David Lorenz Winston

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A work of art is an echo chamber which repeats what people say about it.
~Mason Cooley

Art is a delayed echo.
~George Santayana

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh;
a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
~Sean O’Casey

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
~Norman Douglas

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
~Edward G Bulwer-Lytton

Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.
~Czeslaw Milosz

echo, the death of a sound that had nowhere to go but to come back.
~Janet Fitch

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
~Ambrose Bierce

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
~Emil Cioran

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
~Giuseppe Mazzini

“That fiend!” Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana’s bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter [Pan] names.
~James M Barrie

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My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.
~Tyga

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When we play music we describe the echo the tableau of natural forms, their shapes and arrangements, as uncovered by the composer’s imagination, which yet must be filtered through our own. There is no other way. And in acknowledging this tableau, this revelation, we must “hesitate”, we must doubt, as the composer doubted, for no valid creation can issue unscarred by doubt, by that vast flux of wonder which precedes the construction of being.
~Russell Sherman

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There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization ‒ “dustsceawung,” meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or “wyrd.”
~Peter Ackroyd

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Everybody’s talkin’ about me, I don’t hear a word they’re saying, only echoes on my mind.
~Harry Nilsson (Everybody’s Talkin‘)

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All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It’s just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls stones, echoes of unknown voices ‒ a collective mishmash of life.
~Fernando Pessoa

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The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.
~Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
~Henry David Thoreau

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If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy
~Milan Kundera

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The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.
~George Orwell

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Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
~Karl Barth

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No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
~William George Jordan

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A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.
~Larry Crabb

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I love people that work with passion and love. When you make choices that way, there’s reverberations, consequences. That’s what I’m interested in, that echo, that ripple of choice.
~Derek Cianfrance

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Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.
~Gutzon Borglum

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Echo of your thoughts has greater impact on the world than your actions.
~Amit Ray

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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
~Aimee Bender (author)

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From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace,
it’s the voice of every man
~Bette Midler (From A Distance)

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If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
~Bruce Lee

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We are the echo of the future.
~W S Merwin

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Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word ‘pravda’? …Doesn’t that just echo down the canyons of your soul?
~Julian Barnes (pravda: truth/justice)

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I do sometimes feel like I function within an echo chamber and I’m just kind of preaching to the choir.
~Weyes Blood

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In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there’s a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.
~Alan Moore

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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
~Jacques Derrida (Fr philosopher)

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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: “Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?” And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
~Jack Kerouac

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If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world’s essential, joyful muddle.
~Alberto Manguel

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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time –affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
~Dean Koontz

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.
~Julian Jaynes

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. “I conclude that all is well,” says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
~Albert Camus

I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.
~Albert Camus

I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with its hard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it–the Bovary syndrome.
~Angela Carter

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask.
~Wallis Simpson (royal consort)

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You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles when a carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. In a man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence‒ the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.
~Robert Hughes

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One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer’s physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.
~Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm’s length.
~George Santayana

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@Writers Platform:

Writing comes into being to retain information across time and across space. Before writing, communication is evanescent and local; sounds carry a few yards and fade to oblivion. The evanescence of the spoken word went without saying. So fleeting was speech that the rare phenomenon of the echo, a sound heard once and then again, seemed a sort of magic.
~James Gleick

The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.
~Albert Pike

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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.
~Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931)

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking… I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
~Maurice Blanchot (1907 – 2003)

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A word into the silence thrown
always finds its echo somewhere
where silence opens hidden lexicons.
~Dejan Stojanovic

Sitting over words
Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing
Not far
Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark
The echo of everything that has ever
Been spoken
Still spinning its one syllable
Between the earth and silence.
~W S Merwin

Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . . And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And more than echoes talk along the walls.
~Alexander Pope

Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations — naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today — that they are stored with other meanings, with other memories, and they have contracted so many famous marriages in the past.
~Virginia Woolf

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.
~Knut Hamsun

Translation is at best an echo.
~George Borrow

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Hemingway’s minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn’t realize they were supposed to have imagined.
~Madison Smartt Bell

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of ‘Once upon a time’ shapes all the fiction I’ve ever written.
~Justine Larbalestier

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Later in the evening when you lie awake in bed with the echoes from the amplifiers ringing in your head.
~Bob Seger

That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Don’t try to write anything you can’t feel ‒ it will be a failure ‒’echoes nothing worth’
~Lucy Maud Montgomery

It’s too easy to unconsciously echo another novelist’s voice while reading fiction, a habit of mimicry I probably picked up as a musician.
~Greg Iles

Music’s always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can’t create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music’s mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I’m writing, but it’s also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.
~Charles de Lint

Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what’s been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul [protective membrane], in fact, around the reader.
~Teju Cole

Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don’t know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like “no/know” and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I’d like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn’t that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I’d have said: not me, never. And now I done it.
~Gregory Orr

There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming couplets, with echoes of Pope and the tradition of eighteenth-century philosophical verse.
~Mark Ravenhill

The cry that ‘fantasy is escapist’ compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are ‘escapist’ compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
~Tom Shippey

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Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don’t they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Daily Echo, and a hell of a lot of writers have come out of Shortridge on that account.
~Dan Wakefield

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.
~Kurt Vonnegut

Writing was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
~Kurt Vonnegut

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One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, ‘Getting Closer,’ is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,’ a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.
~Steven Millhauser

On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of some obscure storyteller, and once you have read it, you will never go completely back to where you were before. The kind of book you may hesitate to lend for fear you might miss its company. The kind of book that echoes from the heart of some ancient knowing, and whispers from time’s forgotten cave that life may be more than it seems, and less.
~A Curtiss

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that… the reader is left with an echo of: ‘How much of this was from me?’
~Mohsin Hamid

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
~Henry David Thoreau

Once, in my father’s bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
~Don Marquis (1935 – 2022)

You can publish a book of poetry by dropping it off a cliff and waiting to hear an echo. Quite often, you’ll never hear a thing. So doing that, using older work, puts it in a context, and that sort of forces the reader to realize what its importance is‒if it has any. Everything needs a context. You’re not going to recognize a poet unless you have a context.
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919 -2021)

I used to write as an escape. There’s no escape. There’s just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.
~Laird Barron

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With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.
~Alice Meynell

The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will… and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is how I understand literature ‒ as a kind of remix or echo chamber. What’s going on in a literary work are other literary things disinterred, cannibalized, and recombined.
~Tommy McCarthy

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Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
~Louise Glück

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
~Wallace Stevens

The poetic image is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.
~Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.
~Carl Sandburg

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If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
~Brad Leithauser

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once more only the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,–those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Prewritten Prompt: echo

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Everything seems an echo of something else.
~Robert Penn Warren

So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes, plowing through mixed metaphors, noise, and will try to show the core, which is still there, as a core, and is valid, despite the fog. The core is the core is the core. There is always the core, that can’t be articulated. Only caricatured.
~Dave Eggers

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Imagine, he said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All around you these people fall into prostrate positions, some of them weeping. Where are you? Sara’s answer was immediate: in an asylum. Perhaps, Kreizler answered, but you could also be in a church. In the one place the behavior would be considered mad; in the other, not only sane, but as respectable as any human activity can be.
~Caleb Carr

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel’s ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.
~Kenny Smith

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Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
~John Piper

But what does it mean to be on God’s side? …It echoes a very basic tenet of Christianity and other faiths ‒ love your neighbor as yourself ‒ still the most transformational ethic in history.
~Jim Wallis

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Joy is the echo of God’s life within us.
~Columba Marmion

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud.
We in ourselves rejoice!
And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,
all melodies the echoes of that voice,
all colours a suffusion from that light.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.
~Henry David Thoreau

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
~Asa Gray

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Most Christian ‘believers’ tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
~Richard Rohr

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.
~John Piper

Perhaps an all-powerful, self-sufficient, and original God, is less in need of our bowing, scraping, self-abasing worship, than he is interested in our performance as an actor, on his stage, under his direction. We have the script. The instructions has been given us. All we need do is echo his direction in our actions.
~author unknown

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I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides,
~Saint Augustine

If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God’s, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
~John Stott

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In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.
~Richard Wurmbrand

Like an echo from a ruined castle, prayer is an echo from the ruined human soul of the sweet promise of God.
~William Arnot

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That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good ‒ the atavism of an old ideal.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

True religion should be able to respond to the dark melodies, the faulty and hideous sounds that echo from the heart of men.
~Shusaku Endo

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From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.
~Swami Vivekananda

Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming ‒ the echo of God on the human wall!
~Victor Hugo

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[St. Francis] looked upon creation with the eyes of one who could recognize in it the marvelous work of the hand of God. His solicitous care, not only towards men, but also towards animals is a faithful echo of the love with which God in the beginning pronounced his ‘fiat’ which brought them into existence. We too are called to a similar attitude.
~Pope John Paul II

I am not engaged to Christianity by decent forms, or saving ordinances; it is not usage, it is not what I do not understand, that binds me to it — let these be the sandy foundations of falsehoods. What I revere and obey in it is its reality, its boundless charity, its deep interior life, the rest it gives to my mind, the echo it returns to my thoughts, the perfect accord it makes with my reason through all its representation of God and His Providence; and the persuasion and courage that come out thence to lead me upward and onward.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes ‒ many times ‒ my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens ‒ and it happens every day in some measure ‒ I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.
~John Piper

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We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him… the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
~John Piper

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Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
~Robert Green Ingersoll

We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.
~Max Nordau

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us.
~Guillermo del Toro

Getting kicked out of the Garden was the beginning of school. The knowledge of good and evil needed to be lived to be learned. The scope of mankind portrayed in the Bible is but an echo of the globe and the music we have made.
~author unknown

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee;
we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
~Rumi

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Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.
~Miroslav Volf

I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the cathode-ray tube, and then grew slowly into a big deflection as the aircraft came nearer. This strange new power to “see” things at great distances, through clouds or darkness, was a magical extension of our senses. It gave me the same thrill that I felt in the early days of radio when I first heard a voice coming out of a horn.
~Robert Hanbury Brown (1916 – 2002)

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
~Gene Wolfe

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Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.
~Roger Lewin

In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the ‘science is settled’ camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.
~Colin Robinson

Technology has allowed the creation of media echo chambers, so that a person can reinforce, rather than debate, viewpoints.
~Richard Edelman

The difference between an echo chamber and a filter bubble in my mind is an echo chamber you choose to in with likeminded people, a filter bubble chooses you and you don’t really see it.
~Edward Greenspon

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The subliminal depths of radio are charged with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums. This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo chamber.
~Marshall McLuhan

The Internet creates more space for extremism, and the echo chamber effect accelerates the process.
~Brian Stelter

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to calm down enough to listen.
~Naomi Wolf

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Videogames are indeed design: They’re sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
~John Maeda

If you have an architecture of control, let’s say, where you select in advance everything that’s going to affect your life, then you’re going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature… Pandora [music platform], which I love, actually feeds into that.
~Cass Sunstein

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.
~Ray Bradbury

Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.
~Richelle E Goodrich

There is a place where time stands still …illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
~Alan Lightman

If you live to be 100 years old, what you’ve done here for the last two days, weeks, months, what you’ve done here will echo in eternity.
~Jay Paterno (son of coach, Joe)

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Gone! gone forever!‒like a rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being‒and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents in the air,
Are dying to an echo.
~George D Prentice

Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.
~Alexander Smith

Nothing bubbled up from the depths. For once, the present was so alive and captivating that the past was not even an echo or a shadow‒she was, in this moment, wiped clean.
~J R Ward

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The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.
~Roland Merullo

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.
~Guy Finley

Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
~Guy Finley

The great eventful Present hides the Past;
but through the din
Of its loud life hints and echoes
from the life behind steal in.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

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And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
John Wyndham

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§ The Exercise:

dear heart

if mirrors echo light
as echoes mirror sound
that feeling full of empty
love engraved on hollow ground
that wish to undo a wish
was wanting you around

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class: less wars

echo events
status: intense
parallel people
of perilous intent
ignoring history
refuse to relent
remembered tomorrow
as evil and bent
but new lines get drawn
historical, as meant

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5s ‘n 7s

echoing role oxygen
greens clinging to rocks, brown earth
living climbing rising things
brash exuberance extant
with harvestings, vultures too

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rememb’rings incriminate
echoes don’t discriminate
brandishing new blandishments
history as memory
weird, how now and then relate

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indescribable echo
born undecipherable
old love that was lovelier
turned mean and irascible
still tempting, available

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silver, second’s ornament
award worthy adornment
still echo golden moments
recognize true achievement
warriors, champion born

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burgeoning restaurant chain
echo menus all the same
secret sauce ingredient
essential oil: mistletoe
christmas kiss, the place to go

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anonymous lost to fame
synonymous, lose the game
promise lost to echo’s helm
and most, inconceivably
there be loses overwhelm

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censorship in vogue
needs a wall to block
looks to pen the pen
wicked world of words
as captured in books
voices want echoes
walls but bounce them back

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serendipity
fated happenstance
infatuation
improbable love
crescendos echo
flowers and candy
cupid’s failed crusade

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beauty of the eyes
curves in humor, of body
echo in the loins
smart, please, but give me kindness
this first, over all the rest

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the echo seasons return
old sterling plaudits well-earned
balding, not bold, a concern
reworked plot twistings get spurned
thrice-burned lesson twice learned

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love says: give to get
spending habits, profligate
soon they echo debt
venders’ tender monied belt
this then, when the pinch is felt

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frustrations echo
pre-boil to parboil
stove-top emotions
add ire to the fire
then the commotion

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whole bread over white
black coffee for added bite
brown rice healthy twice
odd meals and exotic spice
it’s a full life done up right

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don’t get argument but you don’t get results.
~Robert A Heinlein

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare’s definition of “echo,”–babbling gossips of the air.
~Josh Billings

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In some Mayan villages they even have a stage beyond the elder that they call the Echo Person. They say that when an Echo Person, whether a man or a woman, speaks, the words echo both in this world and in the other world. That’s why they are called Echo People.
~Robert Bly

I’ve noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That’s because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

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When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.
~Henry David Thoreau

I live in the borderlands. The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism. My visions echo and multiplymultiply. I don’t know how to figure out what they mean. I can’t tell where they start or if they will end. But I know this. If they shrink my head any more, or float me away on an ocean of pills, I will never return.
~Laurie Halse Anderson

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This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture ‒ and who incidentally were still roaming the landscape at the time the paintings were made. It is striking that there is a distant cultural echo that seems to reach all the way down to us, over dozens of millennia.
~Werner Herzog

Art for art’s sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
~E M Forster

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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
~Joseph Joubert

A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.
~Charles Robert Maturin

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Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales ‒ because they find them romantic…This proves that even nursery tales only echo an almost prenatal leap of interest and amazement. These tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
~Gilbert K Chesterton

But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap.
~Vincent Van Gogh

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Man … has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean’s roar.
~Horace Mann

I know it’s stupid to not own a gun yet have so many triggers, but in some other world gigantic seashells hold humans to their ears and listen to the echo of machines.
~Jeffrey McDaniel

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We’ve lost control of this planet somewhere. There’s an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you’re powerless facing those phenomena.
~Francis Alys

If thou couldst, doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud you again.
~William Shakespeare

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I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.
~Virginia Woolf

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.
~Naomi Wolf

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O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

What would it profit thee to be the first
Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,
A thing that answers, but hath not a thought
As lasting but as senseless as a stone.
~Frederick Tennyson (brother to Alfred Lord Tennyson)

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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
~Jonathan Swift

Echoes are more noisy than the source.
~Toba Beta

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All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper’s brain, and he is with them, and part of them.
~Daphne du Maurier

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?
~Colleen McCullough

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Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder, yonder.
~Carl Sandburg

Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
~E M Forster

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A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
~George William Curtis

The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.
~Rabindranath Tagore

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Julie looks at me like she’s waiting for more, and I wonder if I’ve expressed anything at all with my halting, mumbled soliloquy. Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning in ellipses.
~Isaac Marion

“What in the world are you thinking?” She sounded pretty flustered. “I try not to think,” Leo admitted. “It interferes with being nuts… Echo, you ready?”
~Rick Riordan

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A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love.
~Honore de Balzac

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
~Charles M Schulz

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This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian…
~Derek Walcott

The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. This creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.
~Rebecca Solnit

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I did not begin when I was born, nor when I was conceived. I have been growing, developing, through incalculable myriads of millenniums… All my previous selves have their voices, echoes, promptings in me… Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born.
~Jack London (The Star Rover)

Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
~George Eliot

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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom’s words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.
~Jonathan Maberry (of the living dead)

It has nothing to do with age, it’s not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It’s a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego’s shell. True life can’t ever start, until we offer up our heart.
~Dawud Wharnsby Ali

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When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
~John G Shedd

Every something is an echo of nothing
~John Cage (either computer scientist, or art historian)

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~Richard Wright

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!
~Ray Bradbury

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Quoted In The Grove:
I’ve realized why I don’t tell the truth in interviews. It’s because they’re printed months later, and you change so quickly ‒ you have new thoughts, new everything ‒ so people are reading an old version of you.
~Nicholas Hoult

*IT Like, that was weird in ‘Hamlet 2,’ because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, ‘Oh, I’m not playing myself. I’m some weird version of myself.’ So as an actress, you’re always playing something, I don’t even know who I am, how could I become me? I don’t know what that is.
~Elisabeth Shue

In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else’s version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours fathoming it.
~Mark Helprin

EndQuote:
I only have one note, let’s be honest. But I’ll play a different version of that one note.
~David Spade

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Next Exercise Prompt: test

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My dad was a slightly stricter version of Richard Dawkins. The worldview was that there are idiots out there who believe in Santa Claus and fairies and magic and elves, and we’re not joining that nonsense.
~Alain de Botton

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
~Emil Cioran

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.
~Laura van den Berg

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I think it’s a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you’ll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.
~Cass Sunstein

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
~Harvey Milk

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
~Blaise Pascal

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My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let’s all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I’m not that kind of guy. It’s an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it’s not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.
~Billy Corgan

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door ‒ or I’ll make a door.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?
~Ralph Marston

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Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.
~John Podhoretz

We’re on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we’re toggling between them. That’s just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed.
~Walter Kirn

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.
~Steve Carell

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Nature’s patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It’s nature’s version of nature versus nurture.
~Brian Greene

Dogs have such short life spans, it’s like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.
~Caroline Knapp

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~Hal Borland

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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you’ve run delirium’s course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
~Floyd Skloot

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road ‒ you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
~Zadie Smith

I don’t have to play by these rules or do these things… I can actually have my own kind of version.
~Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins, WWE promoter)

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You’ve got to give your past attention, but you’ve got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can’t not fly anymore because of the things you’ve been through. You’ve got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.
~Jon Jones

Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don’t judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don’t let them define you. Don’t try to become a watered down version of yourself.
~Valerie Azlynn

You should realize that there is only one version of yourself in the world and that your flaws make you beautiful.
~Madison Beer

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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.
~Dove Cameron

Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
~Marianne Williamson

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Posted From The Grove

Whether it’s ‘Veep‘ or ‘Homeland’ or ‘The West Wing‘ ‒ which is a more idealised version of democracy ‒ people are fascinated by politics.
~Kevin Spacey

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
~George Jean Nathan

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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
~Dwight D Eisenhower

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.
~David Icke (COVID related)

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
~Ayn Rand

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
~Joseph Addison

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
~Barack Obama

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First of all, I’m in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn’t vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.
~Marty Meehan

For too long, our country’s version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
~Bob Beauprez

I’d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I’m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.
~Geraldine Ferraro

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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
~Thomas Mann

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
~Vaclav Klaus

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One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
~Norman Davies

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
~Zbigniew Brzezinski

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The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi’s version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.
~Barkha Dutt

General Zia-ul-Haq [Pakistan], a dictator and unscrupulous political actor, used Islam as a pretext for waging war in Afghanistan and adopting an aggressive stance towards India. By advancing a more orthodox version of Islam, he was able to hold on to a repressive regime and quell any opposition.
~Asma Jahangir

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject – whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber – to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
~Thomas Frank

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I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists’ advertising or recruiting technique.
~Elia Kazan

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.
~Oliver North

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There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.
~Bruce Cockburn (Canadian musician)

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I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
~Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
~Al Gore

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second [….] administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we’ve seen in the first administration.
~Robert Reich

President Obama’s version of America is a divided one ‒ pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.
~Mia Love

Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism ‒ the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. […..] has.
~John Ridley

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters’ eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won’t say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don’t know.
~Gwen Ifill

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Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
~John Bercow (former Speaker, House of Commons)

Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.
~Jonathan Sacks

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive ‒ no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
~Andrew O’Hagan

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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
~Patricia Hill Collins

I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
~Marco Rubio

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Call it Camelot’s revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long ‒ because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
~Rick Perlstein

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
~G Gordon Liddy

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CBS’s Major Garrett writes in ‘National Journal’ about a new version of the ‘stray voltage’ theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy.
~John Dickerson

I worked for Sarah Palin. I have the political staffer version of P.T.S.D., so whenever I hear that she’s breaking her silence, my heart stops.
~Nicolle Wallace

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Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.
~Sarah West

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The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.
~Russ Feingold

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In 2008… [Obama] was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
~Bob Beauprez

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future
~Michael D Higgins

We got to go one step further than even ‘Make in India.’ Let’s make India itself ‒ India 2.0, the updated version.
~Kamal Haasan

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I’m not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I’m a black man.
~Mike Epps

How many of the original songs survive intact from the slave cabins? Probably not many in their original form. Time has transformed them like light in a prism. What we hope to present is a version of those spirituals, and they speak not just to black Americans, but to people worldwide.
~Kathleen Battle

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Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet’s Planeteers.
~Issa Rae

As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a ‘good’ version of yourself. And then when you’re with your home girls, you’re saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you’re speaking the way that you’re comfortable with.
~Katori Hall

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I’ve jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there’s a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer ‒ my version of him ‒ that’s in his collection.
~Kehinde Wiley

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The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of racism, it is a form of racism. It is part of a rearguard and increasingly unsustainable defence of a fantasy monochrome version of British history.
~David Olusoga

‘Be faithful to your roots’ is the liberal version of ‘Stay in your ghetto.’
~Mason Cooley

I think all good reporting is the same thing ‒ the best attainable version of the truth.
~Carl Bernstein

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Every time I see something about the Wild West, I’m reminded that our version of history may not be what really happened.
~James McBride

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
~David Icke

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If I am communicating to my readers exactly what the White House believes on any certain issue, that’s reporting to them an unvarnished, unfiltered version of what they ‒ the Administration ‒ believe.
~Jeff Gannon

I feel like I owe it to the readers to try to pull back the veil and give them the honest version of what’s going on. But it’s not more fun. If Obama, as he does sometimes already, gets a little snippy with me about something I’ve written, you’re thinking, ‘Oh God, the president of the United States is already annoyed with me.’
~Maureen Dowd

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It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
~Ben Shapiro

One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one’s version matches up 100% with other people’s, even if it’s three or four people on a conference call.
~David Garrow

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I just feel that I don’t agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that’s sensationalized.
~Bernadine Dohrn (the Irish question)

If you are a great news organization, you can’t have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
~Carl Bernstein

The authorized biographers ‒ the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject’s life ‒ sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
~Kitty Kelley

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I really like to read when I’m eating ‒ ‘The New York Times‘ or the ‘Wall Street Journal,’ paper version.
~Kevin Nealon

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~Strangelove: English version (14:07) a lesson, a meditation, a story based on poker

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~Paul; Del Vecchio: Interview With An Applicant (3:53) sketch comedy inversion

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~onemed iamusic: The Four Yorkshiremen Sketch (3:36) antique British humor, a diversion

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Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
~Dave Barry

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Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you’re building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version ‒ so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.
~Kevin McCloud

You’ve got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn’t a version two or three if there isn’t a great version one.
~Brendan Iribe

The mistake isn’t releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don’t want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room at Harvard.
~Eric Ries

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When it comes to consumer electronics, I’m a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can’t resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.
~Susan Orlean

Accept that the moment you buy your latest iPad, iPhone, tablet, app or game it will be promptly followed by a vastly improved and sleeker looking version.
~Simon Mainwaring

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When you drill down, blockchains are really a shared version of reality everyone agrees on. So whether it’s a fully immersive VR experience, augmented reality, or even Bitcoin or Ethereum in the physical world as a shared ledger for our ‘real world,’ we’ll increasingly trust blockchains as our basis for reality.
~Fred Ehrsam

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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My supplements are similar to my training ‒ I always commit to being a better version of myself.
~Ronnie Coleman

Training is a part of being the best version of yourself and you need to be the best version of yourself to be successful.
~Bugzy Malone

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I’ve been living my own version of success since the early ’90s when I first got signed. I haven’t had a job since then.
~Juliana Hatfield (singer/song writer)

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And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.
~Erno Rubik

I don’t think there’s a… boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.
~Bill Gates

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There’s only one side with me. You get the right side. You get the correct version of the facts.
~Kevin O’Leary (Mr Wonderful)

With ‘Back to the Future‘, time-traveling lets you go back to a better, more comfortable life where your parents are happy and you have a lot of money ‒ the capitalistic version of time travel.
~Celine Sciamma

I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.
~Guy Spier

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When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.
~Adam Davidson

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Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we’ve seen, they just won’t do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we’re trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
~Dean Kamen

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
~George Lucas

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This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
~Timothy Geithner

The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. ‘The General Strike‘ attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model.
~Justin Sane

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Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.
~Guy Kawasaki

My favorite video game of all time is called ‘Black Tiger‘. It’s a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
~Ernest Cline

Mandy Rose is basically an exaggerated version of myself. It’s all about confidence. She’s a bit of a mean girl and ‘I’m prettier than you and better than you.’ I’m not quite like that in real life.
~Mandy Rose (WWE)

Tully was the first young, handsome, cocky, well-dressed bad guy. He was our version of Ric Flair before I knew who Ric Flair was. This was before cable TV or any of that, and Tully was our Ric Flair.
~Shawn Michaels (WWE)

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You don’t have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.
~Robert Griffin III

You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you’ve driven, and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn’t realize I hadn’t experienced the real version of.’
~Tom Segura

Hockey historians say the handshake dates to English settlers in Canada, who preached an upper-class version of sportsmanship in the 19th century. Soon, tough kids in urban and prairie rinks began imitating imagined dukes and earls of the old country.
~George Vecsey

My favourite game is wiffle ball, a fake version of baseball with a plastic ball and bat that’s really for kids.
~Ty Burrell

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I believe that one version of the good in life can be defined by the moments I sometimes had playing tennis as a sixteen-year-old. You’d be out on the court and for an hour, two hours, sometimes an entire roasting hot day, and every single thing you hit would go in. Hit that ball as hard as you wanted, wherever you wanted, and it went in.
~Atul Gawande

We ship a new version of Google Play Services every six weeks. Typically, 90 percent of users are on the new version of that.
~Sundar Pichai

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§ VIDEO:

I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a ‘cinematic’ dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
~Walter Murch

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon ‒ a gaudier version of religion.
~Ben Hecht

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There’s always going to be that pressure when you’re in front of the camera. When you’re famous it’s just an extreme version of reality and there’s a pressure to look a certain way.
~Geri Halliwell

A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you’ve seen it before, and it’s a new version of it.
~Malin Akerman

There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of ’92 to look at his version.
~Madeleine Stowe (The Last of The Mohicans)

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I was briefly in the original version of ‘Tombstone,’ but I didn’t make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.
~Joshua Jackson

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes ‒ sometimes whole sequences ‒ that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn’t made it into the final cut.
~Brian Sibley

See, the ‘On the Road’ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – ‘You must live life this way’ – and these guys were bored.
~Garrett Hedlund

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they’re watching isn’t the original.
~Todd Solondz
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It’s a big part of what we do ‒ we test our movies extensively. I’m always there myself. It’s sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it’s a version of the movie that’s not working particularly well.
~Bobby Farrelly

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I feel close to Lloyd in ‘Say Anything‘. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I’m not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
~John Cusack

When you’re playing a romantic version of a real person, you’re playing a version of the truth.
~Andrea Riseborough

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Milan Kundera was my literature professor. He’s a Francophile, so he made us read French novels like ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses,’ which I made a version of many years later as ‘Valmont.’
~Milos Forman

I think any writer coming on to ‘Batman‘ should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.
~Grant Morrison

I’ll do any kind of movie, as long as it’s a good version of it.
~Mark Duplass

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Point Omega‘ starts in an art gallery, where an unnamed man is watching, day after day, a 24-hour version of ‘Psycho,’ an installation that was created by the Scottish artist, Douglas Gordon. In it, the events and the minutiae of Hitchcock’s film are painfully slowly reproduced; the watcher is obsessed with the detail revealed.
~Justin Cartwright

The original ‘Edge of Darkness‘ was fantastic, a fabulous series. It was of its time, but this film version shows that times really haven’t changed.
~Ray Winstone

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Telling Alan Turing’s story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.
~Graham Moore

That’s right; I was watching ‘From Russia With Love‘, one of my favourite Bond movies, and suddenly thought that I’d love to see a version of this from Tatiana Romanova’s point of view. Or, better yet; what if she was the hero? What if this was her story, and Bond was just a side character?
~Antony Johnston (Lady Dimitrescu)

The stoic drama ‘A Somewhat Gentle Man‘ is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that match Stellan Skarsgard’s complexion. It’s a low-blood-pressure version of the kind of thing James M. Cain used to do in his sleep, and its filmmaking accomplishment is as minimalist as its narrative ambition is minimal.
~Elvis Mitchell

Ida‘ doesn’t set out to explain history. That’s not what it’s about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They’re not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.
~Pawel Pawlikowski

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I was traumatized by the cartoon version of ‘The Hobbit [1977].’ It’s not supposed to be scary, I don’t think, but literally I think that’s the most scared I’ve ever been.
~Emily Meade

Mike Mignola’s ‘Hellboy‘ was influenced by Lovecraft big time. He wanted to make his monsters Lovecraftian. But I think many other films have been influenced by Lovecraft – like ‘Alien,’ which is almost an outer-space version of ‘At The Mountains Of Madness.’
~Guillermo del Toro

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The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her… She is Molly. (Rabbit-Proof Fence)
~Phillip Noyce

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I’d love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of ‘The Hangover,’ but I’d love to. If I did it it’d star Juliette Lewis, because she’s the funniest woman in the world. She’s my favorite actress on the planet. If we did a character-based comedy about women, I don’t see it out of my range.
~Todd Phillips

If you want to do a female version of ‘The Expendables,’ I’ll be in that one.
~Pierce Brosnan

I think you’re attracted to things that are different from yourself in a character because it’s more interesting, and you get to play out a fantasy version of yourself.
~Felicity Jones

I do love playing aristocrats, probably because it’s so against type. So much more interesting than playing a version of yourself.
~Keeley Hawes

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it’s some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn’t outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
~Christoph Waltz

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A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I’m not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.
~Matthew Fox

There’s something grounded about ‘Ugly Americans,’ so I think it’s good that I’m playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
~Natasha Leggero

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I probably wouldn’t make a good accountant. I don’t even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he’s a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.
~Matthew Broderick

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Most people don’t know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor… But I’ve performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he’s gay so that the landlord won’t evict him.
~John Ritter

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I I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
~Dakota Fanning

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The tsar of War and Peace, especially in the BBC version, is a complete popinjay and a useless character. The real tsar, Alexander I, had an amazing career.
~Simon Sebag Montefiore

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
~Henry Cavill

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
~Benedict Cumberbatch

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.
~Jack Dee

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Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it’s not. It’s for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it’s just the most extreme version of that that I’ve ever found. It’s like running, it’s exertion.
~Kristen Stewart

Sometimes I can receive the world and regurgitate my version of events easily and sometimes it’s hard.
~Andrea Riseborough

The thing about Spike Lee… that’s a deep experience to work with someone who is that intense and knows their vision that well. The character I play in ‘Red Hook Summer‘ is super country and super loud. I suppose he is some version of myself.
~Jon Batiste

I’m so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He’s an amazing director and I can’t wait to see the long version.
~Orlando Bloom

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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
~Walter Hill

I figure if it’s turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it’s hard to really picture the DVD version when I’m in production.
~Jay Roach

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~Guizz Arts: Version Originale (8:30) gaming for movie rights, subtitled

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~Diane Louise Salinger: French Version (2:40) reliving losing Joan of Arc

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~Omeleto: Where Have You Been (9:26) version of what might have been

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~Omeleto: GOOD NIGHT (8:20) just because

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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn’t work; obviously, in the case of ‘The Office,’ it did. But a lot of times, it doesn’t really work.
~Chris Hardwick

I like ‘The Office.’ I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the ‘Seinfeld‘ show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.
~Dick Van Dyke

Obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is ‘Iron Chef.’ Not the stupid American version; ‘Iron Chef‘ Japanese; the real one, the one that was on in Japan… my DVR for years was set to record almost every single ‘Iron Chef‘ episode.
~Tucker Max

I hate ‘The Voice.’ I think everyone thought ‘The Voice U.K.’ would be like the U.S. version, and it’s not.
~Louis Walsh

Some version of ‘Deal or No Deal‘ airs in 120 countries. And they play it exactly the same way, with models and briefcases. It crosses language and culture and gender, because it’s the simplest game in the world, and everyone wants to press their luck.
~Howie Mandel

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There’s a series of children’s books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
~Barry Sonnenfeld

I was really so excited when it came back on air and I saw all three of the actors who played ‘Doctor Who‘ in the new version and they’ve all been absolutely brilliant in their own special way, as all the Doctors always are.
~Sophie Aldred

Remember the diner in ‘Happy Days?’ I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
~Flavor Flav

With a lot of shows, what you’ll see happen is they start off really well, and they’re very original, but they become sort of a version of themselves. They stand outside the show… they become a cliche of the show they once were. That’s the whole ‘jumping the shark’ thing.
~Peter Dinklage

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I’m quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I’m on camera I’m pumping more adrenaline, I’m being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that’s normal, isn’t it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
~Kevin McCloud

For me, there’s no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it’s more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.
~Julian Barratt

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Films for TV have to be much closer to the book, mainly because the objective with a TV movie that translates literature is to get the audience, after seeing this version, to pick up the book and read it themselves. My attitude is that TV can never really be any form of art, because it serves audience expectations.
~Michael Haneke

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So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album, because there’s been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of ‘The Most Offensive Song Ever‘ with lyrics intact.
~Trey Parker

Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.
~David Hepworth (BBC archive entertainment network, digital radio)

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There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there… watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years… Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
~Bruce Campbell

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
~Peter Davison

Artists ‒ musicians, painters, writers, poets ‒ always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
~Billy Joel

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they’re trying to write about. They have music.
~Thom Yorke

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
~John Baldacci

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An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes ‒ and as with memes in their original version.
~Richard Dawkins

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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.
~Quentin Tarantino

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you’ve done.
~Ridley Scott

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I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.
~Marina (of The Diamonds)

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If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it’s a small version of the whole building; that’s why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
~Charles Jencks

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As an artist I’m very aware of what I call Picasso-napkin syndrome ‒ I’ve got this 20th century version of the midas touch, where if I do a little doodle it’s worth money!
~Grayson Perry

Everything I do is part of my passion. I do the things I like to do. It’s sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby. I love to play piano, sing, and act. I love to do all those things.
~Harry Connick, Jr

If you’ve done a brilliant version it becomes something else.
~Kenneth Branagh

I’m named after a horse. My mom’s best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested ‘Brooklyn’ as a more formal version, and it just stuck – and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure.
~Brooklyn Decker

I feel like I’m a much better person when I’m developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I’m just working on my analytical mind.
~Brit Marling

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I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called ‘Goose and Tomtom‘ by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I’m doing the table read of the film version of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross‘ with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon ‒ one of the great films of our generation.
~Richard Schiff

We’re trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It’s going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of ‘8 Mile.’
~Justin Bieber

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of ‘Dynasty?’ No thanks!
~Sade Adu

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Even on the stage, I’ve played a bit of a persona, and the persona I played was a much brasher, more arrogant, less aware, less educated version of me.
~Ricky Gervais

I’m a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
~Usher

Stiles is a version of me that rarely exists in the real world. He’s so confident and extroverted, and I’m much more restrained and internal.
~Dylan O’Brien

Especially, I don’t want to ever be compared to The Rock because I’d be the poor man’s version of The Rock. I’m just not him; it’s not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock’s very big and bold, and I’m not.
~Dave Bautista

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
~Jason Ritter

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I’m used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don’t have much time to get to know me.
~Halsey

It’s exciting to have a role in anything that’s Claymation, just because you’re always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
~John Oliver

When I’m not working, I want to be the version of the person that I was born to be. I was born with curly hair. It fits my personality, and it’s totally who I am. I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.
~Erin Wasson

I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that’s Notch. It’s a censored version. The real me is Markus.
~Markus Persson (game designer)

I don’t feel like I’m in competitive with anybody. If I’m worried about beating somebody else, I’m not going to be the best version of me. It shouldn’t be a competition because somebody else winning is not going to make me lose.
~Megan Thee Stallion

Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don’t have that stuff, it’s kind of a one dimensional version of it.
~Zack Snyder

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Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
~Judy Garland.

I’m just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.
~Trey Young

Be the best version of yourself rather than a bad copy of someone else!
~Conchita Wurst

Try to really focus in on what makes you the best version of you.
~Julius Randle

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
~Seth Godin

I don’t stress about the outcome because I know the only thing I have control over is my own hard work. So long as I’m being honest about that and striving to be the best version of myself, I’m happy.
~Kiara Advani

The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be…
~Ashley Rickards

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§ MUSIC:

Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.
~Pete Townshend

That’s what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it’s magic!
~Ry Cooder

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My private joke about ‘Luke Cage‘ is that it’s a bulletproof version of ‘Lemonade,’ and that, essentially, it’s a concept album that has a video component.
~Cheo Hodari Coker

There’s no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
~Stephen Malkmus

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After months of playing air guitar to ‘Free Bird‘, what really got me into guitar was watching a documentary about Jimi Hendrix and picking up the Woodstock soundtrack. Listening to his version of ‘Star Spangled Banner‘ and ‘Purple Haze.’ My brother played acoustic guitar and, idolising him, I thought, ‘I’m going to get a guitar.’
~Kirk Hammett (Metallica)

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton’s ‘Tears In Heaven,’ then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.
~Neil Jackson

I don’t have a favorite song that I’ve written. But I do have a favorite song: ‘Always on My Mind,’ the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
~BB King

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I’ve never been one for doing remixes. Then I’ve gotta decide which version am I gonna be tonight: country Carrie or pop Carrie? I’d rather just make country music that anybody can get into no matter what they listen to.
~Carrie Underwood

I think differently, I think it’s about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that’s great. If I could do a classical version, that’ll be great too. It’s all just about expression.
~Deborah Cox

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don’t see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix‒ it’s really a different version of the song.
~Deborah Cox

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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the ’80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways…
All this fashion stuff ‒ who’s cool now ‒ is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
~Beth Ditto

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.
~Marc Jacobs

Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of ’30s Universal monster movies.
~Mojo Nixon

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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen’s music to Australia it would be this: don’t let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don’t let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
~Wayne Swan

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.
~Nellie McKay

I was five years old, onstage singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star‘ ‒ a rock version ‒ and I was always wanting to entertain. But the biggest thing for me is just country music has helped me get through the worst times of my life and the best times of my life. I want to give that back to people.
~Jana Kramer

Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that’s just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that’s been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so.
~Rob Sheffield

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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
~Ken Burns

When I write a tune and it’s been like this for many years ‒ I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.
~John Scofield

I’m a big techno fan. I love that thumping kick drum. We heard a version of ‘Lost in Love’ and it was thrash metal. It sounded cool!
~Graham Russell

*IT ‘Cry Baby‘ is like this fairytale version of me. A lot of it is based on real events, and some of it is made up to make it more whimsical.
~Melanie Martinez

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for ‘Puppy Love‘ and I just didn’t want to. Then I thought I’d have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite… I am fine with ‘Puppy Love.’ I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. ‘Puppy Love.’
~Donny Osmond

(Paul Anka wrote, sings, and lip syncs in this early version of Puppy Love. The Top 10 list on the board behind the announcer surprises with the songs from Feb, 1960. ~Ed Note)

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I’m the Nickelodeon version of DangerMouse.
~Bruno Mars

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I’ve also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.
~Alanis Morissette

I mistakably paid respect and condolences to the wrong Beastie Boy member King Ad-Rock when it should have been MCA. In light of this, I am redoing the song ‘Hip Hop Speaks From Heaven‘ and I am pulling the original version off of my digital release. Historical accuracy is extremely important to me, so I accept all responsibility for this error.
~KRS-One

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version.
~Andrew Gower

If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
~J K Simmons

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‘Encore.’ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
~Eminem

I’m glad I can present a polished version of myself when it counts.
~Carrie Underwood

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The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they’re like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.
~Diablo Cody

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan’s biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.
~James Wolcott

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I’m sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
~Anna Kendrick

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Because they’re my stories, they’re my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.
~Emeli Sande

George Benson’s ‘This Masquerade‘ is my favorite version of Leon Russell’s blue gem.
~Alice Ripley

She’s Dynamite‘ was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n’ roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n’ roll.
~BB King

*IT I’ll tell you what I really loved: the version of ‘Somebody to Love‘ that was in ‘Happy Feet.’ That was fantastic.
~Roger Taylor

Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of ‘America.’
~Chris Squire (YES)

I Want To Hold Your Hand‘ is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach – Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
~George Benson

Jim Morrison’s very good looking, but I don’t like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.
~Maurice Gibb (Light My Fire)

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that’s usually the case when there’s a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
~Sam Hunt (a remix)

The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
~Harry Connick, Jr

I would love to play ‘Funny Girl’ or ‘Evita,’ but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don’t know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
~Idina Menzel

We don’t need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn’t be Woody Guthrie… I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don’t need the 50th generation version of it.
~Buzz Osborne

There’s a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.
~Sheryl Crow

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I even done a doo-wop version of the Mickey Mouse march.
~Aaron Neville

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of ‘Purple Haze‘ that has some bluegrass licks in it.
~Eugene Chadbourne (multi-instrumentalist)

I just didn’t expect an acoustic version of Rock’n’Roll All Nite
~Ace Frehley

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Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it’s not about what Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix were about ‒ which included great images, sure, but they had spiritual and political and revolutionary content, too.
~Patti Smith

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My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner and play Portuguese folk songs on it. I couldn’t wait for him to finish so I could get my hands on it. I was seven or eight years old. And he used to have a Fender amp in his house and an electric guitar. I would spend hours making sounds.
~Joe Perry

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a ’70s version of Cher.
~Patti Smith

It’s not that I’m trying to write another ‘7 Years‘ or a new version of ‘Mama Said.’ Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.
~Lukas Forchhammer [of Lukas Graham]

Five or six songs leaked from the original version of ‘Encore.’ So I had to go in and make new songs to replace them.
~Eminem

*IT I’m writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I’ve brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
~Phil Collins

I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio.
~Clint Black

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I started crying, because there’s nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
~Kelly Rowland

In a sense, a hit belongs to the person who made it popular, but if a tune is good enough to attain tremendous success, then it certainly deserves more than one version, one treatment, one approach.
~Les Baxter

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Versions Disguised As Covers

~Beethoven: Ode to Joy • “Hans-Sachs”-Choir/Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg (6:30) quiet start builds to a crescendo, with attending shivers

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~Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah • Allie Sherlock (5:04) why street music sometimes feels more lived in

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~Beatles: Something (4:44) deleted scene from the movie, Yesterday

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The House of the Rising Son • The House on Cliff (5:02) rooftop performance, in two words

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~John Newton: Amazing Grace • Dan Vasc (5:09) metal goes gospel

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~Jimmy Dorsey: I Remember You • Ariana Stefanidis (3:48) as jazz would have it

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~Paul Anka wrote a song for, and about, Mr Sinatra: My Way (4:49) a surprisingly stern performance

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~Radiohead: Creep • Pub Choir (4:15) all together now

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~Bill Withers: Ain’t No Sunshine • Elise LeGrow (3:25) stylish, with grey loss and darkness in evidence

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~Beatles: With a little help from my friends • Meja and the Peace Conspiracy (5:22) Joe Cocker worthy rendition

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~Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Waters • KBS Kpop (5:03) from slow sweet current to rousing, barely bridgeable torrent

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~Beatles: In My Life • Madison Cunningham w/ Mike Viola (3:21) adds a twist, a musical lilt to the melody

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~George Gershwin: Summertime • Joanne Shaw Taylor w/ Joe Bonamassa (5:47) guitars can sing too

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~Beatles: Yesterday • Hope Winter (3:51) starts a song, ends a story

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Each couple’s version of intimacy is so fascinating to me. A friend will tell me about her marriage, and I’ll think, ‘Yikes, they have horrible communication! They’re going to get divorced!’ And then I’ll hear about them at another time and think, ‘Wow, they love each other so much!’
~Miranda July

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Exes are like our old diaries‒they know the whole truth and the unedited version of you. If you can still attain their respect after the relationship you must have done something well.
~Nontobeko Sibiya

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else’s flaws, so of course you’re gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, ‘If you loved me, you wouldn’t criticise me.’ Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
~Alain de Botton

It’s just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.
~Matt Damon

I truly believe that when you’ve found the one you’re searching for, you become a better version of yourself. You’re better for it.
~Hunter Hayes

I have always believed that love is what helps you develop into the best person you are. It’s a selfless emotion, but people usually follow the corrupted version.
~Asin

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don’t love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won’t be the best version of you.
~Kimora Lee Simmons

I’m on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.
~Kyle Shewfelt

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.
~Mia Maestro

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Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
~Emile M Cioran

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There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
~Michael Stipe

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
~Andrew Sullivan

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I’m interested in sex as a way of communication, I’m not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
~Maggie Gyllenhaal

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In any relationship that comes to an end, there’s never just a baseline reason why. You say, ‘Oh, I broke up with my girlfriend.’ Someone says, ‘Why?’ You say, ‘Well, you got three hours? And then maybe after I tell you my version, you’ve got to talk to her.’
~Michael Rapaport

I don’t know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
~Michelle Williams

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
~Shawn Amos

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of ‘Les Miserables‘ in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from ‘Psycho.’ My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.
~Dexter Fletcher

I think it’s a very dangerous game to play when you assume that just because someone’s an entertainer, they’re automatically a role model. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself. They’re just doing their own version of entertaining.
~Wentworth Miller

My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I’m living a ‘Sliding Doors‘ [double] version of my life.
~Renee Elise Goldsberry

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I don’t know… part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
~Kate Winslet

The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
~Natalie Portman

Grandmothers hold a special place in our hearts. They spoil us, spend quality time, and teach us important lessons. They’re the fun version of our parents.
~Craig Ruvere

If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
~William Golding

I guess you just feel like there’s a whole story that’s not being told in movies. You’re only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman’s side, may be completely different.
~Heather Graham

Social media is all about presenting the happiest, most positive version of yourself to the world. I’m here to say that we all have bad days and that it’s easy to feel isolated ‒ but the truth is that beneath the sassy facade all girls suffer from the same insecurities.
~Carrie Hope Fletcher

I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it’s all right. It’s OK to have that awkward phase.
~Rumer Willis

Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.
~Rachel Simmons

As women, many of us have internalised our lives as a prolonged version of boot camp, a sort of Darwinian call to toughen up or perish. As young women, we are terrified that men we consider our mentors can turn out to be monsters.
~Barkha Dutt

My body doesn’t have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don’t have hips ‒ so I’m not going to try to make myself something that I’m not. I’m just going to try to be the best version of myself.
~Sara Sampaio

We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like ‘Vogue‘ do is the professional version of the retouching we do when we, for example, apply Instagram filters to the pictures we take and share on our social networks.
~Roxane Gay

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it’s kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you’d like to be seen, in a way.
~Trent Reznor

When we’re in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment’s notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again.
~Jane McGonigal

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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I’d be a dog on the Internet, and we’d have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn’t work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
~Peter Thiel

All my friends call me ‘Gogi’ because that’s the short version for Goran.
~Goran Dragic

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I’ll come up with an idea for a character, and I’ll write some jokes and make sure that that character is going to have some legs to it ‒that it’s really going to work. If I can come up with jokes and material that I think will work, then I make a cheap version of the doll. Achmed started out just being this little plastic toy from the store.
~Jeff Dunham

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I’m right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what’s coming, they won’t laugh as hard.
~James Burrows

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren’t hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they’re excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.
~Anthony Jeselnik

We then took a shortened version of what we’d been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
~Neil Innes

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.
~Jon Favreau

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Not being dead is my version of partying. So far, so good.
~Andrew W K

I would like to say this for the record: that I am not trying to lose weight or gain weight. I am just trying to be the best version of myself, and that’s really important.
~Huma Qureshi

Don’t compare yourself with someone else’s version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.
~Caroline Rhea

There is no picturesque version of what self-care looks like; it’s different for every person who wants to practice it.
~Jenna Wortham

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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that’s not how it is for me. When I’m over 200 pounds, that’s when I’m the most confident version of myself.
~Garrett Hedlund

To be anorexic…she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.
~Meg Wolizer

I’m on my version of the protein diet, but there ain’t no protein in it. It’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut between two Cinnabons. And you soak it overnight in Red Bull. Then you chase it with a Snickers.
~J B Smoove

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

All Southern cooks have tried their hands at shrimp and grits, and each one has his or her own version of the dish. My mom used to season her shrimp with garlic and onion and just prepare the grits with a little salt and pepper.
~Gina Neely

I’ve got a beautiful kitchen, which looks like a ’60s version of space, with silver chrome, orange glass work surfaces, and brown leather, and it’s entirely visual and has little function. I’ve hardly got any knives, and there’s only one wooden spoon and one saucepan. But I think I’ve got a cheese grater, so that’s good.
~Noel Fielding

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I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It’s an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it’s so good!
~Paula Deen

A dollop of bleu cheese dressing in a guacamole nearly tips it into dessert.
~author unknown

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my own version of it now, with macaroni and cheese and hamburger meat. And the kids ‒ it’s their favorite dinner.
~Reese Witherspoon

I make a dog-friendly version of almost everything that we make for dinner.
~Rachael Ray

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I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids’ palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril’s Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
~Emeril Lagasse

In my home I tend to eat a very simple version of what we cook at the restaurant, which is vegetable-oriented, with a little bit of fish and very little meat. For instance, a dish in my home could be steamed spinach with spruce, where I take a spruce branch and put it in the pot and that infuses into the spinach.
~Rene Redzepi

I’m not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
~Michelle Obama

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Whether in light touches or for a more glamorous look, I never go out without make-up ‒ even if it’s only a lick of mascara. And I always wear perfume, a light or more intense version.
~Dree Hemingway (model/actress)

As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I’m wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.
~Brie Larson

People want to express themselves ‒ that’s what fashion is for. You can go to Target and get something that Rodarte designed for $34, but would you want to go buy the higher version for $3,400? I think most people would say no.
~Kelly Cutrone

Often, I feel like a cheap imitation aesthetically looks better to me than the real, out-of-reach thing. It’s amazing that brands create a whole illusion of exclusivity and luxury, and then you can go get the $5 version of a $30,000 thing and feel the same way but have a cool little secret.
~Hunx (of His Punx)

Michael Bastian is a designer line and priced a certain way because of where it’s made and the materials we use, and Gant is the more accessible version of that: more sports-inspired, more branding. It has the same DNA; it’s just a different time and place.
~Michael Bastian

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I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that’s the case, then I guess I’m happy to hear it.
~Ken Watanabe

Everyone has a different definition of what they find sexy, so why do we so often get given one version of what sexy is time and time again?
~Olly Alexander

Sexy is about the way you wear something and being confident ‒ the clothes are sexy and flattering. I’ve said right from the beginning, it’s very important clothes are flattering. I want a woman to look and feel like the best version of herself.
~Victoria Beckham

I think clothing is transformative. When you put something really beautiful on, you feel something. In so many ways, we’re always playing a form of dress-up ‒ it’s just a grown-up, much cheaper version of it. It’s nice to be able to be whoever you want to be.
~Jason Wu

I want to be the best version of myself ‒ intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
~Gabrielle Anwar

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
~Renzo Piano

*IT My version of ‘Georgia‘ became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.
~Ray Charles

My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It’s like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.
~Gerard Way

I grew up in North Carolina, and they have a soft drink called Sun Drop. I love the diet version of it. It’s the greatest thing on the face of the earth. I always have it in my fridge ‒ bus fridge and home fridge.
~Eric Church

I’ve been to the Bahamas. It’s a beautiful country with truly excellent people. When I took a cruise that docked for a couple hours in Nassau, it mostly reminded me of a giant version of my grandmother’s neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama… but with better accents.
~W Kamau Bell

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
~Patrick White

If I speak my version of Spanish in Spain, they laugh. Same with Mexico. It’s an alien world to me.
~Cedric Bixler-Zavala (US)

If you were a Colombian, you would have your version of an empanada. If you are an Argentinean, you might find a dough that’s baked and has a butter sheen on it. And then in Ecuador, you’ll find more crispy-fried empanadas. So, yeah, every culture has their own version of empanadas.
~Jose Garces

Say ‘Toronto’ or ‘Ontario,’ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.
~Christopher Hitchens

Franschhoek ‒ French Corner ‒ is a place which serves South Africans as a kind of sophisticated fantasy, an alternative version of what life could be. The small town is enclosed by wild mountains, at this time of year blue and dusty green.
~Justin Cartwright

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.
~Neill Blomkamp

I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made ‘Spirited Away‘ and ‘Castle in the Sky.’ They’re like the Japanese version of Disney ‒ but without all the schmaltz.
~Jamie Hewlett

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
~Georg Brandes

The difference between the American version of ‘Live Aid‘ and the British one – in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
~Phil Collins

In L.A., a lot of comics live here, but we don’t get to spend that much time together because we’ve got to drive 45 minutes home, or do another set. So in San Francisco we can hang out, go for dinner ‒ the community aspect of it is really lovely, as well as seeing people’s shows that you don’t normally get to see a longer version of.
~Maria Bamford

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.
~Joe Simon

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Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: ‘I’m a good person. Isn’t it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?’
~Peter York

New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I’d shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle ‒ it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
~Vera Wang

Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as ‘cool,’ ‘not cool,’ ‘jock,’ ‘bombshell,’ ‘quirky’… it’s like a caste system. You’re either in, or you’re out.
~Zoe Kravitz

If you write a lovely story about India, you’re criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you’re seen as portraying it in a negative light ‒ it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.
~Kiran Desai

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn’t really a liar after all. He simply can’t control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.
~Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child’s version of it cannot be the same as an old person’s.
~Deepak Chopra

Once you have done with school, you realise that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.
~Kristen Stewart

I remember how much ‒ when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of ‘Peter Pan.’ I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.
~Maurice Sendak

When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of ‘War Of The Worlds,’ ‘Them,’ and ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers.’ Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.
~David Gerrold (Star Trek)

Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don’t know why. You’ve got to do something a little bit immature. I’m surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
~Nathan Fielder (comedian)

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My face hasn’t matured as I’ve grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.
~Jasmine Guinness (designer)

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
~Walt Mossberg

I can say the one good thing is for every year where I grow up, I am kinder to myself, and I would say to the younger version of me, ‘I love my body, and I have learnt to stop looking in the mirror at the things I want to change.’
~Alicia Vikander

I don’t have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else’s or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
~Kate Winslet

I’m accepting I’m not living that younger, dreamed version of myself in the big city.
~Paula Cole

Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.
~Carrie Latet

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
~William Greider

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Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.
~Ginnifer Goodwin

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I’m going to do.
~Jamie Lee Curtis

Claude Debussy’s ‘Children’s Corner‘ is a suite with six movements just for piano. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Alfred Cartot’s versions are amazing, but my favorite is Menininha Lobo’s. Her version was done when she was an old lady and you can hear it.
~Jon Batiste

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@Writers Platform

When I’m going to see a comedian, I don’t want to see them hold back, and when I’m reading a book, I don’t want to hear an abridged version.
~Kathy Griffin

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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
~Laura Hillenbrand

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
~Anne McCaffrey

The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I’d ever submitted to New York editors.
~Edmund White

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I’m floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I’m usually buying my books in at least two formats.
~Atul Gawande

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My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don’t know them.
~Tom Perrotta

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you’re supposed to hiss at, or there’s a sort of indie-style version… When it’s done well, it’s brilliant, it’s ‘Blue Velvet.’
~Greg Mottola

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
~Simon Beaufoy

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I wrote a play once called ‘Lobby Hero,’ which I thought turned out very well, but there’s no final version of it. I published the one we produced, but there are seven other versions with different variations sitting in my desk at home.
~Kenneth Lonergan

I feel like writing a book there’s always a version in your head that’s an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
~Karen Thompson Walker

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Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. ‘To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,’ is Richard Holmes’s version.
~Stacy Schiff

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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
~Larry David

I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
~Sue Monk Kidd

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I’m creating a form of fiction.
~Isabel Allende

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One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I’m thinking about an audience, it’s usually a younger version of myself.
~Matt Groening

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In 2008, while the film version of my book ‘Choke‘ was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother ‒ the plot of Choke ‒ while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.
~Chuck Palahniuk

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it’s narcissistic and pointless.
~Hari Kunzru

There are versions of truth in every color of the wind. With keen curiosity and an acid bath of doubt, you have things to teach yourself you will never learn until you sit down to write.
~author unknown

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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
~Carlton Cuse

The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it’s no longer the abstract ideal version; it’s an event.
~Tom Stoppard

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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
~Penelope Lively

It’s actually pretty complex, because there’s two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider’s poisoned version of what took place.
~Gabriel Byrne

I write speculative fiction, and in my view, speculative fiction is really just a very intense version of the work of literature in general.
~Ken Liu

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I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger’s meets Tourettes meets prose.
~Jonathan Ames

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
~Salman Rushdie

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Prewritten Prompt: version

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Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.
~Carroll Quigley

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
~Maajid Nawaz

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.
~John Cornyn

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
~Lionel Blue

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
~Rob Bell

I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
~Barbara Walters

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.
~Dalai Lama

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For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
~John Ortberg

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Scientology delivers what it promises under the guise of tearing away falsity, neuroses, psychoses. It creates a brainwashed, robotic version of you. It’s a ‘Matrix‘ of you, so you’re communicating with people all the time using Scientology.
~Jason Beghe

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
~Noah Feldman

Jerry Springer‘ is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
~Hal Sparks

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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
~Ian Caldwell

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
~Lafcadio Hearn

I’m now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I’m eternally grateful for.
~Penelope Lively

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I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
~Isaac Asimov

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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
~E Stanley Jones

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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism.
~Marilyn Manson

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don’t think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.
~Tony Blair

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God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.
~Bono

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
~Billy Sunday

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
~George Bernard Shaw

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside ‒ like God, for example.
~Phillip E Johnson

I read Freud’s Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
~Stanislav Grof

The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
~Bruce Lipton

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There are many of us thinking of one version of parallel universe theory or another. If it’s all a lot of nonsense, then it’s a lot of wasted effort going into this far-out idea. But if this idea is correct, it is a fantastic upheaval in our understanding.
~Brian Greene

You almost can’t avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.
~Brian Greene

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People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.
~Richard Stallman

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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
~Philip Emeagwali (computer scientist)

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
~Bill Gates

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Carl [Sagan] took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
~Ann Druyan

It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that… look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
~Burt Rutan

We’re promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we’re not including what a lot of boys like.
~Jon Scieszka

I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.
~Miranda Kerr

One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read ‘Matilda.’ I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class ‒ cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
~Randa Abdel-Fattah

It’s such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
~Danica McKellar

I spend so much time with the brightest and most talented and well-rounded people. I’ve had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It’s like a better version of a class. Even though I’m not sitting at a desk and in school, I’m still learning all the time.
~Hayden Panettiere

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§ The Exercise:

motion

tension: transition from peace
torsion: physical twist of fate
portion: partial to the whole
nation: danger of dissolution
notion: searching for solution
position: skewed derivation
vision: version without divisions
edition: narrative progression
the end: history’s abbreviation
creation: where it all begins
again

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auto immune

jealous of jalopies
jaunty and flaunted
scare up adventure
climb mountains in jeeps
sleek formula 3s
bull market mercedes
backseat altar for virgins
vehicular versions
life in the fast lane
plays it for keeps

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profun ditty

yes we loved and now i’ve lost
my country first but at what cost
toils for victory spoils of history
but version rhymes with virgin
only once

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evidence

deep red wine
dark red blood
sunset stains
various versions
past life remains

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best guess

getting from here to there
destiny, decisions or chance
or combination of versions
the question was what, again?
definition of destination

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escape

built up scars
walled up wars
containing famine
constraining no one
scattered families
bits of someone
torn parts of person
compost pile
worth mass disposal
bitter memories
miss guided morals
prompt some to die
where hope can’t try
to hold life hostage

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vis-avis

tourist with a passport
itinerant
baring ignorance in passing

resident alien
inhabitant
bearing curiosity as license

visitors, different versions
non-native country
or other•wise

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5s n 7s

rosy horizons
sunrise or sunset
versions of exit
serving as entry
circle back again

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.
~Molly Bloom

I’ve been broke and sad, rich and sad, broke and happy, rich and happy, and I’ll take the rich version over the broke version all day long.
~Jen Sincero

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I’m the basketball version of a gravedigger.
~Dennis Rodman

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories ‒ and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
~Alice Munro

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See, the ‘On the Road‘ that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody ‒ ‘You must live life this way’ ‒ and these guys were bored.
~Garrett Hedlund

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That’s why there’s no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
~Camilla Lackberg

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The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, ‘I think therefore I am.’ But I cannot say, ‘You think therefore you are,’ because you are within my perceptual bubble.
~Henry Markram

There’s always going to be a separate version of you that people will create, and you have no control over it.
~Rebecca Hall

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Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art’s version of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good.
~Jerry Saltz

I’m looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I will play everybody.
~David Bowie

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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
~Walter Isaacson

I’ve come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
~Don DeLillo

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte.

The story of Levi Strauss and the invention of blue jeans is mostly legend with threads of truth, which my version stretches to near popping.
~Tony Johnston

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Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
~Terry Gross

If I can get a sanitized version of reality, I’ll take it.
~Darrell Hammond

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My goal is to not fit in. My worst nightmare is being the baby version of another artist.
~Daniel Caesar

I’m not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
~FKA twigs

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The Olio’s Quote Harvest
https://bqotd.com, https://brainyquote.com, https://wisesayings.com

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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com, https://silviatrujillo.com

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The Salmagundi Video Harvest
https://venmo.com, https://vevo.com, https://vimeo.com, https://youtube.com

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