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“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.”

Seems Age Christian Desire Artist Culture Christianity Generations Fashion Stupid Late Picks Tradition Oneself Relevant Secular Short Sighted Unchristian

Author:Calvin Seerveld

“This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”

Self Enough Desire Culture Gone Fashion Shapes Contemporary Emphasis

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.”

Political Desire Purpose Individual Fashion Corporations Contribution

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.”

Mind Heart Desire Speak Teach Fashion My Heart Angel Bounds Tongue Heavenly Within You My Thoughts Frail Chaste

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.”

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.”

Past Desire Belief Teaching Fashion Behavior Tricks Behave Reaching Nerves Allowing Definite Reorganization Learned Behavior Reaching Back

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.”

Form Desire Worst Fashion Impress Imprisonment

Book:Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves

Source: Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves

“The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.”

Feels Desire Nature Fashion Changed

Author:Mason Cooley