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“Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it.”

May Matter Ocean Survival Curiosity Exploration Hinges Ocean Exploration

Author:John F. Kennedy

“For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.”

Men Trying Philosophy Moving Liberty Destiny Discipline Technique Free Man Hinges Tiresome Restraining

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned.”

Stuff Information Spring Tiny Data Tape Sheets Glowing Magnet Wondrous Hinges Zippers

Book:How the Mind Works

Source: How the Mind Works

“I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.”

Want Kind Made Book Used Students Normal Wave Metals Hinges Faux Briefcases

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.”

Source: The Call of the Elijah Revolution

“Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.”

Made Stills Universe Wish Noise Despite Fallen Melody Fabric Redeemed Hinges

Author:Geoffrey Wood

“Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.”

Should Culture Technology Products Corporate Flexible Innovative New Technology Hinges Corporate Culture New Business New Products Samsung

Author:Lee Kun-hee

“A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.”

World Kind Stories Certain Novel Building Reader Short Story Closure Hinges

Author:Dan Chaon

“The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is confirmed, ratified, sealed, and made enduringly good by virtue of Christ's rising from death. Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.”

Made Christ Sin Virtue Crosses Rising Resurrection Justification Risen Atonement Hinges Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Paul F. M. Zahl

“We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.”

Sometimes Age Presses Obsessed Acceptable Presentation Hinges

Author:Douglas Booth

“When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.”

People Kind Ends Political Used Social Call Me Confusing Hinges

Author:Janis Ian