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“Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.”

Thinking May Whole Brain Fine Shapes Function Priorities Affected Motor Ordeals Close To Death

Author:Bill Berry

“Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.”

May Different Reality Remember Doubt Risk Groups Shapes Perception Rewards Perceive Internals Incentives Marketplace Risk And Reward

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”

Ifs May Feelings Artist Views Sky Shapes Mountain Experience Response Paint Finished Canvas Soar Evoke

Author:Lawren Harris

“True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”

Life May Sports Challenges Hero Shapes Superiors Combat Heroic Heroism Being A Hero True Hero

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.”

Thinking Feels Mind May Suffering Pieces Shapes Regard Dare Active Block Flames Iron Feds Statues Marble Rubbish Hammered Anvils

Book:Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

Source: Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses

“Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.”

World May Lines Offers Shapes Mark Patterns Creator Surface Painter Rhythm Proportion Revelations Texture Signatures

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.”

May Has Beens Body Needed Shapes Decided Work Out Your Body Formal Workout Decrease Getting In Shape

Author:Paul Stanley

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know of no sculpture, painting or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of granite cliff and dome, of patina of light on rock and forest, and of the thunder and whispering of the falling, flowing waters. At first the colossal aspect may dominate; then we perceive and respond to the delicate and persuasive complex of nature.”

“This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life?”

People Way Want Believe May Doe Different Facts Form Hate Chance Mines Gay Shapes Gay Marriage

Author:Chris Kluwe

“ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”

Men May Order Given Sound Shapes Crisis Ingenuity

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.”

May Song Shapes Arise Triumph Strain Lamentation

Book:The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.

Source: The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.