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“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.”

Wells Seems Sea Missing Danger Example Mines Oil Agency Coal Trading Strengthening Derivatives Deep Sea

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.”

Ifs Seems Chance Week Going Away Chances Are Pertussis

Author:Paul A. Offit

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better , if less "showily." Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences.”

“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

“We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.”

People World Inspirational War Sometimes Facts Seems Suffering Dies Wonderful This World Buddhism Oppression Curious Alarms Famine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.”

People World Inspirational Looks Reason Shows Seems Watches Focus This World Particular Inspirational Life Tvs Buddhism Believer Newspapers Tv Shows

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.”

Seems Jobs Nations Cities Economic Universal Strategy Pursuit Recovery Administration Description Planners Economic Recovery

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“There is a certain degree of pain to be experienced in the search for self-knowledge, as there is a certain amount of joy. You just do it because you find yourself doing it. There just doesn't seem to be much else worthwhile.”

Inspirational Self Seems Pain Joy Certain Buddhism Amount Degrees Finding Yourself Worthwhile Self Knowledge Just Do It

Author:Frederick Lenz

“These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in as you progress are beautiful beyond description.”

Inspirational Mind May Self States Seems Beautiful Easy Simple Progress Buddhism Description State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness.”

Inspirational Dream Seems Meditation Buddhism Endless Be You

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.”

Different Self Seems Form Enjoy Meditation Buddhism Helpful Progressive

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything that you see before you with your physical eyes is an illusion. In other words, you are not seeing correctly. Life is made up of light. But if you are only looking through the senses, it seems solid and physical.”

Ifs Made Light Seems Eye Life Is Seeing Illusion Senses Hinduism

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.”

People Years Seems Death Hinduism Aversion Himalayas

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.”

World Real Self Dream Seems Night Gone Conditions Wake Up Endless Hinduism Manifold Solidity Dreaming At Night

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'd say art is with you. All around you. I'd say when there doesn't seem to be anyone else, there is art. I'd say you can love art how you wish to be loved. And I'd say art is a lifeline to the rest of us - we are out here. You are not alone. There is nothing about you that scares us. There is nothing unlovable about you, either.”

Writing Art Seems Wish Art Is Scare Not Alone Lifelines Unlovable

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!”

People Long Ideas Ends Seems Running Long Time Tired Ghost Running Away Frightening New Ideas

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.”

People Ifs Seems Church Normal Testament New Testament Abnormal

Author:Vance Havner

“I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.”

Shows Seems Negative Fortunate Contentment Less Fortunate

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.”

Source: Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask

“See beauty in those unexpected places. (she asked herself how people could let Bach be background noise.) See the opportunity in what looks like inconvenience. (she steered clear of the traffic jam and went to the bakery she's been meaning to stop at.) She embraces the undeclared possibility in what seems like just another ordinary day. (her friend is scheduled for cancer surgery and suddenly everything around her seems so very precious.)”

“Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.”

Kind Seems Expression Gratitude Appreciate Appreciation All Kinds Cosmic Thankfulness Invitations Expressing Gratitude

Book:Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

Source: Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life

“In all things and in all ways, choice impacts virtually every element of our life. It bears repeating that even those things which seem out of reach of our choice are governed by how we choose to perceive them.”

Way Seems Choices Taken Our Lives Bears Elements All Things Impact Granted Perceive Our Choices Transcendentalism

Book:Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

Source: Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad

“I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.”

Men Seems Funny Strong Fairs Independent Deny Pigs Jerk

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.”

Ifs Way Seems Winning Wise Imagine Genius Not Sure Wizards Funny But True Gallant Swordsman

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Man is flawed; universe is imperfect; the functioning of the cosmos is defective! Everything seems to be severely punished by the imperfection! May be the real challenge of men is to correct all these flaws! It is possible to think that God is an evolutionary perfectionist! He creates things as unimportant and faulty; then let them all alone and fateless to evolve to perfection!”

Thinking Men May Real Seems Universe Challenges Perfection Evolve Cosmos Flaws Imperfection Imperfect Flawed Unimportant Perfectionist All Alone Defective

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.”

Source: Killosophy

“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.”

“I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.”

I Can Seems Waiting Community Cities New York Activity Summer Yoga Available Parks Concerts New Yorkers Screening Central Park Smile More

Author:Kara Lindsay

“Many of us in Congress have been calling on the Administration to articulate a bold mission for NASA. It seems that the President is answering that call. I wholeheartedly support his vision for going back to the moon, and from there to worlds beyond.”

World Has Beens Seems President Vision Support Calling Moon Congress Missions Administration Nasa Wholeheartedly

Author:Sheila Jackson Lee

“Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.”

Helping Seems Jobs Difficult Struggle Economy Creating Method Senate Colleagues Creating Jobs

Author:Al Franken

“In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening.”

Stills States Dream Seems Eye Sleep Happenings Reflection Awake Exception Our Dreams Disturbing

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.”

People Different Seems Asks Bits Raises Ask Me Los Angeles Traffic Midwest

Author:Steven Levitan

“Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.”

People Ifs Way Want May Ideas Shows Seems Strong Numbers Watches Week Modern Right Now Currents Producers Alternatives No Idea Platforms Viewers Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.”

Want Character Seems Turns Interesting Modern Fit Drama Lucky Bigger Budgets Want U Cables Modern Family

Author:Steven Levitan

“I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.”

Book Seems Sports Books And Movies Bostonians

Author:William Landay

“There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?”

People Seems Might Black White Corporations Good People Black And White Bad People

Author:James Murdoch

“Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.”

Writing Wells Seems Language

Author:Lisel Mueller

“Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.”

People Seems Products Genuine Utility Apps Handy

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.”

Seems Culture Levels Fascinated Storyteller Leading Me Grassroots Folktales

Author:Robin McKinley

“Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.”

People World Trying Seems Film Fit Bewildered

Author:Roger Michell

“Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!”

Seems Likes Being Single

Author:Shay Mitchell

“We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.”

Knows Doe Sometimes Seems Plans Happened Happenings Okay Remarkable

Author:Andie MacDowell

“So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.”

Way Seems Fats

Author:Camryn Manheim

“All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.”

Wells Play Seems Guy Nice Nice Guy

Author:Claire McCaskill

“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.”

People Trying Kind Seems Lost Common Gone Study Focus One Thing Presses Edges Tabloids Bad Press

Author:Cory Monteith

“But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.”

Seems Missing Portfolios

Author:Craig McCracken

“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.”

Thinking Children Important Seems Sports Parent Succeed Harder Our Children Your Children End Times Spend Time

Author:Dan Marino

“The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.”

Thinking Way Should Seems Kids Today Stars Fame

Author:Don McLean

“I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.”

Way Made Different Seems Left Company Records Grew Grew Up Albums Stores Relate Different Ways Music Business Record Companies

Author:Don McLean

“I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.”

Way Mind Doe Different Seems Hours Brain Function Be Good Unexpected Frequency Daylight Epiphany Nighttime Time Of Day

Author:Erin Morgenstern

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