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“I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.”

Writing I Can Book Character Strong Imagine Demand Female Setting Settings Writing A Book Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:William Gibson

“Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.”

Persons Ego Setting Settings

Author:Martin Buber

“Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.”

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.”

Sun Setting Settings Rising Pompey

Book:The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume II: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.”

Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice

“Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be reminded of those men and women, Brave, setting up signals across vast distances, considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.”

Men Way Would Be Values Paper Men And Women Distance Brave Setting Settings Pens Considering Unseen Signals Unborn Nameless

Book:The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser

Source: The collected poems of Muriel Rukeyser

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.”

Needs Giving Feels Humans Wells Accepting Marriage Expression Equal Ideals Instinct Intellect Partners Setting Settings Human Relations Human Relationships Happy Marriage

Book:The Integrity of the Personality

Source: The Integrity of the Personality

“We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.”

Needs Mind Hands Prayer Raises Setting Settings Wander Irrelevant Raise Up Wandering Thoughts

Author:John Calvin

“Canada is one of the few places left where the small decencies are observed. If, as a young man, I was scornful of the country because we always seemed so far behind style-setting New York, I now thank God for the cultural lag. Ours, after all, is the good neighbourhood. A society well worth preserving.”

Ifs Men Wells Country Young Left Behinds Style New York Setting Settings Young Man Canada Thank God Decency Lag Neighbourhoods

Author:Mordecai Richler

“The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.”

Thinking Want Bigs Kids Grows Growing Up Limits Ambition Setting Settings Ministers Prime Prime Minister Think Big

Author:Mordecai Richler

“The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.”

Want Needs Feels Doe Self Complexes Musical Setting Settings Composer Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Author:James Fenton

“Stun settings are for people who can't commit.”

People Setting Commit Settings

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Whenever I'm hired to do appearances I always get to take one or two friends with me. I'm away so much I'd get lonely if I didn't. My BBF would get to go jet-setting with me to amazing parties too, like the ones on P Diddy's yacht. Apart from me, he throws the best parties they're so A-list.”

Ifs Two Party Lonely Appearance Lists Setting Settings Jet Yacht Two Friends Best Party

Author:Paris Hilton

“Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.”

People Want Stage Policy Movement Unions Setting Settings Administration Borders Canada Mexico Nafta

Author:Jerome Corsi

“Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”

Firsts Might Eye Existence Land Childhood Adventure Setting Settings Instant Perpetual Truest

Book:Maps and Legends

Source: Maps and Legends

“The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality that the audience can escape into and have fun, and in a way make it more real than it actually is.”

Thinking Way Real Reality Film Fun Audience Style Particular Periods Setting Settings Having Fun

Author:Lionel Wigram

“I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.”

People Thinking Courses Vision Setting Settings Describing

Author:Barack Obama

“I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.”

People Thinking World Real Differences Setting Settings Live By

Author:Richard Branson

“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”

Want Two Country Home Might Night Speak Bits Hours Chance My Own Sleep Setting Settings Get Back Going To Sleep Back Home Mississippi Free Country

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists.”

“Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.”

People Want Technology Economy Information Expectations Paid Foolish Setting Settings Digital Online Sensibility Dominant Scenarios Utopian Groove Digital Technology

Book:Who Owns the Future?

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.”

Years Has Beens Made Country States Certain Millions Progress Example Jew Trials Setting Settings Propaganda Palestine Martyr Anti Semitism Foreign Countries Extermination Madagascar

Author:Julius Streicher

“The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play.”

“The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.”

Way Nations Fashion Majors Constant Notes Mood Setting Settings Minors Chords Assertive Foreboding

Book:Games with Shadows

Source: Games with Shadows

“Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.”

Persons Important Parent Goal Growing Essence Praise Rewards Setting Pursue Settings Setting Goals Better Person Essence Of Life

Author:Bob Proctor

“I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.”

Giving Firsts Persons Country Character Sports Term Economy Truth Is Shapes Regard Priorities Setting Settings Indebted Prominence Tanzania

Author:Benjamin Mkapa

“You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”

Sun Setting Settings Menace Stop War

Author:Shmi Skywalker

“When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.”

People Ifs Body Lines Rooms Groups Influence Streets Produce Limits Impression Setting Settings Midst Portraits Living Room Totality

Author:Medardo Rosso

“There are tides of justice surging to the unknown shores of right; Stars of truth that seek a setting in the dark, untutored night.”

Truth Night Stars Justice Dark Setting Settings Shore Tides

Author:Arthur Lynch

“The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Writing May Soul Dream Spirit Path Generations Magic Lucky Unique Inspired Library Driven Clever Setting Settings Wander Your Soul Volume Downloads Osmosis

Author:Arthur Plotnik

“The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.”

Knows Men May Soul Dream Running Lying Stars Half Beauty Worship Delight Setting Settings Wander Streams Altars Beam Ripple Gleam Afar Wands

Book:The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

Source: The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...

“Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained.”

Ifs Would Be Political Turns Economic Essentials Aspect Fundamentals Setting Settings Employment Advent Neoliberalism

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.”

World Writing Book Couple Fit Areas Focused Mood Setting Settings Narrative Atmosphere Constructs Writing A Book

Author:China Mieville

“Subjective reason ... is inclined to abandon the fight with religion by setting up two different brackets, one for science and philosophy, and one for institutionalized mythology, thus recognizing both of them. For the philosophy of objective reason there is no such way out. Since it hold to the concept of objective truth, it must take a positive or a negative stand with regard to the content of established religion.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”

Men Mind Patterns Setting Settings Forgiven

Author:Jimmy Savile

“If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.”

Ifs Play Stage Setting Settings

Author:Morris Lapidus

“There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark”

Stills Hate Natural Dark Views Setting Settings Cynical Default

Author:Alexei Sayle

“The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!”

Strong Christ Prayer Cry Example Tears Praying Offers Setting Settings Dry Wet Fervent Revival Prayer Supplication Importunate Fervent Prayer

Book:An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...

Source: An Exposition of the Old and New Testament ...

“The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”

Men Giving Humans Heart Eye Joy Lying Race Watches Sun Tears Flower Rounds Clouds Blow Setting Settings Thanks Mortality Tenderness Sober Human Heart Palms Too Deep

Author:William Wordsworth

“Not every child learns for the same purpose, not every child thrives in the same settings and schools. Limiting a child to just one opportunity does nothing more than limit that child's future. The way forward must involve more public charter schools, which offer parents a tuition-free alternative to their neighborhood school.”

Way Children Doe School Purpose Opportunity Parent Education Offers Limits Setting Settings Alternatives Just One Thrive Neighborhood Charter Tuition Way Forward Charter Schools

Author:Rick Perry

“The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.”

“The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.”

Ifs Men Book Hands Desire Language Devil Affair Worthy Setting Settings

Book:Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: Hound of the Baskervilles

“Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.”

Humans May Doe Two Ideas Sports Half Talent Football Depends Setting Settings Fearless Soccer Analysis Avoiding Other Half One Half Coexist Flair

Author:Edward Smith

“The savage, rocky shores of Christmas Island, 200 miles south of Java, in the Indian Ocean. It's November, the moon is in its third quarter, and the sun is just setting. In a few hours from now, on this very shore, a thousand million lives will be launched.”

Hours Millions Sun Television Thousand Moon Ocean Thirds South Miles Setting Settings Indian Islands Shore Quarters Savages November Java

Author:David Attenborough

“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.”

Mind Kind Film Given Century Periods Horror Hollywood Distance Setting Settings Typical 19th Century 1930s

Author:Andrew Tudor

“... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally Godless, born in the same atmosphere of utter disregard for the foundational virtues of humility and charity. This hostile twin brother of Capitalism was destined to be called Communism, and is today setting out to murder its elder.”

“The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.”

Ifs Two Past Politics Given Economy Trouble Economic Policy Setting Rational Settings Liberalism Reserves Federal Reserve Economic Policy Steering

Author:Wright Patman

“Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.”

“We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.”

World Literature Fronts Tables University Iraq Setting Cards Settings Islamic March Als Recruit Arab World

Author:Chris Matthews

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