“ The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. ”
- C. Northcote Parkinson- Copy
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“ Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all. ”
- Aime Cesaire- Copy
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“ Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. ”
- Timothy Bentley- Copy
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“ If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
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“ Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself. ”
- Philip Larkin- Copy
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“ Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning — much less set strategy for a company or a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves… ”
- Peter Koestenbaum- Copy
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“ Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;raining off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream… ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ”
- Diane Johnson- Copy
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“ The power that an artist can have to move people, I just want to equip myself better with those kind of skills. I see myself as a character actor, not as a leading actor, and in something like Time of Your Life, I'm being asked to strengthen my chops and take some responsibilities… ”
- John Glover- Copy
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“ The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family. ”
- Daniel Bell- Copy
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