“ Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined. ”
- Pierre de Coubertin- Copy
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“ The glowing magma emerges like redhot toothpaste from a long, wide crack and then crawls into the Pacific, creating a tall, furious cloud of steam. ”
- Robert Gross- Copy
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“ Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. ”
- Andrew V. Mason- Copy
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“ Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is. ”
- Willard Gaylin- Copy
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“ Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on. ”
- Rollo May- Copy
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“ Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise. ”
- Vangelis- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward! ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
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“ Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. ”
- General Douglas McArthur- Copy
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“ Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ For anything new to emerge there must first be a dream, an imaginative view of what might be. ”
- Robert K. Greenleaf- Copy
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“ I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence. ”
- Shirin Ebadi- Copy
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“ Inside every woman is a potential major philanthropist waiting to emerge. ”
- Joan M. Fisher- Copy
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“ It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another. ”
- Henry de Montherlant- Copy
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“ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces. ”
- Shashi Deshpande- Copy
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“ The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing… ”
- David Mamet- Copy
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“ Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings to become numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their experiences with growth and humanness greater than that achieved through almost any other means. ”
- Elisabeth Kubler Ross- Copy
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“ What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
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“ Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions… ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
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