“ Life is like and ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. ”
- Sharon Salzberg- Copy
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“ Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance. ”
- Louis Untermeyer- Copy
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“ To try to hit public taste in the drama is like trying to hit the bull's-eye of a rapidly shifting target on a very foggy day. ”
- George P. Baker- Copy
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“ Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. ”
- Gloria Anzaldúa- Copy
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“ You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you. ”
- Leontyne Price- Copy
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“ Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. ”
- Titus Livius- Copy
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“ A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does. ”
- Barbara De Angelis- Copy
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“ Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. ”
- Sharon Salzberg- Copy
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“ Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.". ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
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“ The re-enchantment of our everyday lives then becomes a matter of seriously shifting our priorities, developing a sense of the sacredness in the particulars of ordinary life, and making them part of our personal lives more by imagination than by brute force. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. ”
- Camille Paglia- Copy
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“ Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
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“ You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words… ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
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“ Principle, particularly moral principle, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. ”
- Edward R. Lyman- Copy
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“ Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred — it is the amphetamine of its believers. ”
- Arianna Stassinopoulos- Copy
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“ Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as "spectacles" to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions… ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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