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"Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed." »Ray Simard
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"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." »Don Wood
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"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed." »Frank Deford
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"fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it." »Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
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"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement." »Thomas Wolfe
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"At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them." »Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place." »Horace
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"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." »Robert Frost
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." »Dag Hammarskjold
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"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel." »George Santayana
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"I fixed my eyes on the larget cloud, as if, when it passed out of my sight, I might have the good luck to pass with it." »Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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"I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible." »William James
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"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit." »Abbie Hoffman
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"The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone." »Dante
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"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man." »Erich Fromm
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"With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see." »Ronald Reagan
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"The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment." »Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee
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"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink." »F. H. Bradley
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"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." »Chuck Palahniuk
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." »Henry Bessemer
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"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life." »William Faulkner
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"The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory." »Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
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"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened." »Douglas Couplan
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"According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is" »Alan B. Watts
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"Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way." »John Stuart Mill
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"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing." »Andrea Canaan
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
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