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"Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve." »Joan Borysenko
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"There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." »Robert Lynd
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"In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right." »Ellen Goodman
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril." »Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it." »Woody Allen
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"I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye." »Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
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"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled to concentrate to accept conflict and tension to be born everyday to feel a sense of self." »Erich Fromm
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"The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung." »Prof. F. A. P. Aveling
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"The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman
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"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." »Michael Caine
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"Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." »Randolph Bourne
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"Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery." »Paul Valery
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"Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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""Time is the measurement of the rotation of the Earths surface around the Circumference of it's Axis"" »Tom Zegan
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"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." »Jacob Braude
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth." »Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Origins Of The Sublime And Beatiful.
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"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth." »Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Like the old motto of a famous Sunday paper, 'All human life was there' in the stately circle of the Mountbatten-Windsors, as the family coped in semipublic with those everlasting elements of human interest-sickness, scandal, family tension and divorce." »John Pearson
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"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."" »Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
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"Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness. The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself." »Franz Xavier Kroetz
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"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance." »Graham Clarke
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"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." »Aldous Huxley
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"A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing." »Magha
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"A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle" »Henry David Thoreau
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"When we look from the bottom of a well, sky shines more beautifully than from the surface! Heaven is a Double-Heaven in the Hell!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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