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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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"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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"Like swift water an active mind never stagnates." »Author Unknown
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"Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"Whoever brings cheerfulness to his work, and is ever active, dashes through the world?s labours." »Tieck
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"No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable." »Marquis de Sade
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"Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy." »Arthur Guiterman
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"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental." »Leopold Stein
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"A man of quick and active wit For drudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags are to draw carts." »Butler
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"The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman
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"We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams." »Les Brown
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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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"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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""Time is the measurement of the rotation of the Earths Surface around the Circumference of it's Axis"" »Tom Zegan
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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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"Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be." »William Shakespeare
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often." »Brian Tracy
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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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"If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble." »Horace Bushnell
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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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