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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

God Eyes Dark Staring
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It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having power to influence, yes. Inherent difference, no

Me Power Being React
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She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.

Life Elude Struggle
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

People Growing Life
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The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Brag Computer Fast Favourite
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Important World Kept Hope
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Around Because Bread Came
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

Civilization Clear Expanding Frontier
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It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

Came Get Going Like
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

America Between Early Jewish
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To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given.

Hudson-taylor-s-spiritual-secret
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

Exquisite Had Like Music
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Advice Dr Father Go
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Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Busier Busy He Man
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

American Bond Come Fine
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

Actual Attributes Demand Dracula
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

About American American American Life
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The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

Voice Love Seemed Call
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She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.

Looked Attitude Suggest Finished
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He reached a poor little cottage that seemed ready to fall, and only remained standing because it could not decide on which side to fall first

Poor Cottage Seemed Ready
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His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Future Suddenly Unrolled
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Seemed Happiness Surprised Butterfly
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Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Little Addicted Moments Welcome
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..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

Husband Wife Breakable Prosperity
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. . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

Seemed Prayed God Joy
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And all the countries seemed the same, That I don't see myself there, And I don't see myself here.

Country Seemed Same See
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

Refused Sacrifices Valuable Peace
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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

Seemed glad Appeared Kitchen Watching her
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When I was born, I was effectively dead. Weird, I know. The doctors couldn't get any reaction from me, so I had to be brought round, and although it seemed like I was okay, there were underlying problems.

Although Any Born Brought
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I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually.

Actor Am Because Chi
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

Acquainted Be The First Became Began
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What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

Became Brother Distinguished Her
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I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.

Really conflicted Always planned The world
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Disquieting loneliness My life No hunger Friends
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It seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not, more important now was for me to love them

Longer important Everyone Loved me
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Knew what Yearn for A life So distant
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Works Imagination Children Time
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

Poetry Emergency Justification
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Wars Generations Ignorant Heart
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If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

Penetrated Subject Contrast Mathematical
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