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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Carl Sagan
Fierce
Darkness
Black
Light
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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
Henri Nouwen
Resistance
Tightly
Desire
Betrays
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.
Henri Nouwen
Intimacy
Beign
Distance
Horizon
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I invented the cordless extension cord.
Steven Wright
Cord
Extension
Invented
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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
Hugo Chavez
Country
Focus
Forget
Governing
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The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
Gene Simmons
Clothing
Colors
Express
Extension
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
A. R. Ammons
Becoming
Each
Extensions
Laws
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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
Socrates
Because
Everywhere
Extension
Fear
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Elon Musk
Active
Car
Extension
Natural
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Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
About
Movies
Music
Release
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Octavio Paz
Alert
Awaits
Choose
Close
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
Harold Bloom
Abandon
Academy
Alleviate
Classes
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When you give attention to worries, they give you tension. When you give attention to your Creator, He gives you solutions.
Reno Omokri
Attention
Worries
Tension
Creator
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Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
Vladimir Putin
Major
Common
Point
Tension
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini
Alone
Brings
Courage
Energies
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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
Eminem
Honestly
Love
Be
Remembered
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Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing well.
Eminem
Honestly
Love
Be
Remembered
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.
Isaiah Berlin
Chains
Else
Enslavement
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Earl Nightingale
Creativity
Enthusiasm
Extension
Natural
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It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.
Nhat Hanh
Art
Chronic
Clear
Creative
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
Ingmar Bergman
Always
Desires
Dreams
Emotions
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
J. K. Rowling
Best
Class
Classes
Find
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer
About
Act
Bad
Creative
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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns
Longevity
Avoiding worry
Stress
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
Richard Powers
Addressing
Anxieties
Build
Capable
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James Taylor
Huge
Like
Music
Release
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What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
David Duchovny
Arrogance
Mad
Makes
Pretension
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Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.
Howard Thurman
The tension
Stresses
Beauty
Joy
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My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment.
Jay Z
My brands
Extension
Emotional attachment
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My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
Jay Z
Related to
Person
Clothes
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Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.
Mark Shuttleworth
Computer
Device
An extension
Your mind
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Music ministers; Please don’t let your music be an extension of colonial rule, find your sound and keep it.
Dunsin Oyekan
Music ministers
An extension
Colonial rule
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Boko Haram have targeted Christians and Churches specifically because they know it drives forward religious and land tensions already existent in the country. Similarly, they attack mosques and Muslims in order to issue the threat: radicalize, or become targets yourselves.
Garba Shehu
Have targeted Christians
Churches
Drives forward religious
Land tensions
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That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
Aldo Leopold
Land
Community
Basic concept
Ecology
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard
Tension
Yes
No
Can
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus
Power
Treasure
Outweigh
Knowledge
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With the tension that is currently going on all over the world, showing some love will be a great way to go.
Victoria Nkong
The tension
Going on
The world
Showing
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A poem doesn't do everything for you. You are supposed to go on with your thinking. You are supposed to enrich the other person's poem with your extensions, your uniquely personal understandings, thus making the poem serve you.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Poem
Thinking
Person's
Serve
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Man fights with his mind. His hands and his weapons are simply extensions of his will, and one of the fallacies of our era is the notion that equipment is the equivalent of force.
Jeff Cooper
Man
Fights
Mind
Weapons
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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Economics
Hope
Faith
Desire
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Successful people equal High Tension. As lightening is forever due to strike, they will do whatever it takes for them to shine.
Bella Shmurda
High Tension
Successful people
Shine
Forever
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