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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

~Adam Ferguson

Topics: Any Artist Attention Confine Finds Greater Grow Hands He His More Part Particular Perfect Productions Quantities Work

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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

~Alastair Campbell

Topics: Arenas Boo Confine Fan Football Good Love Much Next Should Sport Sports I Love

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My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of the multi-dimensional imaginal realms that pull us toward consciousness evolution.

~Alex Grey

Topics: Always Art Been Confine Consciousness Evolution Include Outer Pull Rather Response Subject Than Toward Us Visions Worlds

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If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

~Alice Cooper

Topics: Anything Confine Happen Just Like Make Restrict Spontaneous Thing Want Whatever Whole You

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I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

~Aretha Franklin

Topics: Confine Just Like Mind Music Myself Particularly Songs Words Write Writing

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We humans, just like the animals in our zoos, were born into bodies whose workings are both mechanistically predictable and unfathomably complex. Put in lots of sugar, and we'll get fat and sick. Confine our movement, and we'll get weak and antsy. Give us some manageable problems with which to grapple, and we'll cheer up.

~Ben Dolnick

Topics: Animals Bodies Born Both Cheer Complex Confine Fat Get Give Humans Just Like Lots Manageable Movement Our Predictable Problems Put Sick Some Sugar Up Us Weak Were Which Whose Workings Zoo

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Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

~Ben Miles

Topics: Capital Confine Country Economists Explaining Factors Grows How Key Labor Largely Productivity Themselves Three Why

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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.

~Bernard Sumner

Topics: About Absolutely After Born Cerebral Condition Confine Days Entire Entire Life Fine Had Having Her Laura Left Life Mother She Started Three Wheelchair Would

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Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Actions Attention Because Brain Changing Confine Create Dedicated Detail Easily Ever Extremely Fact Free In Fact Intuitive Intuitively Leaving Many Mind Moment Options Part Respond Rest Sensitivity Software Texture Too Tools Used Work

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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Believe Burdened Bureaucracy Confine Down Excess Government Itself Possible Public Realm Reason Should Stripped Within I Believe I Believe That

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