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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

~Francis Schaeffer

Topics: Absolute Age Allowed Curious Insistence Mark Note Only Our Own Passing Should

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All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

~Francisco Costa

Topics: Also Aware Bad Connection Curious Earth Environment Know Loyal Our People Respectful Stubborn Surroundings Understand Very Want Way Which

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I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

~Frank Crowninshield

Topics: About Aesthetic Africa Anything Because Been Chosen Collected Curious Entirely Everything Feeling Figure Form Historic Interest Never Object Plastic Significance Structure Utility Values

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The crowd intimidates me, its breath suffocates me. I feel paralyzed by its curious look, and the unknown faces make me dumb.

~Frederic Chopin

Topics: Breath Crowd Curious Dumb Faces Feel Look Make Me Paralyzed Unknown I Feel

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It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

~Frederick Soddy

Topics: Back Beliefs Curious Example Far For Example However Legend Most Oldest Origin Past Penetrate Philosopher Real Records Reflect Remarkable Source Stone Trace Universal Which

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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

~Friedrich August Von Hayek

Topics: About Curious Demonstrate Design Economics How Imagine Know Little Men Really Task

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I'm interested in people. I'm curious about people, and of course we're curious about people whose work we respond to. So I'm not saying that I don't understand fascination with other people. But as it's dealt with in this American, modern-day culture, I find it not just boring but actually sort of destructive, really.

~Gaby Hoffmann

Topics: About Actually American Boring Course Culture Curious Dealt Destructive Fascination Find Interested Just Modern-Day Other People Really Respond Saying Sort Understand Whose Work

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Going to school is not really education. It's really who's in front of the classrooms and who's endearing themselves to the kids and who's making the kids want to learn and who's inspiring them to be curious about any topic in the world.

~Gary Cohn

Topics: About Any Classrooms Curious Education Endearing Front Going Inspiring Kids Learn Making Really School Them Themselves Topic Want World

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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

~Gavin Bryars

Topics: Curious Developed However Initially Interested Musician Piece Project Radio Sculptor Should Sound Which Working

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

~George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Any Beginning Beyond Boats Broken Burned Curious End Feeling Goes Happiness Heart Matters More Nothing Nothing Matters Our Pain Peace Powers Sensation Sort Your

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