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Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

~Alberto Giacometti

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For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house, it was to salvage photos.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Access Anyone Back Bosnia Burning Displaced Holes House Life Objects People Photos Reconstruct Running Story Then Who Why You Your

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I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Comfortable Different Displaced Eyes Fresh Get Light Mother Need New New Eyes Routine Saw See Then Things You

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Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.

~Arancha Gonzalez

Topics: About Accompany Adequately Adjust Being Benefits Business Created Did Displaced Distribution Domestic Elites Equip Failed Frankly Good New New Opportunities Opportunities Policies Policy Share Speak Trade Unequal Workers

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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

~Bill Gross

Topics: Accountants Being Displaced Enough Era Even Higher Jobs Machines May Medical Modern Myth Paying Political Replacement Software Technicians Those Value-Added Without Write Writers

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We are called to care for those sickened by pollution, house those displaced by environmental calamities, and heal the spirits of those - especially our youth - who are disheartened by a world where human survival is now in question.

~Blase J. Cupich

Topics: Calamities Care Displaced Environmental Heal House Human Now Our Pollution Question Spirits Survival Those Where Who World Youth

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String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

~Brian Greene

Topics: Big Bread Cosmic Dimension Displaced Extra Loaf Other Our Ours Slice Some Space String String Theory Theory Universe Which Would

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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

~Charlie Sykes

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Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Alone Am Bit Countries Displaced Economies Emerging Feel Find Group Many Nomad Part People Sense Sometimes Sort Themselves Think Very Whole I Think I Am I Feel

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I'm reaching for emotion and drama, the drama of the everyday: what happens when you don't have shelter, food, and clothing. There are some stakes. If you're displaced or evicted, there's a suspense: How will you solve that?

~Debra Granik

Topics: Clothing Displaced Drama Emotion Everyday Food Happens How Reaching Shelter Solve Some Stakes Suspense Will You

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