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The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

~Alvar Aalto

Topics: Best Cells Combinations Committee Connection Encounters Flexible Herself Mainly Millions Nature Never Occurs Possible Result Smallest Units Which World

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Yes, both 'Being Human' and 'Outlander' are known for their loyal fanbases. The beauty of both of those jobs was that the characters were very removed from me. So I've been lucky to get off scot-free, without any strange encounters. The wigs, blood, and strange onscreen faces/voices - they haven't found their way into my day-to-day life. Yet.

~Andrew Gower

Topics: Any Beauty Been Being Being Human Blood Both Characters Day-To-Day Encounters Found Get Human Jobs Known Life Loyal Lucky Me Off Onscreen Strange Those Very Way Were Wigs Without Yes

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I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

~Bob Balaban

Topics: Actually Because Better Close Effects Encounters Expensive Hold More New Some Special Special Effects Than Think Up Were I Think

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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

~Bob Balaban

Topics: Being Close Encounters Exciting Just Loved Spielberg Steven Steven Spielberg Watch Working

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It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

~Bob Keeshan

Topics: Children Consider Encounters Everyday Gentle Good Life More Other People Prepared Requires Strength Them Think I Think

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I've been diving for about 30 years, and I can honestly say that I've had some amazing encounters with sharks, squids, and other whales. But the encounter with the right whales in the Auckland Islands was probably the best thing I've ever done. It was just that amazing.

~Brian Skerry

Topics: About Amazing Been Best Diving Done Encounter Encounters Ever Had Honestly Islands Just Other Right Say Sharks Some Thing Whales Years I Can

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Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.

~Brian Weiss

Topics: Attempt Embrace Encounters Event Experiences Forget Minds Miracle Must Mystical Often Our Power Rational Reality Which

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In a well-functioning democracy, people frequently encounter topics and points of view that they did not specifically select but from which they learn. Those encounters can change minds and, even, the course of lives.

~Cass Sunstein

Topics: Change Course Democracy Did Encounter Encounters Even Frequently Learn Lives Minds People Points Select Specifically Those Topics View Which

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Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

~Chaim Potok

Topics: Chosen Danny Element Encounters Heart His Reading Readings Religious Secular Theory Very Well World

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Avoid Better Danger Encounters He Hurricane Lee Meet Out Sea Shipwreck Shore Stands Storm Than Wait

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