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There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Approach Combine Commissioned Composer Composers Creator Enough Forces Like Lot Lots Lots And Lots Musician Need Performer Pieces Player See Sound Still Think Those Would I Think I See

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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

~Fanny Howe

Topics: About American Between Big Big Part Childhood Children Choosing Cultural Economics Far Forces Generation Inevitably Life Lived Never Novels Part Political Postwar Race Resisted Stories Wandering Who Wonder

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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

~Fareed Zakaria

Topics: Anyway Before Disciplined Forces Invented Me Opportunities Plenty Time Waste Waste Time Web Were

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Since all power from the seventh century on was only legitimated by religion, political forces and economic interests pushed for the fabrication of false traditions.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Century Economic False Forces Interests Only Political Power Pushed Religion Seventh Since Traditions

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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Build Driven Export Forces Humanism Itself Militant Modern Muslim Nationalist Never Past Presented Secular Share State Themselves Trapped Unable Up Were West Within

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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Arab Arab World Based Been Development Earth Force Forces Hostile Muslim Progressive Religion Response See Society Terrorism Tormented Waves Whose Why Women World 1990S

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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

~Federica Montseny

Topics: Blind Confirmed Cruel Destructive Forces Grandiose Knew Namely Only Operate Revolution Something Theory Uncontrollable Uncontrolled Which

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Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

~Federica Montseny

Topics: Behind Call Constancy Democracy Down Forces Hundred Hundred Years Madness Might Necessary Old Oppressive Our Same Spain Times Wear Which Years

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If our era is the next Industrial Revolution, as many claim, AI is surely one of its driving forces.

~Fei-Fei Li

Topics: Ai Claim Driving Era Forces Industrial Industrial Revolution Many Next Our Revolution Surely

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I remember doing my mosaics or being in my little hiding place behind the couch snooping. I'd get bored sometimes, of course, but I think that's good for a kid, because it forces you to be creative.

~Feist

Topics: Because Behind Being Bored Couch Course Creative Doing Forces Get Good Hiding Kid Little Place Remember Sometimes Think You I Think I Remember

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