Fixed Quotes

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Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate… — Rachel Carson
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. — Frederick Lenz
The judgment that you pass today will only hinder a person in their spiritual evolution. All you do is say to the person, psychically: "This… — Frederick Lenz
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. — Frederick Lenz
One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and… — Joseph Jaworski
As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That… — David Salle
In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits. — Bob Barton
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. — Henry Adams
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have… — Galileo Galilei
Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always… — Marcus Aurelius
In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart… — D. H. Lawrence
I call those men worldly, earthly, or coarse, whose hearts and minds are wholly fixed on this earth, that small part of the universe they… — Jean de la Bruyere
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken. — Susan Vaught
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as… — Karl Marx
Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever… — Karl Marx
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in… — Felix Frankfurter

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