"Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity."
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"To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere."
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"We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe."
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"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
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"There are many who still do not believe that global warming is a problem at all. And it's no wonder: because they are the targets of a massive and well-organized campaign of disinformation lavishly funded by polluters who are determined to prevent any action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming out of a fear that their profits might be affected if they had to stop dumping so much pollution into the atmosphere."
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"I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you."
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"We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level we must cultivate the notion of not just one religion, one truth, but pluralism and many truths. We can change the atmosphere, and we can modify certain ways of thinking."
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"Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well."
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"Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation."
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"The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink."
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"A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life."
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"All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence."
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"Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide."
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"Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response"
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"Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other."
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"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them."
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"Deforestation for palm-oil production also contributes significantly to climate change. The removal of the native forests often involves the burning of timber and remaining forest undergrowth, emitting immense quantities of smoke into the atmosphere."
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"I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!"
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"The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes."
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"I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth."
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