"Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away."
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"It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave."
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"With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people."
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"Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn."
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"We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration."
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"Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms."
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"Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering."
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"We are entering a new world in which we can choose to follow our own steps, not those that society forces us to take."
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"Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group."
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"I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict."
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"The era of procrastination...is coming to a close...we are entering a period of consequences - Winston Churchill (warning about the danger of appeasement"
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"The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering."
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"What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it."
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"The problems that we are facing are multiplying on the planet - economic, environmental, social, political upheaval, the list goes on. It's a time of change and transition and, as I see it, we are entering a new state of consciousness. It's a transition between one state of consciousness and another. It's an evolutionary leap that is happening."
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"President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering America."
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"He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start."
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"When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken."
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"Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back."
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"During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires."
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"Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations."
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