"All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them."
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"Every one must be struck with astonishment, when he first beholds one of these vast rings of coral-rock, often many leagues in diameter, here and there surmounted by a low verdant island with dazzling white shores, bathed on the outside by the foaming breakers of the ocean, and on the inside surrounding a calm expanse of water, which, from reflection, is of a bright but pale green color."
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"The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water."
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"They say every man needs protection They say every man must fall So, I swear I see my reflection Somewhere inside these walls... I shall be released."
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"It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection."
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"A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection."
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"I believe AIDS is the most important issue we face, because how we treat the poor is a reflection of who we are as a people."
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"Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts."
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"The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it."
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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."
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"One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet."
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"When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them."
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"History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition."
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"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."
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"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives"
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"A person's faith can collapse almost overnight if she failed over the years to listen patiently to her own doubts, which should only be discarded after long reflection."
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"Be harsh with yourself at times."
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"I truly am the reflection of perfection."
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"Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection"
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"A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state."
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