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  • A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
  • The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. [About Russia]
  • The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
  • Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
  • The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
  • The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
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  • David Lehman Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • George Orwell A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George Eliot A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bram Stoker Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Aaron Hill Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Truman Capote Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Heraclitus Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Bethany McLean I'm not a big believer in the power of more regulation to fix things. I think it can almost be more dangerous because it provides the illusion that things have been fixed without the substance.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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