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'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth - either epileptic or dead.
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After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
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All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
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Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
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Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place we are visiting.'
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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.
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Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.
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Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.
Civilization in Transition (1964) -
Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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From initial concept to final build, 'Train' was close to a year in development. Much of this was research and letting the dynamics of the project come to the surface.
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God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
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