- Fossil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Embedded Quotes
On what lodges permanently in memory and history.
This collection of embedded quotes explores things that become permanently lodged in us, whether it's a personal letter tucked inside a novel or a nation's identity woven into its own historical record. It ties in with our Culture collection.
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- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
- Human Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
- Health Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be associated with content and characters that will be embedded in the hearts and minds of people for a long time.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And this may be hard to swallow for those deeply embedded in a particular political philosophy, but I think most people - whatever their choices - simply want what's best for themselves, their families and their country. They differ on what that means and the best way to get there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I really like the human drama embedded in a crime story, and I like the way European films do that.
- DNA
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to describe recurring themes as being part of a writer's DNA - something so deeply embedded in us that even we don't notice it until we've written three or four books.
- Lips
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
- Confines
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We're not just healing from what's been inflicted onto us as children... it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020