#entirely

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. ↗

— Barbara Hepworth

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Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. ↗

— David Hume

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know. ↗

— Sue Grafton

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Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. ↗

— Hu Shih

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