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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did. ↗

— James Denton

#could #course #did #funny #heightens

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

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I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ↗

— Edward Hall

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama. ↗

— Greg Louganis

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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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