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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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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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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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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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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality. ↗

— Gary Ross

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The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum. ↗

— Nikki Reed

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The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

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One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

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