#tract

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff. ↗

— Temple Grandin

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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#arts #most #music #really

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. ↗

— Norman Lear

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I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there. ↗

— Demetri Martin

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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

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There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. ↗

— Rose McGowan

#been #cause #certain #death #energy

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

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It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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