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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell
Living
Else
Possessions
More
More Than Anything
Prevents
Nobly
Freely
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Us
Preoccupation
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer
God
Space
Sky
Somewhere
Stars
Back
Our
Drawn
Outer
Outer Space
Came
Passionate
Impulse
Where
Preoccupation
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
John Ortberg
Soul
Chronic
Liberated
Hurry
Unsatisfied
Attended
Understood
Discontent
Preoccupation
Desires
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson
History
Man
Sense
Distinguished
Thread
Superiority
Civilization
Outward
Course
Command
His
Western
Western Civilization
Preoccupation
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Caitlin Doughty
Death
Word
Healthy
Definition
Morbid
Perfectly
Unfortunately
Which
Unhealthy
Mean
Preoccupation
I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.
Chris Milk
You
Technology
Else
Bit
See
About
Could
Had
Knew
Make
Becomes
Always
Artwork
Wanted
Capabilities
Your
Paint
Preoccupation
Deeper
Palette
A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.
David Levering Lewis
Education
Higher Education
Country
Submit
Defensive
Response
Has-Been
Higher
Academic
Scientists
Traditional
Been
Years
Social
Theory
Preoccupation
Many
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
Fritz Lang
Death
Fear
Cruelty
Films
Horror
Am
Pathology
Show
Preoccupation
Fascinated
Profoundly
Violence
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.
Geraldine Brooks
Time
Age
Women
Cancer
Our
Sexuality
Adolescence
Horrifying
Emerging
Had
Idea
Most
Particularly
Been
Women Are
Hit
Suspect
Afraid
Central
Breast Cancer
Preoccupation
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
Irving Babbitt
Sides
Has-Been
Feature
Both
Remarkable
Masses
Been
Lot
Movement
Sentimental
Preoccupation
Utilitarian
Humanitarian
For most of the countries I visit, getting affordable energy in the hands of the people is a preoccupation.
John S. Watson
People
Energy
Visit
Countries
Most
Affordable
Hands
Getting
Preoccupation
I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether or not those roles serve us or ultimately kind of imprison us.
Karyn Kusama
Women
Think
Those
Kind
Idea
Ultimately
Roles
Whether
Us
Meant
Preoccupation
Play
Serve
Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense of community and a culture, but starting from the very immediate issue of how action influences perception.
Larry Harvey
Culture
Space
Perception
Sense
Community
Action
Our
Way
Immediate
Would
Generate
Induce
Always
How
Issue
Been
Very
Craft
Influences
Interactions
Social
Turn
Such A Way
Preoccupation
Starting
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it's 'cult,' it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
Leon Redbone
Somebody
Past
Sense
Think
Market
Gives
Excuse
Excuses
Make
Cult
American
Current
Legitimacy
Justify
Means
Preoccupation
Illegitimate
When I went to college in 1988, most people were probably trying to figure out how they were going to decorate their rooms, who was going to be on their floor, what classes they were going to take. My big preoccupation at that point was figuring out how I could get my absentee ballot so that I could vote in Ohio for Michael Dukakis at that time.
Marne Levine
Time
Vote
People
College
Big
Out
Classes
Point
Could
Take
Most
How
Were
Ballot
Michael
Get
Trying
Going
Ohio
Rooms
Decorate
Figure
Who
Preoccupation
Figuring
Floor
But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.
Michael Shermer
Science
Age
Live
Our
Myths
Because
Preoccupation
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
Naomi Wolf
Success
Work
Me
Creative
Woman
Women
Hate
Power
High
High Level
Madonna
Follow
Allow
Powerful
Forbidden
Women Are
Expected
Script
Preoccupation
Usual
Her
Thing
Level
Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
Rachel Kushner
Women
Area
Were
Male
Up
Preoccupation
Growing
Growing Up
Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Robert Lanza
Today
Science
Physics
Become
Beneath
Everything
Earth
Flying
Relentlessly
All Things
Physical
Kingdom
Above
Indifferent
Purpose
Takes
Wrong
Absurdly
Like
Island
Question
Modern
Turn
Theories
Preoccupation
Swift
Things
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan
You
Experience
Language
Philosophical
Immediate
How
How Far
Go
Discovering
Linguistic
Than
Literary
Far
Create
Less
Preoccupation
Elementary
Thing
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record.
Roger Bannister
Record
Had
Always
Been
Hold
Mile
Preoccupation
British
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
Saint Bernard
God
You
Heart
Sadness
Will
Despair
Otherwise
Indeed
Must
More
Glad
Lead
Remembrance
Sin
Also
Sorrow
Endless
Dwell
Should
Preoccupation
Harden
Deeply
Necessary
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Age
First
Too
Would
Easy
Sediment
Poetic
Recover
Point
Sounds
Been
Continuity
Linked
Formal
Which
Us
Decorum
Explosion
Preoccupation
Nuclear
Interrupted
In the history of postwar German writing, for the first 15 or 20 years, people avoided mentioning political persecution - the incarceration and systematic extermination of whole peoples and groups in society. Then, from 1965, this became a preoccupation of writers - not always in an acceptable form.
W. G. Sebald
History
People
Writing
Political
First
Society
Systematic
Postwar
Writers
Acceptable
Became
Always
Years
Persecution
German
The History Of
Form
Then
Incarceration
Avoided
Preoccupation
Whole
Groups
Extermination
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
W. G. Sebald
Live
Extremely
Must
Brooding
Uncomfortable
Writer
Preoccupation
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.
Wynton Marsalis
Progress
Our
Concern
Overshadowed
Human
Maybe
Human Progress
Preoccupation
Technological
Technological Progress
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