Most golf books are either koany little things filled with visualization techniques and pastoral aphorisms or hagiographies of professional golfers, also filled with visualization techniques and pastoral aphorisms.
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" On ancient Indian teacher Chanakya: "His sutras (aphorisms) are eternal.
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Many of his tweets read like 19th century philosophical aphorisms.
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Certain common aphorisms were never meant to be taken literally.
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But when it comes to his aphorisms, he was unparalleled.
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They include fables and fiction, history and heresy, philosophy and aphorisms.
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You seem at once attracted to aphorisms and suspicious of them.
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Some stream live readings, or post empowering aphorisms, gifs, and memes.
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Too Much Coffee Man doesn't spout punch lines; he offers skewed aphorisms.
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Her narration proffers personal thoughts about art and unexpected aphorisms on mortality.
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Similarly, at 33A, the answer to the clue "Recite aphorisms?" doesn't sound like something one might normally do except under duress, but the answer, STATE MOTTOES, can be reimagined to mean that you STATE (or "recite) MOTTOES (or "aphorisms).
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They could share books, and swap learned aphorisms as they washed the dishes.
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In.Mirror where she posts pictures of moody aphorisms written in lipstick on mirrors.
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There was tall, WASPy Diane Keaton, all fashionably deployed menswear and folksy aphorisms.
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The reader can find well-turned aphorisms of your own throughout the book.
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Some of them are genuinely helpful, but most are packed with aphorisms and cliches.
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In the section titled "Sentence Completion," the entries read like Mad Lib aphorisms: 41.
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Clever and vaguely profound, aphorisms should be the ideal expression for our distracted moment.
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Benjamin's gargantuan Arcades Project brims with philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms, and experimental theses.
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Jeff sets the scene with one of his wise Survivor aphorisms, and opens tribal for discussion.
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It's what's inside that counts... These aphorisms have stood the test of time for many reasons.
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And not surprisingly, Mr. Biden used one of his father's favorite aphorisms to mark the occasion.
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Aphorisms migrate to places where bigger books cannot, and most stay more or less intact over time.
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Her words are often punctuated by folksy aphorisms: "Nothing beats a failure but a try," she says.
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There's no bibliography and no footnotes, but the pages are teeming with aphorisms and hilarious one-liners.
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" Cue one of Cramer's best-known aphorisms: "Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.
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One of Hélio's best-known aphorisms is — O que faço é music/What I make is music.
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In fact, most fortunes are simply aphorisms that are fun to add "in bed" to the end of.
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And that means doing much more than just dropping progressive buzzwords and aphorisms, or showing non-heterosexual couples.
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To adapt one of our new president's favorite aphorisms: We knew he was a troll when we elected him.
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The CIA, not known for tranquility, has baffled followers by posting a flurry of wellness tips and motivational aphorisms.
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This episode, she recognizes that brainy Christian with his glasses and his nerdy aphorisms will be considered the mastermind.
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It was easy to get lost in Gibbon's elegant and sonorous sentences, rife with sly irony and quotable aphorisms.
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I already loved Oscar Wilde's aphorisms and his rigorous belief in the profundity of the mask and the pose.
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I still am, but back then I was even more into short-form aphorisms and that style of writing.
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She knows how to spin macho aphorisms in the way of westerns, making them feel both overheated and satisfying.
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The book is as much personal remembrance as strategic reflection, and is chock-full of aphorisms and enigmatic adages.
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He kept a log of favorite aphorisms he had written, which his son Jeffrey said contained some 1,500 entries.
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Most of his works are conceptual, invoking the history of art, and often textual, confronting the viewer with witty aphorisms.
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Her uncanny photographs of artworks in their natural habitats, and her carefully worded aphorisms can bruise, but ever so gently.
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"Be fearful when others are greedy; be greedy when others are fearful," goes one of Mr. Buffett's most famous aphorisms.
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She wears blue wigs, posts easy aphorisms about life and is excited to be visiting America right now from Australia.
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A book of aphorisms and extremely short stories, The Hermit, will be published by The Song Cave in spring 2016.
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Mr. Dylan soon emerged as a fountainhead of allusions and aphorisms himself — he's got more one-line life lessons than Aesop.
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He is funny and good-natured, but, though he attempted a few aphorisms, he left not a single memorable one behind.
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But most of all, Kafka's "Zürau Aphorisms," translated by Michael Hofmann and with a brief but beautiful introduction by Roberto Calasso.
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In fact, it seems like they've never spoken about the future beyond vague aphorisms about limitless triumph in the big city.
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He dallied in the pits with the drivers and car owners, listening to their aphorisms and sussing out nuggets of information.
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Broadly popular political aphorisms sound pretty similar — whether they're calibrated for a panel of Miss America judges or for America itself.
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As with her "Truisms" series, Holzer's printed proclamations, affirmations, and aphorisms, reproduce the cacophony of opposing voices conveyed through mass media.
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Collected below you'll find likely predictions, and the standard aphorisms of Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, co-founder and central controller of the Facebook.
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At their best, the Lemony Snicket novels contain moments of dry pathos and cynicism couched in aphorisms about how the world works.
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The Beauty Of NGAFThe desire to frame their lives through Pinterest aphorisms and fortune cookie proverbs stopped just short of their captions.
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My Facebook feed is a nightmare of radicalized everyone and fighting all the time and stupid JPGs with angry aphorisms and petitions.
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More vexing still: In pouring his memoir into the mold of an advice book, Bharara winds up speaking in aphorisms and bromides.
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Late in life, he joined the Quakers and wrote almost exclusively for their publications, once self-publishing a list of odd aphorisms.
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If Kafka had rewritten Aesop's fables, the result might have looked like this thought-provoking new collection of literary allegories and aphorisms.
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Now, it seems takeout diners look to their cookies less for predictions about the future and more for hollow New Age aphorisms.
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Not every journalist must choose between the view-from-nowhere voice of the objective journalist and stale aphorisms of major newspaper editorial pages.
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I have seen APIs compared to dictionaries, to collections of aphorisms, to the Star Trek constructed language Klingon, to the QWERTY keyboard configuration.
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Let's call them Radioheadisms: idioms, proverbs, maxims, aphorisms, or other common expressions that have either been repeated verbatim or tweaked in some way.
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Pickens based his career on a set of ethics and lessons he often shared with the public, often accompanied by off-beat aphorisms.
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Elsewhere in Slight Exaggeration you consider the aphorism as a literary mode — in particular you take up Emil Cioran and his pitiless aphorisms.
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Especially in the early going of the book, strangers have a way of stepping on stage to deliver pithy aphorisms before quickly exiting.
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After casting young actors from the Paris suburbs, Malik worked with them to develop some aphorisms that he has inserted into the play.
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Written in the 17th century, his fables became hugely influential; today, they are often reading material for children and a frequent source of aphorisms.
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Soon-Shiong has tweeted a series of aphorisms underscoring his determination to forge ahead despite adversity: "Nothing worth having comes easy," read one tweet.
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But as a living book, it is a chimera of minor forms, a vanity-press amalgam of title, aphorisms, contributors' notes, and copyright page.
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Handsome and spouting aphorisms, he was known as a ladies' man; an obituary in The Los Angeles Times said he was married six times.
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The two people onstage are conspicuously playing chess; they also make toast, fiddle with a radio, drink tea and trade disconnected aphorisms and anecdotes.
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Alas, the show eventually awarded the kingdom to its single most irritating character, Bran Stark, a crippled boy who spoke only in fortune-cookie aphorisms.
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Tawil has a gentle tone of voice, a wise-man inflection, and a tendency to steer the conversation toward spiritual aphorisms—as any imam should.
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"A fair number of aphorisms seek to justify or explain the form itself," Manguso observes in her Harper's essay, defending her preference for the short.
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New helpers from the community include the exuberant Cassandra, a vet tech at their local animal hospital who breathlessly doles out free vaccinations and aphorisms.
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"It reminds me of this quote by Alan Watts," he continued, tossing around philosophical aphorisms with the casualness of someone who was raised by mystics.
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It is impossible to read aphorisms like "post-truth is pre-fascism" and not feel a small chill about the current state of the Republic.
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And second, without even a hint of sincerity, The Boss' standard-issue aphorisms about how family really does matter wind up seeing disingenuous and even sarcastic.
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Her other compositions include "Five Intermezzi," for solo guitar; "Aphorisms," for solo violin; "Above Clouds," for viola and piano; and "Haiku Settings," for soprano and flute.
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The book that brought me together with her was a dull sermon on an approaching "dark age"; her conversational aphorisms were infinitely better than the text.
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The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
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Full of pithy aphorisms, The Society of the Spectacle reads less like an academic text and more like a manifesto — a call to arms against passive spectatorship.
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Opinion Columnist Of all the aphorisms ever inscribed on greeting cards and stitched onto throw pillows, the most frustrating is that ubiquitous snippet of the Serenity Prayer.
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A meditative heir to Nietzsche's aphorisms, Rilke's "Book of Hours" and the verses of Sufi mysticism, "Night" is an intricate thread of reflections on pain and beauty.
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If anything, it serves to highlight and polarize the discourse by leaning on All The President's Men-inspired aphorisms that further insulate the varying factions of citizens.
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Perhaps the aphoristic writer for our age is Susan Sontag, who wrote essays, not aphorisms, but whose work has been thinly sliced into out-of-context quotations.
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The prose poem in her hands can be a dream catcher, a travelogue, a report, an archive, a series of aphorisms, a contemplation of modernity, often simultaneously.
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If by the end she probably still puts too much trust in Dylan's aphorisms, give her credit for recognizing the shortcomings of her footage and correcting course.
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That feeling is accentuated by Vachek's own aphorisms splashing across the screen (as in Ken Jacobs's Star Spangled to Death, a similarly sprawling interrogation of a nation).
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Too often portrayed as poster children for goofy ineptitude who need those how-to-be-a-dad books with pithy aphorisms and gauzy photos of little feet.
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The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
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Social snobbery; razor-sharp aphorisms; and competition over men, names and cucumber sandwiches drive the action until the fateful confession of a former governess delivers an orderly conclusion.
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His journey from Tropos to Instagram has bestowed upon Weil a mix of aphorisms and advice that he shared in the video interview with Stanford professor Tina Seelig.
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When I'm pulling a business team together, I still use those basketball aphorisms I learned as a young person: 'Let's pass the ball around a little before game time.
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Her melodious accent adds an eloquent air to her aphorisms and, before you know it, you've been pulled into Diallo's mission, fully believing in her power to achieve it.
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Despite the inclusion of many calming aphorisms ("You are both the oldest you have ever been and the youngest you will ever be"), she seems to enjoy spooking us.
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The lyrics consist of ever shorter aphorisms, obscure turns of phrase, simple contradictions; half the songs repeat the same minimally varied lines, as if to slam the point home.
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I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
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Like such philosophically head-scratching aphorisms, these stories — part allegory, part myth, part magic realism, part Philip Marlowe, private eye — are sometimes confusing even to those who narrate them.
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The experience, for a reader, is like going through a page-a-day calendar of Classic Management Aphorisms from New Year's Day all the way through to New Year's Eve.
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Two of his aphorisms—that "the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed" and "the street finds its own use for things"—have become received wisdom for futurists.
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Are there other management aphorisms like that, like "recruiting is really my No. 1 time suck," that you would have brushed off as a reporter and now find newly relevant?
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Many Kenyans regarded Mr. Moi as puritanical because he did not drink alcohol or smoke, denounced hippies and miniskirts, led Kenya's Boy Scouts and recited aphorisms against materialism and acquisitiveness.
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It's a cultural thing, too, because if you look at aphorisms in different cultures, they're embedded with the thinking and ideas that are important to that culture, that local context.
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The gargantuan yet well-ordered text brims with lucid annotations, extended quotations from rare source materials, fascinating paraphrases, provocative formulations and philosophical propositions, poetic digressions, lyrical aphorisms and experimental theses.
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The Gentleman is the kind of book where particulars don't matter overmuch: The point is not what Savage and company do, but how many aphorisms they compose while doing it.
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I'd follow any religion built around Pooh aphorisms Christopher Robin advocates for the power and necessity of playfulness in the face a social climate that demands good citizens face unrelenting unpleasantness.
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The aphorisms are sometimes lazy, the facts can be sloppy, and the studied cool – all the while insisting that "I am the uncoolest person you will ever meet" – can be grating.
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Knox was never particularly quotable, but he did have a list of aphorisms, which came to be called Knoxisms, reflecting his approach to life, and he conveyed them to his players.
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The term is one of the many expressions that his staff refers to as "Carl Barneyisms," the abbreviations, aphorisms, quotations and guidelines that pepper the boss's daily conversation and fill employee binders.
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Performing one song each, they grasped at some strands of Mr. Bowie's achievements: his bounding riffs and encompassing melodies, the aphorisms and enigmas of his lyrics, his arty stratagems, his fashion sense.
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And when Kif holds him still and tries to gather facts, Heidl instead launches into wandering lectures on philosophy and humanity, quoting aphorisms and advising Kif on how to live his life.
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Whereas Mr Scalia savaged his colleagues by likening their views to "pure applesauce" or "the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie", Mr Gorsuch is refined and respectful of those with whom he disagrees.
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Mr Jarosinski has a newspaper column in Die Zeit, a German weekly, has published a book of his aphorisms, and now spends much of his time on the road playing to live audiences.
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Although not widely known, the poetry of Dinos Christianopoulos, with its sharp and cynical aphorisms on life and love, has established him in Greece both as a significant poet and a cult figure.
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" Biden, who is trying to make it to the White House 32 years after he first declared his candidacy at the Wilmington train station, might heed another of Paige's aphorisms: "Don't look back.
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At the same time, "blur" also signifies various Surrealist and Dadaist linguistic practices, such as aphorisms, wordplay, and poems, which mined Freudian, often erotic, connotations, thus evoking the secret workings of the unconscious.
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The device's crisp, colorful display had what I'd call a canned demo of photos, news, calendar aphorisms, and multiple clock faces that I could scroll through by sliding my finger across the screen.
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Sure, I tried to remember to "stop and smell the roses," but other aphorisms, like "everything happens for a reason" or "when a door closes, a window opens" left me cold at best.
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" Famous quotes: Among the witty aphorisms and quips that were eventually collected in a book, "The World According to Karl": "Sweatpants are a sign of defeat" and "I'm very much down to earth.
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With images sometimes near billboard size, it contrasts her uncanny gift for photographing artworks in their natural habitats (galleries, museums, collectors' homes, auctions) and her equal talent for graphic design and carefully worded aphorisms.
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One of her most famous aphorisms — "the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it" — is more or less the motto by which Mildred has chosen, or been driven, to live.
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The problem is that daddies — consider those stern yet kindly men who smoke pipes and deliver shopworn aphorisms in in deep and manly voices — may have good intentions but don't necessarily know best at all.
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But I pull out the aphorisms that worked for me when I was 19 and hope they still have traction with the 19-year-old who is standing across from me at the prep table.
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In a group interview with six of them after Mr. Booker's rally, they seamlessly worked aphorisms like "people have the power" and "your voice is more expensive than what money can buy" into their responses.
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The domestic and intellectual meet on the same plain in her work; the swirl of hair on the back of a baby's head is as worthy a subject of contemplation as one of Wittgenstein's aphorisms.
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As the Brazilian filmmaker João Moreira Salles pointed out in his recent documentary "In the Intense Now," those militant Parisian slogans sound like nothing so much as advertising catchphrases, less Marxist aphorisms than capitalist koans.
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He guzzles Red Bull and recruits like a demon and spouts aphorisms in a gumbo-soaked drawl, and he does all of it at maximum volume, a human train whistle piercing every environment he passes through.
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His accomplishments and fame outside the ring rivaled his achievements within it: his charisma, his religious and political stances, his famous aphorisms and the way he openly reveled in having the world's eyes trained on him.
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In the first season director Cary Fukunaga's rolling shots of the Louisiana bayou and slow, lingering takes of creepy crime scenes primed audiences for Mr McConaughey's hypnotic delivery of cryptic aphorisms like "time is a flat circle".
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Owned and run by a Dutch-Ghanaian, it's the best place in Accra to shop for local arts and crafts, including those ornamented with Adinkra: visual symbols, originally created by the Akans, that represent concepts or aphorisms.
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" Ms. Hruska MacPherson, who started way ahead by virtue of her marriage to a rich man, was now making it selling sweaters with airy political aphorisms — "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted'' — for hundreds of dollars each.
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Yet throughout, Reines whips us through emotional states (ecstasy, depression, self-loathing, infatuation), physical locations (Queens, Arizona, Lithuania, Haiti) and forms of communication (diary entries, dreams, couplets, aphorisms) — all to consider what we're doing to one another.
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It's the philosophy at the forefront of his attitude, that allows for an oscillation between love and hate, one that predates influencer culture, shiny aphorisms and most importantly the backlash against positive thinking with regards to mental health.
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Watching the scene unfold was Zhou Ying, who manages Wang — or at least a very realistic robot that not only looks like Wang but is able to imitate his calligraphy and repeat more than 6003,000 of his aphorisms.
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DJ Khaled shouted some aphorisms, YG showed off his impeccable style and some local inter-gang unity and then the gospel-crossover king Kirk Franklin brought the wave of emotion home with a choir in white and gold.
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Composed of Lazi's eight notebooks and described as a survival guide, an array of literary forms conspire together: aphorisms, fragments and allegorical interludes about crocodiles who wear human suits when they go outside and symbolize the queer body.
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" Men and women stare past one another and utter cracked aphorisms like "When it comes to spatial matters, all humans are Euclideans" and "When a man is desperate for a compliment, it is the same as shooting a horse.
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Reflect on the struggles your ancestors endured so you could exist When I think about what my ancestors went through in the shtetls of Russia so that I could tweet pithy aphorisms, it makes me feel like shit. 11.
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This month the guest headliners are Jacqueline Novak, who doles out Jane Austen-like wit with the self-assurance of Jane Eyre, and Jaboukie Young-White, whose Twitter feed could be compiled into a best-selling book of aphorisms.
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While we wait for season 5 of that show to resume, we can head to the mythical kingdom of Volsung, where the language is aphorisms ("A day of grief is longer than a year of joy") and the king is dead.
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"As January goes, so goes the entire market year," is one of the best-known aphorisms from the Stock Trader's Almanac, an annual compilation of dates, statistics and advice for investors that was first published in 1968 by Yale Hirsch.
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"Notes on the Cinematograph" (previously published here in 1977, in the same translation by Jonathan Griffin, as "Notes on Cinematography") is the ultimate refinement of Bresson's thought, a loosely grouped succession of aphorisms and Zen koans ("the soundtrack invented silence").
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That's one of the core questions surrounding Column, a work-in-progress social network that seems to be centered on leveraging the aphorisms of Silicon Valley billionaires (think Peter Thiel, Marc Benioff) to win attention from fans of the megarich.
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HJNTIY and its many aphorisms (like, "Don't waste the pretty," shorthand for the notion that you're too special to squander time on someone who doesn't see that) were a frequent topic of conversation during our four-hour shifts at Victoria's Secret that summer.
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The Wu-Tang Clan were fans of the kung fu movies that regularly played in neighborhood theaters who later on became plain-old kung fu fanatics; they channeled its aphorisms, value systems, and vicious barebones aesthetic to animate their own hard-knock experiences.
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Ms Goldberg commissioned several this year from Barbara Kruger, an American artist known for her visually arresting posters that combine black-and-white advertising imagery with hard-edged aphorisms in white Futura font ("I shop therefore I am", "Your comfort is my silence").
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Alongside Turkmenbashi's sui generis "masterpiece" Kalder considers the dense treatises of Lenin, the aphorisms of Chairman Mao, and the romances of Saddam Hussein, which he was still writing and rushing to print even as U.S. forces were invading his country in 2003.
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Before she wrote "Outline," Cusk was a wickedly clever stylist, who fired off aphorisms like a French court diarist and made up the sort of metaphors—"cauliflower-haired old ladies"; the "floury haze" of a dry summer—that you flag in the margin.
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He has played up to the image, stoked it, encouraged it: the carefully scripted boastfulness, the absurd aphorisms, the artwork in which he is depicted as an angel, the fact that he referred to himself as a God on Twitter just this week.
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But now Mr. Ai has returned to a more traditional form of expression: "Humanity," a little blue book published this week by Princeton University Press that collects excerpts from Mr. Ai's thoughts and aphorisms — expressed in previously published interviews and other public appearances.
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So many of the themes, philosophical inquiries and character types that appear here will return, honed as Lispector refines her style and hardens them into the diamond-like perfection of her final books, which are narrated in jagged aphorisms — "anti-literature" she called them.
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After many weeks at a low thrum, Ru seemed to be back over the weather this week (or at least back on his Express Scripts plan), as he flirted and flitted about the room, spilling aphorisms and gay slang like an overfilled martini glass.
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Nearly all popular books about Buddhism are rich in poetic quotation and arresting aphorisms, those ironic koans that are part of the (Zen) Buddhist décor—tales of monks deciding that it isn't the wind or the flag that's waving in the breeze but only their minds.
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"Such big decisions being made about our future made by people who know so little about our past," says Stewart (Stephen McKinley Henderson), a programmer who begins the series as a wisecracking breath of fresh air but, by its end, is reciting poetry and speaking in aphorisms.
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His contribution to Documenta 14, the prestigious international exhibition in Kassel, Germany — and this year also in Athens — is the slyly subversive "Whispering Campaign," featuring performers who walk the streets of both cities, confiding in strangers the artist's elliptical yet biting aphorisms about race and color.
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Played by Phoenix, that humanity breaks through — he cries, he smiles — but at times, he seems to slip into a near-stoned affect, as if Jesus was a hippie cult leader spouting vague aphorisms, not a man whom people found so magnetic that they had to follow him.
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While proverbs and adages (cousins of the aphorism, to be sure) often lose their authorship and become orphaned—think about how many times someone has mentioned "an old Irish saying" without knowing anything about its actual provenance—aphorisms stay tethered to their creators, dragging their voices along through history.
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The book that marked our entry into the age of the aphorism, and not in a great way, was David Shields's "Reality Hunger," a 2010 collection of age-old aphorisms, inspirational quotes seemingly cribbed from Reader's Digest and sentimental scribbles from Mr. Shields himself, all tossed together without attribution.
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" Coping is about the best a struggling poet named Maude can manage in "The Indian Uprising" when she pays an impulsive birthday visit to her former writing professor, an aging drunkard suffering from diabetes and heart disease who is given to aphorisms like "Alcoholics don't care about entrees.
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Once there, he falls under the protection of a white-power gang; proves his cred by murdering a snitch; and meets the Beast (Holt McCallany), a prison leader who spouts aphorisms ("a warrior's deadliest weapon is his mind") and who supposedly runs California from his open-air cage.
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Set aside your image of Jenny Holzer, the reigning art-world star whose popularized aphorisms — such as "Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise" and "Protect Me From What I Want" — have been emblazoned on marble benches and massive LED screens from the Guggenheim Museum to the Venice Biennale.
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Highlights include Jenny Holzer's "Olympian Sign" (225), a continuous LED scroll of the artist's aphorisms; Carl Andre's five notebooks, in which he arranged words as sequential modular units; and Guillaume Apollinaire's "Peintures de Léopold Survage" (215), featuring 21961 picture poems in the form of motifs like horses, clocks and flowers.
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Some of her peers, like Holzer, with her biting aphorisms, and Cindy Sherman, with her iterations on identity, are, by choice, tethered to the literal and corporeal, easy to view as bards of a roiled body politic, reflecting and commenting on cultural realities that shift painfully in the harsh light.
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DJ Khaled didn't become Snapchat's breakout star so much because he was a savvy user of the app (although he is) but because his brand of being a guy who jet skis bravely into the realm of the absurd armed solely with pithy aphorisms is ideal for the current age of media.
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They read like Hurstonian aphorisms — "Just because you work on your knees don't mean you gotta look like it" could be pulled from the mouth of a character in Their Eyes Were Watching God — but construct a colloquial narrative that is distinctly black, distinctly urban, and comes from the mouth of a Baltimore boy.
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The narrator, an unnamed Polish writer with a hungry eye and an unappeasable need to travel, presents an omnium-gatherum, a big book full of many peculiar parts: there are mini-essays on airports, hotel lobbies, the psychology of travel, guidebooks, the atavistic pleasures of a single Polish word, the aphorisms of E. M. Cioran.
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The "Green Light" singer posted an image on her Instagram account of a close-up of the back of her red Valentino dress, where she had hand-sewn a small piece of paper featuring one of Jenny Holzer's "Inflammatory Essays," a series of lithographs that feature different aphorisms, which the artist created between 1979 and 1982.
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" The conceit allows room to gather everything from Freud's ideas about childhood to Nora Ephron's take on her neck, and it's also ideally built for amusing aphorisms, like this one by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in "Cancer Ward": "After the age of 40, a man's flat gives a good indication of what he is and what he has deserved.
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Well, except for a central metal shelving unit with several black-and-white copies of reports, a stack of double-sided color handouts that convey information about the piece (a text by writer, architect, and historian Sadia Shirazi) and some video screenshots, and two large, flatscreen monitors flashing videos and aphorisms in white text on a blue background.
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Though some of his aphorisms have stuck, both funny (Doctors "are lucky: the sun shines on their successes and the earth hides their failures") and profound ("We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn"), he is not really an aphorist.
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" In his magnum opus, " The Book of Disquiet "—a collage of aphorisms and reflections couched in the form of a fictional diary, which he worked on for years but never finished, much less published—Pessoa returns to the same theme: "Through these deliberately unconnected impressions I am the indifferent narrator of my autobiography without events, of my history without a life.
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They include an impressively competent stockbroker reciting Futurist manifestoes with a slight Queens accent; an icy chief executive quoting manifestoes on abstract painting as if announcing the company's latest strategies; and an imperious Russian choreographer who rehearses a troupe of silver-garbed aliens more appropriate to Twyla Tharp, interspersing her impatient corrections with rebellious aphorisms from Fluxus and Performance artists.
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"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and "The revolution is not a dinner party," Mao's apologias for mass killing, may not be admirable sentiments, but they are memorable aphorisms—far more memorable than the contrasting truth that some political power grows out of the barrels of some guns some of the time, depending on what you mean by "power" and "political," and whom you're pointing the gun at.
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There are, of course, the deliberate attempts to create pro-Trump TikTok content of this type: quick staged debates with imaginary liberals, jokes at the expense of "snowflakes," and varieties of sloganeering, including recited political aphorisms ("if you want to make a conservative angry, tell him a lie; if you want to make a liberal angry, tell him the truth") and bumper-sticker-length rhetorical questions (the effect is, approximately, Facebook meme read out loud, sometimes in voice-over).
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Said was talking mainly about Middle Eastern cultures, but much the same could be said of Buddhism: Western thinkers may cherish its art and its cryptic aphorisms, and may see meditation as therapeutically useful, but many of them don't imagine Buddhist thought playing in the same league as Western thought; they don't imagine a Buddhist philosophy that involves coherent conceptual structures that can be exposed to evidence and logic and then stand or fall on their merits.
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