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  • We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years, only three skeletal remains [of early man] were ever found at this site. This was the third one, and we were right there when it happened. In fact, when I first heard they had found something, I said, "Please stop it! Don't do anything right now. Let's do it tomorrow until we have unpacked our cameras and assembled our stuff.

    Men   Discovery   Years  
    Source: www.rogerebert.com
  • It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks

    Two   Long   Parent  
  • Love should be our walk and our talk.

    Rift   Should   Walks  
  • Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).

  • It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

    Military   Moving   Isis  
  • But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

    Mean   Needs   Rift  
    Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade
  • We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

    Mean   Men   Rift  
  • "The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in. Ego is a tension. If you want the ego, then divide yourself as fully as possible - become two persons. That is what is happening to many people, that is what has happened to whole of humanity. Everybody has become two persons: one voice says "Do this," the other voice says "Don't do that" - then the ego arises. Out of friction ego arises, and ego is very intoxicating; it makes you unconscious. This is the whole mechanism."

    Fighting   Two   Voice  
  • exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement.

    Home   Sadness   Thinking  
    Edward W. Said (2013). “Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays”, p.212, Granta Books
  • I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

    Men   Clouds   Sky  
    Ernest Shackleton (2004). “South: The Endurance Expedition”, p.149, Penguin
  • There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

    "Countdown to Election Day; Miners Tell Their Tale; Barbara Billingsley Dies at 94; President and First Lady Campaigning". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2010.
  • In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.

  • You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

    Artist   Rift   Might  
    Letter to Shelley, August 1820, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 323; echoing Edmund Spenser 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 7, st. 28, l. 5: 'And with rich metal loaded every rift'
  • Load every rift with ore.

    Rift   Crafts   Load  
    "An introduction to the poetry of John Keats" by Andrew Motion, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2010.
  • Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

    Sky   White   Imagination  
    "Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921". Book by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and George Leigh Mallory, 1922.
  • Because love is the great commandment, it ought to be at the center of all and everything we do in our own family, in our Church callings, and in our livelihood. Love is the healing balm that repairs rifts in personal and family relationships. It is the bond that unites families, communities, and nations. Love is the power that initiates friendship, tolerance, civility, and respect. It is the source that overcomes divisiveness and hate. Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.

    Hate   Healing   Love Is  
  • We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.

    Culture   Rift   Pops  
    FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 05, 2012
  • In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

    Believe   Fate   Play  
  • We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

  • Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

    People   Rift   Ancient  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.

    Real   Rain   Heart  
    John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and books, or Records of thought and reading”, p.22
  • The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

    Girl   Sex   Teaching  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.581, Jazzybee Verlag
  • It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

  • The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

    Years   Two   Rift  
  • Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

    Fall   Ties   Discovery  
  • There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.

    Clouds   Rift   Frowning  
    Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.167, Univ of California Press
  • Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

    Reality   Moats   Rift  
  • Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

    War   Shining   Navy  
    Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company
  • I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief more complex and more textured, more real. Good writing unsettles, destroys both the author and the reader. From my perspective, there always has to be a tension between the writer and the monolithic elements of the culture, such as religion.

    Real   Writing   Thinking  
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