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It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.(Quote by - Charles Darwin)

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation -- both a gift and a mastering passion -- that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. (Quote by - George F. Will)

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them. (Quote by - Donald Davis)

It was sort of his `Brando` moment - his very `method` moment. He just absorbed it and continued on. (Quote by - Barry Pepper)

It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius. (Quote by - Antonin Artaud)

Reed is one of those dedicated beings, the artist who is completely absorbed by his dream. He eats, drinks and sleeps cinema. (Quote by - Michael Redgrave)

If you want to live in this world, doing the duty of life, knowing the blessings of it, doing your work heartily, and yet not absorbed by it, remember that the one power whereby you can so act is, that all shall be consecrated to Christ, and done for His sake. (Quote by - Alexander Maclaren)

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)

Theology in general, instead of acting as a beacon-light to guide the people of God, the laity, as they confront the problems of living for Christ in the world, has for generations been taking refuge in an ever more minute study of Christian origins. Theology is less and less about God and God's world, and more and more a department of ancient history, absorbed in minute details of historical and literary criticism. The whole business is wildly out of proportion. (Quote by - O. Fielding Clarke)

We still have our TAG clusters in elementary and we still have our TAG courses in high school. Our TAG program is as robust and alive as it ever was. It`s the administrative support, generally speaking, will have to be absorbed by other administrators on. (Quote by - Jim Hawkins)

He just has really absorbed what we're teaching him, and has taken it to the field. He has a good football mind. (Quote by - Mike Sherman)

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. (Quote by - Rosten, Leo)

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist. (Quote by - Emile Durkheim)

The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new. (Quote by - Aviv Kochavi)

If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. (Quote by - Daniel Okrent)

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher. (Quote by - Buddha)

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind. (Quote by - Amjad Jamal)

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment. It wasn`t violence, it wasn`t drink - it was money. I was a sensitive, runty, rednecky kid, and I absorbed my parents, stress about that. Now I find myself li. (Quote by - Paul Schneider)

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. (Quote by - James Taylor)

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them. The rays simply destroyed body cells - caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke thei. (Quote by - John Hersey)

To become completely absorbed in world affairs on an equal basis. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)

That`s exactly how he got to Capitol Hill. He listened and he watched, he studied, he absorbed. Bill Fulbright became Bill Clinton`s gian. (Quote by - Lee Williams)

Attuned to the Lord s Love, she is intuitively absorbed in bliss, she obtains the Lord God. (Quote by - Guru Nanak)

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. (Quote by - Pam Gems)

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