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  • Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • How acutely sometimes the presence or absence of people mattered -- Kristin Cashore
  • To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. -- William Poundstone
  • I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. -- Sylvia Plath
  • To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. -- Assata Shakur
  • I grew up acutely aware of the exile and distance caused by war. -- Hiam Abbass
  • To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. -- Cynthia Ozick
  • Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare. -- Maya Harris
  • If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything. -- Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely. -- Thomas Reid
  • Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
  • The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life. -- Immanuel Kant
  • As yogis, we are constantly exploring the world of duality, while being acutely aware of the unity of all things. -- Brenda Strong
  • When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave. -- Cate Blanchett
  • The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege. -- Marilyn French
  • It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. -- Marya Mannes
  • People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • I've always been acutely aware of differences and the way you are supposed to act if you want to be popular. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. -- William E. Simon
  • At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable. -- Tennessee Williams
  • Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious. -- Susan Sontag
  • It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Thatcherite economic policy was most acutely felt in the coal industry, where tens of thousands of jobs were lost as pits were shut down. -- John Burnside
  • For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep. -- Charlie Munger
  • One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters. -- Gina Bellman
  • You become acutely aware, if you're touring a lot, that you need new songs to invigorate the live show. And make it interesting for yourself, too. -- Bryan Ferry
  • There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day. -- Frederick Russell Burnham
  • I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce. -- Freeman Dyson
  • Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. -- Sylvia Plath
  • Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie
  • Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet. -- A. N. Wilson
  • Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. -- Daisaku Ikeda
  • She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. -- Dean Koontz
  • How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time... -- Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility. -- David Levithan
  • I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families. -- Rosemarie DeWitt
  • I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them. -- Nigel Short
  • They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports. -- Martin Lewis Perl
  • But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. -- Armistead Maupin
  • The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers. -- Steven Pressfield
  • I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person. -- Veronica Roth
  • Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history. -- Christina Stead
  • I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie
  • I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." -- Agatha Christie
  • We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. -- Greta Scacchi
  • My sons are precious to me and I have tried incredibly hard to strike the right balance between work and home life while being acutely aware that I haven't always got it right. -- Hayley Mills
  • Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not. -- David Hoffman
  • I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss. -- Fernando Torres
  • I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years. -- Saffron Burrows
  • I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination. -- Samantha Shannon
  • We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception. -- Walter Lippmann
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