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This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. Alice Waters

Power, Thoughtful, Alive, More, Joyful

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift. Laurie Colwin

Food, Cooking, Gift, Safety, Giving

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. George W. Bush

America, Gun, Smoking, Cloud, Ignore

There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated. Jay Samit

Work, Good, Caring, Planning, Charity

Creativity requires input, and that's what research is. You're gathering material with which to build. Gene Luen Yang

Creativity, Research, You, Build, Which

Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them. Douglas Rushkoff

Social Media, People, Move On, Lost

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. Dave Grohl

Good, Together, Fun, People, Something

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with. Lenny Abrahamson

Work, People, Group, Filmmaking, You

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself. Cate Blanchett

Gift, Difficult, Precious, Rare, More

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.' Antoine Predock

Experience, School, Together, Space, See

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen

Together, People, Done, Nothing, Decide

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark, secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer. John Burroughs

Summer, Rocks, Dark, Place, Crown, Pool

Muhammad Ali struck us in the middle of America's darkest night, in the heart of its most threatening gathering storm. His power toppled the mightiest of foes, and his intense light shined on America, and we were able to see clearly injustice, inequality, poverty, pride, self realization, courage, laughter, love, joy and religious freedom for all. Billy Crystal

Love, Freedom, Light, Courage, Heart

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life. Michael Eric Dyson

Life, Home, Door, Color, Black, Bag

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation. Bruce Springsteen

Life, Good, Understanding, You, Band

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. Hillary Clinton

Change, Hope, Night, Momentum, Looks

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man, Progressive, Him, Like, Principle

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there's nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name. Reza Aslan

People, Name, Demons, Unique, Know, Rome

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. Malcolm Gladwell

Time, Children, Book, Believe, Look

On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table. Yotam Ottolenghi

Big, Table, More, Casual, Little, Loud

It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still Before the storm, in the long interval Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze Which Germans call the Wind's bride. Charles Godfrey Leland

Light, Storm, Clouds, Wind, Trees, Bride

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning. Eric Maskin

Planning, People, Design, Information

I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all. Yvonne Strahovski

Women, People, Thought, Toronto, Feel

In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened. Candice Accola

Smile, Good, Time, Best, Moment, Summer

Keeping the facts differentiated from the fantasy is incredibly helpful in gathering your information as you discover if a person is a match for you. Tracee Ellis Ross

Information, Facts, You, Person, Fantasy

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. Jamais Cascio

Work, Professional, Information, Know

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