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• LSD lets you in on something. When you're tripping, the idea of race disappears; the idea of sex disappears; you don't even know what species you are sometimes. And I don't know of anybody who hasn't come back from that being more humane, more thoughtful, more understanding.

  Ken Kesey

  Sex, Thoughtful, Race

  The Sun Times (South Africa), August 29, 1999.

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• You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

  Michael Reagan

  Going Away, Watches

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• Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Together, World, Life Is

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• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  J. B. Priestley

  Despair, Degrees, Needs

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Achievement

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Agreement, Civilization

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Death, Sin, Disappearance

  Mary Baker Eddy (1950). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

  Brooks Robinson

  Virginia, Reason, Colony

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• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  Eduard Shevardnadze

  Pyramids, One Day, Might

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• Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Israel, Maps, States

  "A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism". Book by Daniel Byman, p. 170, June 15, 2011.

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• I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

  Rip Torn

  Friends, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

  Skitch Henderson

  Radio

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• If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear.

  Ray Davies

  New Orleans, Heritage, World

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• Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

  Boy George

  Long Distance Relationship, Radiance, Separation

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  Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

  Rumi

  Hurt, Blessing, Wings

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• The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Cute, Understanding, Looks

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• We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

  R. D. Laing

  Change, Historical, Aging

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

  Greta Garbo

  Country, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

  Amy Grant

  Eye, Talking, Different

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• It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Differences, Giving

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XVIII, 1840.

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• For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Sleep, Eight

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• War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Nature, Regret, War

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• Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

  Arthur Kroker

  Redneck, America, Black

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

  David Cronenberg

  Thinking, Agony, Spiders

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• Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

  Bodhidharma

  Moving, Birth, Appearing

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.35, Macmillan

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