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• The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately
  represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Good Luck, Reality, Thinking

  "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot, 1980.

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• Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jobs, Unemployment, May

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it-not behind, but as a springboard to something better.

  Paul Levinson

  Space, Civilization, Perspective

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• So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

  Don Henley

  Philosophy, Creating, Enemy

  Song: Lilah, Album: I Can't Stand Still

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• A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Reality, Organization

  Nelson Mandela (1978). “The struggle is my life”

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• The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.

  R. D. Laing

  Yesterday, Intellectual, Machines

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• After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
  That is not even wrong.

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Reading, Science, Paper

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• Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside.

  Yoko Ono

  Controversy, Touch Me

  Song: Kiss Kiss Kiss

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• I love working with a stylist but I also love having personal relationships with designers. A stylist is great for pulling together an entire outfit, accessories included, and for shaking me out of my comfort zone.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Together, Comfort, Accessories

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• I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.

  Chick Willis

  Meat, Want, Bones

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• I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.

  Sarah Drew

  Crazy, Thinking, Hollywood

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• When I see a woman who is all gaunt and emaciated, I don't think she's beautiful. She reminds me of a Chihuahua that's freezing and shaking.

  Rosario Dawson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Chihuahua

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• You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

  David Stern

  Attitude, Inspire, Baking

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• The sun is a huntress young,
  The sun is a red, red joy,
  The sun is an Indian girl,
  Of the tribe of the Illinois.
  The sun is a smouldering fire,
  That creeps through the high gray plain,
  And leaves not a bush of cloud
  To blossom with flowers of rain.
  The sun is a wounded deer,
  That treads pale grass in the skies,
  Shaking his golden horns,
  Flashing his baleful eyes.
  The sun is an eagle old,
  There in the windless west.
  Atop of the spirit-cliffs
  He builds him a crimson nest.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Girl, Rain, Flower

  Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.

  Charlie Campbell

  Bible, Religious, Spring

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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  Abel Ferrara

  Movie, Hands, Actors

  Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

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• The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its humility the deepest, its power world-shaking, its love enveloping, its simplicity that of a trusting child.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Children, Humility, Profound

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• The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant. The gate of earth should be shut tight, The portals of heaven should be first opened. Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth.

  Sun Bu'er

  Heart, Yellow, Meditation

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• The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, People, Joy

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Dog, Glasses

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• Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

  John Milton

  Strong, Sleep, Eye

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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• I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' And I said, 'I don't feel good.' And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she says, 'What's the matter?' And I told her. I said, 'I just thought about that execution that I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved in.' And what it was, something triggered within, and it just, everybody - all of these executions all sprung forward.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Two, Wife

  "In America; Inside the Death House" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2000.

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• The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dice box in hand, shaking the dice.

  Denis Diderot

  Strong, Gambling, Hands

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Majesty, I beg your forgiveness for the idignity you suffered and offer you the head of our enemy as—" "Put that thing down," I said impatiently. "I can't talk to you when you're shaking his head like a damned maraca.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Enemy, Majesty, Said

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.225, Penguin

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• Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
  shaking ancient oaks.

  Sappho

  Sexy, Wind, Soul

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