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I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Order, Age, Ministry

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1832-1834”

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The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

Bruce Kovner

Odds, Principles, Patterns

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Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

Brendan Sullivan

Powerful, Tape, Evidence

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If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.

Gregor Strasser

World, Wealth, Economic

"The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

Marilyn Ferguson

Healing, Doors, Perfect

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Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.

John Paul Caponigro

Degrees, Photographer, Photograph

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The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.

Horace Bushnell

Fashion, Morning, Sky

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 519, 1895.

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Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true miracle of aliveness, and of a woman's amazing part in that miracle, is suddenly experienced in every cell of one's body. It is in that sense truly an altered state of consciousness.

Riane Eisler

Pain, Cells, Awe And Wonder

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Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust).

Kenny Smith

Truth, Nice, Reality

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My mood altered and the pain turned to rage.

Ariel Sharon

Pain, Rage, Mood

"Abbas Promises Better Future for Palestinians", www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2005.

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Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

Frans Lanting

Skins, Elements, Earth

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He couldn't undo the past, nor could he know how he had already altered the future. But that didn't matter. What he really cared about was captured in the warmth of their interlaced fingers. What mattered was the life the two of them made together now.

Ginn Hale

Love, Past, Two

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Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Georges Cuvier

Marine, Animal, Earth

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We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

Sue Monk Kidd

Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory is clouded with repression and a desire to embellish. The recollections of any individual are conditioned by the general truths to which he or she has tried to live. To recall an event is to interpret it, so the truth is altered by the very act of remembering. Therefore the truth, like God, does not exist - only the search for it.

Frank Hardy

Art, Memories, Desire

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On and on eternally
Shall your altered fluid run,
Bud and bloom and go to seed;
But your singing days are done

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Running, Singing, Bud

Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.187, eBookIt.com

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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

George Orwell

Party, Book, Politics

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.249, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

Stefan Molyneux

Accepted, Accumulation, Rejected

Twitter post from Jul 9, 2017

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People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Harry Hamlin

Ideas, People, Take Time

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Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, Strong, Sometimes

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K, n. A consonant; originally precisely that of our H, but altered to its present shape to commemorate the destruction of [one of two lofty columns in] the great temple of Jarute.

Ambrose Bierce

Two, Shapes, Temples

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Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has the personal power to bring you into altered states of awareness.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, Enlightenment, Poetic

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A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited.

Ernest Hemingway

Country, Tired, Cutting

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.3159, Simon and Schuster

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Not every relationship can be altered to fit.

Amy Dickinson

Women, Fit

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If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Grief, Heart

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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