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• That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.

  Ernest Holmes

  Spiritual, Reality, Denial

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• The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion.

  Stewart Dalzell

  Technology, Government, Principles

  Excerpts From Opinions of Judges on Blocking Enforcement of InternetLaw, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 1996.

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• An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Florida, Car

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• Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

  James Joyce

  Drinking, Masturbation

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• I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Mind, May, Spirit

  "Alexander Shulgin obituary" by Mike Power, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

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• Now take a look at the way the Drug War is conducted over the past 40 years. It goes back farther, but start from 40 years ago: There's very little spent on prevention and treatment. There's a lot on policing, a ton of stuff on border control and a lot on out-of-country operations. And the effect on the availability of drugs is almost undetectable; drug prices don't change on measures of availability. So there are two possibilities: Either those conducting the Drug War are lunatics, or they have another purpose.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, War, Past

  "Noam Sayin’?". Interview with T.A. Sedlak, chomsky.info. July 29, 2011.

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• Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Believe, Animal

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.202, Counterpoint Press

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• Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and one of the things to tick off was going to be, "Do you have a reasonably intelligent girlfriend who shares your aspirations, and who is fully prepared to accept your limited availability?

  Maureen Johnson

  Girlfriend, Intelligent, Sometimes

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.46, Penguin

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• The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white solid, but that in no way whatsoever could it be argued that these memories had been contained within the white solid. Everything I had recognized came from the depths of my memory and my psyche. I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can catalyze its availability.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Memories, White, Mind

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• Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage.

  Roberto Bolano

  Writing, Hair, Bridges

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• But the grind has begun. The windows don’t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.

  Dave Eggers

  Inspiration, Animal, Frustration

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.287, Pan Macmillan

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• But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Missing, Historical, Elements

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• I hear loads of cynics saying that I'll never be able to change anything. They say that junk food marketing and the ready availability of fast food is just too powerful. But I'd say in response, screw you. I know that most people, if they're really honest, are fed up with the same old rubbish

  Jamie Oliver

  Powerful, People, Marketing

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• A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

  Jane McGonigal

  Oil, Dramatic, Decrease

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• I was certainly not inclined to decriminalise. However, during my time in the unit, as I saw more and more evidence of 'what works', to quote New Labour's mantra of the time, it became apparent to me that ... enforcement and supply-side interventions were largely pointless. They have no significant, lasting impact on the availability, affordability or use of drugs.

  Julian Critchley

  Impact, Drug, Use

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• ... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.

  William Vickrey

  Government, Analysis, Use

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• We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

  Carol Zaleski

  Prayer, Dust, Dry

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• French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Quality, Flavor, French Woman

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• That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

  Joan Leslie

  Luck, Awful, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then anima mundi indicates the animated possibilities presented by each new event as it is, its sensuous presentation as a face bespeaking its interior image - in short, its availability to imagination, its presence as psychic reality. Not only animals and plants ensouled as in the Romantic vision, but soul is given with each thing, God-given things of nature and man-made things of the street.

  James Hillman

  Animal, Reality, Men

  James Hillman (2006). “City and Soul: Uniform Edition”, Spring Publications

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• There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.

  Helmut Newton

  Thinking, Giving, Erotic

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• The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

  Edward Abbey

  Suicide, Sex, Alcohol

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so on - are usually the very same people who seek the fulfillment of their prophecies by opposing the free availability to the young of contraception and the removal of the stigma and mystification that surround venereal disease.

  Colin Ward

  Baby, Sex, People

  Colin Ward (2017). “Anarchy in Action”, p.88, PM Press

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• To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.

  Mary Ann Glendon

  Abortion, Feminist, Vote

  ""The Women of 'Roe v. Wade'". First Things, June/July 2003.

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• Everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

  Kristen Stewart

  Emotional, Guy, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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