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• There are dimensions of power, there are dimensions of knowledge, and there are dimensions of confusion. The universe is a very, very big place. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Other Worlds

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• Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Night, Thinking

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• Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Other Worlds

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• There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Order, Years

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• There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Helping

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• The experiences that you have in astral dimensions are not essentially all that different from the experiences you have here in the physical dimension. They are all transient.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Different

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home.

  Susan Jeffers

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Perhaps the mistake I made at the start of my mandate is not understanding the symbolic dimension of the president's role and not being solemn enough in my acts. A mistake for which I would like to apologise or explain myself and which I will not make again. Now, I know the job.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Jobs, Mistake, Understanding

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• It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up, there was a physical dimension to it, that you when you became exhausted, you'd have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster.

  Tom Udall

  Ideas, Exhausted, Filibuster

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2010.

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• Thank God for that. You can shut them, say, 'Hold on a moment.' You play God to it. But who has ever torn himself from the claw that encloses you when you drop a seed in a TV parlour? It grows you any shape it wishes! It is an environment as real as the world. It becomes and is the truth. Books can be beaten down with reason. But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Book, Play

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• Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Essence

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• Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Children, Dark

  H.P. Lovecraft (2005). “At the Mountains of Madness: The Definitive Edition”, p.107, Modern Library

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• The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Moving, Men, Focus

  "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 127, 1972.

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• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  J. L. Austin

  Real, Names, Suggestions

  "Philosophical Papers". Book by J. L. Austin, edited by James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, p. 180, 1979.

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• One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.

  Max Beckmann

  Two, Magic, Glimpse

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

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• The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Essentials, Reign

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.85, Stanford University Press

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• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Past, Generosity

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Lecture given at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 30, 1997.

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• I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

  Charles Bukowski

  Evil, Giving, Feel Good

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further dimension of variety. Since the shapes of art do not primarily bear witness to the objective nature of the things for which they stand, they can reflect individual interpretation and invention.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Shapes, Bears

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.300, Univ of California Press

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• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)

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• An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

  Louis Sachar

  Ideas, Waiting, Said

  Louis Sachar (2011). “The Cardturner”, p.123, A&C Black

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• An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.

  Paulo Freire

  Commitment, Reality, Reflection

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• Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Eye, Doubt

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (10 March 1914), quoted in "The Curious History of Relativity" by Jean Eisenstaedt, (p. 126), 2006.

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• Nevertheless, the Tenth Commandment-'Thou shalt not covet'-recognizes that making money and owning things could become selfish activities. But it is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but love of money for its own sake. The spiritual dimension comes in deciding what one does with the wealth. How could we respond to the many calls for help, or invest for the future, or support the wonderful artists or craftsmen whose work also glorifies God, unless we had first worked hard and used our talents to create the necessary wealth?

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Money, Selfish

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution with dimensions that we don't usually think about very much.

  Ross Garnaut

  Heart, Thinking, Income Distribution

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