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• It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world.

  Gautama Buddha

  Long, Mind, World

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• When I got the job I thought about her a lot. Not only was I getting a great job in a really good movie, but it was with Lindsay Lohan. She's so famous and I don't have any of that, I have never experienced that kind of intense scrutiny that she's under, so of course I wondered what it would be like acting opposite her. I can tell you that it's like being with The Beatles. You cannot fathom the kind of attention she gets. It's mind boogling.

  Chris Pine

  Jobs, Opposites, Good Movie

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

  Max Fisher

  Horse, War, Technology

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Suffering, Roles, Gestures

  Heinrich Zimmer (2013). “Philosophies of India”, p.533, Routledge

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• I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably because they're afraid of dying at some point. I know my parents don't sleep much. I know that I used to be able to sleep until noon when I was younger. I couldn't fathom staying in bed until ten now. I wouldn't know what to do unless there's a football game on.

  George Clooney

  Football, Sleep, Games

  "George Clooney: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 13, 2011.

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• The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

  Ron Suskind

  Son, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Some people never know that they happen, some people never know that they had a shot to know whatever it is their dream is because they were in the wrong mental spot. But if you believe in God, or you believe in some higher power, or something... because if you think about it, our brains are only meant to fathom what we see.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dream, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I simply cannot fathom the horrors of being enslaved, and the thought that children are ripped apart from their families and used year in and out for sex and hard labor under the threat of violence and death breaks my heart.

  Gillian Anderson

  Sex, Children, Heart

  "Gillian Anderson: star of SOLD On the Global Business of Selling Children for Sex". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we go, but, you know, it's hard to say. We're teetering on the edge, I would say.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Race, Years

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

  Emanuel Geibel

  Lying, Together, Alphabet

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• Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Cat, People

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot -- those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea

  Jim Butcher

  Race, Ideas, People

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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• For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.

  Bill Bryson

  Fashion, Triumph, Looks

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 14, 2014

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• We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

  Charles Darwin

  Stars, Self, Heaven

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

  Jerry Bridges

  Work Out, Way, God's Plan

  Jerry Bridges (1990). “Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Ocean, Meditation, Salt

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• The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible.

  Lewis Hyde

  Faces, Looks, Mystery

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• We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways science has not yet been able to fathom. In short, by radically seperating science from religion, we are not merely segregating two human institutions; we are fragmenting ourselves as individuals and as a society in ways that lead to deep, unresolved conflicts in terms of our view of the world, our values, and our way of life.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Views, Law, Two

  B. Alan Wallace (2004). “The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

  Paracelsus

  Magic, Secret, Reason

  Paracelsus (1951). “Paracelsus: Selected Writings”

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• One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

  Claude Monet

  Solitude, Tasks, Facts

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

  Johnny Weir

  Athlete, Games, Earth

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