Realms Quotes - Page 28

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

Max Lerner

Struggle, Men, Religion

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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

Clare Boothe Luce

Lines, May, Mail

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Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

James Fallows

Country, Real, Moving

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The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered, we realize how the greatest joys of life lie beyond the realm of reality. The instant they are shattered we are sick with longing for the days when they flamed within us. Our fate spends itself in this succession of hope and nostalgia.

Natalia Ginzburg

Dream, Lying, Fate

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Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

James Norwood Pratt

Spiritual, Heart, Luxury

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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

James Russell Lowell

Song, Spring, Gun

James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett Hale (1902). “Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell”

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

Robertson Davies

Book, Ignorance, Stuff

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Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.

Jean M. Auel

Book, Simple, Perspective

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I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Robert Ludlum

Trying, Nuance, Behavior

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A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.

Walter Benjamin

Death, Feelings, Important

Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

Gu Cheng

Art, Feelings, Cameras

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In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

William Greider

Prison Time, Doe, Banking

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The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

Paul Davies

Majority, Example, Facts

"Life, but not as we know it" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2010.

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Why should the search for happiness be only or essentially material and mental? Aren't there untold riches too in the moral, the sentimental and the spiritual realms?

Robert Muller

Happiness, Spiritual, Riches

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Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Spiritual, Intellectual, Limits

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When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms beyond the common understanding. When the mind is pure and quiet it becomes one with the universal mind. That mind is like a mirror. The secrets of the Universe will be revealed there.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Mirrors, Meditation, Understanding

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Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Bill Dixon

Groups, Possibility, Materials

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

Music, Secret, Strange

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The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

William C. Kirby

Successful, Government, Political

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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

Eben Alexander

Glimpse, Body, Firsts

"Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is "it" or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.

Art Bell

Giving, Support, Planets

"Art Bell: Radio's Master Of The Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.

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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm.

Thomas Frank

America, Tasks, Calling

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Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

Marla Gibbs

Color, People, Black

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a world of intuition or a world of intellect...The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film... I've been trying to get there from the beginning. I'm somebody who doesn't know, somebody who's searching.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Movie, Dream, Somewhere Else

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In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

Herbert Marcuse

Culture, Pluralism, Indifference

Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.64, Routledge

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