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• The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Real, Being Alone, Creativity

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• Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, Vision, Faces

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Singularity theory is something that I do believe will come to pass, sooner or later, although whether or not in our lifetime I don't know, and I'm not sitting around waiting for my father to be resurrected. Readers probably have the impression from the book that I'm a lot more a of a techno kook than I actually am. It became a convenient fulcrum in the story, sort of a kaleidoscope through which to address religious and spiritual questions.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Spiritual, Religious, Father

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some people believe that everyone will experience judgment day. But it's my understanding that the Judgment Day or Rapture that I'm going to experience, as a nonbeliever, is not going to be the good part. That's the essential difference between the Singularity and what we're usually told about the fate of our eternal souls.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Believe, Fate, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We need to deal with three things that are important: first, we need a very deep reconsideration of how we are dealing with the economy. Second, there must be a very deep reconsideration of our way of life. We cannot simply adopt American-style consumer culture. To Islamize that is to de-Islamize Islam.Thirdly, it is important for us to understand the economy and the environment are common challenges for everyone. This is where the singularity of Islamic principles needs to join the universal values that we share with others.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islamic, Challenges, Style

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

  Brendon Burchard

  Meaningful, Focus And Concentration, Challenges

  Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Space, Law

  Stephen W. Hawking (2003). “The Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe”, New Millenium

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• My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Vegetarianism, Flesh, Vegan

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Important, Identity

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• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Lying, Years

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Light, Progress, Meat

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• 1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

  Edward Witten

  Moon, Nasty, Newton

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• Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Fighting, Artist, Issues

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• It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.

  Forrest Griffin

  Girlfriend, Cancer, Rip

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• The Armenians will willingly harbor
  revolutionaries, arrange for their entertainment and the furthering of their ends. The pride of race brings about many singularities and prompts the Armenians to prey on missionaries, Jesuits, consuls and European traveler with rapacity and ingratitude. The poor Armenians will demand assistance in a loud tone, yet will seldom give thanks for a donation. Abuse of Consular officers and missionaries is only a part of the stock-in-trade of the extra-Armenian press.

  Mark Sykes

  Pride, Race, Giving

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• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

  Stephanie Mills

  Responsibility, Artist, Discipline

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• What happens is that as the scripts are rewritten and re-edited in order to make the story more compelling, you sometimes end up with what you could call a time singularity - where there's no way for everything that happens to happen in real time. It's something that you need to wink at.

  Michael Loceff

  Real, Order, Needs

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moving, Eye, Axes

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

  Roland Barthes

  Order, Ideas, Events

  Roland Barthes (1973). “Mythologies”

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• Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

  Tertullian

  Father, Son, Numbers

  Tertullian, Aeterna Press (2016). “Tertullian Collection [2 Books]”, p.62, Aeterna Press

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• Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Retirement, Age, May

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.307, Oxford University Press

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• Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Fall, Space, Black

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• Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Mind, Style

  Ambrose Bierce (2015). “A Cynic Looks at Life”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Night, Light

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.61, Routledge

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