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• An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Optimistic, Artist, Realist

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• Your inner-most dominant thoughts become your outer-most tangible reality.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Reality, Intellectual, Dominant

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• Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.

  Simon Sinek

  Perfect, Perfection, Waiting

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2010

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• Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

  Jon Krakauer

  Perspective, Missing, Mountain

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the form of Origin, tastes the ephemeral glue welding us, yearning after the secret of ineluctable evolution, and wonders what this transformation will mean. In my mind, here was the best kind of art-the kind hoarded by rich and jealous collectors in their locked galleries; hidden from the eyes of the heathen masses, waiting to be shared with the ripe few

  Laird Barron

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drizzt Do'urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Loyalty, Heart, Soul

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• The UFOs do not seem to exist as tangible, manufactured objects. They do not conform to the accepted natural laws of our environment. They seem to be nothing more than transmogrifications tailoring themselves to our ability to understand. The thousands of contacts with the entities indicates that they are liars and put-on artists, the UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon.

  John A. Keel

  Liars, Artist, Law

  John A. Keel (1970). “UFO's: Operation Trojan Horse”

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• I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

  Norma Fox Mazer

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Silly, Effort

  Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.39, Penguin

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• Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.

  John Marsden

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

  Richard Connell

  Thinking, Light, Evil

  Richard Connell (2006). “The Most Dangerous Game”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

  Joyce Johnson

  Girl, Boys, Age

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.58, Penguin

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• Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

  "Vers une architecture (Towards a New Architecture)". Book by Le Corbusier, 1927.

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• What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

  Rikki Ducornet

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Fans, Talk To Me, Feels

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• We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

  Emma Watson

  Boys, Men, Trying

  United Nations Address on Gender Equality, delivered 20 September 2014

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• I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  People, Able, Helping

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• Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.

  Rick Santorum

  Christian, Things In Life, People

  "Rick Santorum calls for low-income children to suffer". Rick Santorum's speech in Ottumwa, Iowa, www.dailykos.com. November 18, 2011.

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• Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity and has no tangible value, and so I would say that gold is a speculation. But because of my fear about the potential debasing of paper money and about paper money not being a store of value, I want some exposure to gold.

  Seth Klarman

  Unique, Age, Gold

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• To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Anchors, Feels

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• I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

  Jack White

  Birthday, Beautiful, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

  George Will

  Taxation, Earning, Made

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• I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Yellow, Littles, Mysterious

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Nabokov's congeries”

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• Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity.

  Richard Matheson

  Real, Objectivity, Blood

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• I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.

  Yves Klein

  Art, Eye, Order

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