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• Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence

  Ezra Pound

  Essence, Consciousness, Reason

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• I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.

  Laurence Sterne

  Suffering, One Day, Three

  Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne”, p.146

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• The senior wizard in a world of magic had the same prospects of long-term employment as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.

  Terry Pratchett

  Senior, Long, Magic

  "Moving Pictures". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Issues, Debate

  "Mediasaurus: the Decline of Conventional Media". Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C., April 07, 1993.

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Light, Years, Looks

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Telling”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Doe, Morality, Function

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "What Must Blacks Go Through?" by David D. Porter, articles.orlandosentinel.com. September 13, 1989.

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• As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil – not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Commitment, Oil

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• You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know, putting three Republicans in my cabinet -- something that is unprecedented -- making sure that they were invited here to the White House to talk about the economic recovery plan, all those were not designed simply to get some short-term votes. They were designed to try to build up some trust over time. And I think that, as I continue to make these overtures, over time, hopefully that will be reciprocated.

  Barack Obama

  Recovery, Thinking, White

  First Presidential Prime Time Press Conference, delivered 9 February 2009

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• Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Agreement, Challenges

  Barack Obama's comments during the press conference at the G20 summit in London, www.washingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.

  Jerry Brown

  White, House, Criminals

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• In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.

  George W. Bush

  Hate, Long, People

  "Marking Fifth Anniversary of Terror Attacks, Bush Tours 9/11 Sites". www.haaretz.com. September 11, 2006.

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• Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Age, Architecture, Spatial

  1922 De Stijl, vol.6.

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• Myth does not want to be interpreted in cosmological terms but in anthropological terms or, better, in existentialist terms.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Doe, Want, Existentialist

  Rudolf Karl Bultmann, Schubert Miles Ogden (1985). “New Testament and mythology and other basic writings”

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• We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Data, Two, Doctrine

  James Clerk Maxwell (1873). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.38

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• Theoretical physicists live in a classical world, looking out into a quantum-mechanical world. The latter we describe only subjectively, in terms of procedures and results in our classical domain.

  John Stewart Bell

  World, Quantum, Results

  "Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics". Book by John Stewart Bell, p. 29, 1987.

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• I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.

  Laura Bush

  Firsts, Laura, First Lady

  "Laura Bush Grows Into Star Role". www.cbsnews.com. June 24, 2004.

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• Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.

  Michael Badnarik

  Spiritual, Religious, Government

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• Being points beyond itself.
  Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression "being points beyond itself" may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Taken, Thinking, Expression

  "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1965.

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• The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Self, Ideas, Sufficiency

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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• For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Grace, May

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 4, l. [161]

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• Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

  William James

  Race, Two, Legs

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.

  William James

  Wall, Cost, Alive

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.

  Woody Allen

  Pain, Humor, Thinking

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