Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 4661.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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The person who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor to find much fun in life.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invest the most insignificant object with any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see.
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The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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