Quotes with moment-consciousness

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• The moment we put up the PayPal button, some guy donated $300. That's when we realized that if you give somebody a chance to support something on the Internet, they'll do it.

  ― Burnie Burns
  American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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• The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.

  Source:  (2005)

  ― Salman Rushdie
  Engels writer (1947 - )
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• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

  ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
  Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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• The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

  ― Ian McEwan
  English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

  ― Robert Wilson
  American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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• The moment you're born you're done for.

  ― Arnold Bennett
  British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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• The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

  ― Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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• The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

  ― Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

  ― Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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• The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.

  ― Carlton Cuse
  American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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• The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

  ― Basil Bunting
  British poet (1900 - 1985)
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• The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.

  Source: Cosmos (1980)

  ― Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

  ― Stephen Nachmanovitch
   
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• The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

  ― Mignon McLaughlin
  American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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• The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

  ― Miguel de Unamuno
  Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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• The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

  ― Bruce Vilanch
  American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

  ― Marcel Proust
  French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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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.

  ― Billy Ray Cyrus
  American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness-traveling
• neurochemistry
• astonishingly
• architecture
• relationship
• connections

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