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The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
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The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.
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The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
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The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had.
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The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
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The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
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The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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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.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
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