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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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The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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The primary function of a constitution was to mark out the boundaries of governmental powers-hence in England, where there was no constitution, there were no limits (save for the effect of trail by jury) to what the legislature might do.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 182 -
The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.
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The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
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The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
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The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
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The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.
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The real trick is to make the moves in your head first, as a way of testing them out.
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The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
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