Quotes 21 till 40 of 48.
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Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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Man is an amphibian who lives simultaneously in two worlds-the given and the home-made, the world of matter, life and consciousness and the world of symbols.
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Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
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My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
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On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
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Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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