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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.


Benjamin Whorf

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VIRGINIA WOOLF Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has dec...
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The moment you say , , or , the skies will open for you and the non- physical energies b...
ESTHER HICKS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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JEAN PIAGET He who knows the past well can best explain the present and can tell the probable certainties and un...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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DARREL RAY She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...
ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo...
KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
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MICHAEL W. SMITH I see application every time I study the Bible. And this particular study provides a good summation ...
PHIL BROWN What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
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JAIME ALLISON PARKER That's certainly under review at the present time.
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JACK LONDON We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
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GEORGE MARTIN At the present time there is not enough consensus amongst the players about how we can reach this am...
PETER MANDELSON I believe it would be a waste of time to continue with the present application for a reasons excepti...
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GERTRUDE EDERLE Time creates history. Meditation creates the moment.
MA JAYA SATI BHAGAVATI Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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STEPHEN RICHARDS We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transf...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Great countries are those that produce great people.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pai...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN We moralize among ruins.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for mon...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He has not a single redeeming defect.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, tha...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, ...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK Love well, whip well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A majority is always better than the best repartee.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an e...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Finality is not the language of politics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI In politics, nothing is contemptible.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI