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• The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should like to state a converse: is not all magic, to the extent that it is successful, geometry?

  Rene Thom

  Successful, Reality, Space

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• 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

  Socrates

  War, Fighting, Self

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• Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Prayer, Angel, Evil

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• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Inspiration, Moral Leadership

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can't have clean Converse - I go in the dirt and run around!

  Ashley Benson

  Running, Dirty, Naughty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  Christopher Lasch

  People, Ordinary, Prejudice

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• You have been created with the ability to change the world. Every single choice you make ... every single action you take ... matters. But remember, the converse is also true. Every choice you do not make ... every action you do not take ... matters just as much.

  Andy Andrews

  Choices, World, Matter

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• Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

  John Owen

  Heart, Long, May

  John Owen (1970). “The correspondence of John Owen (1616-1683): with an account of his life and work”, Attic Pr

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• Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

  Richard G. Scott

  Father, Heaven, Feelings

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• Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

  Karen Barad

  Suffering, Desire, Matter

  "New Materialism: Interviews & Cartographies". Book by Rick Dolphijn, Iris van der Tuin, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2012.

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• The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kindness, Passion, Animal

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• For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

  Robert Schumann

  Language, Permit, Music Is

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• It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Art, Good Friend, Essentials

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.12, Random House

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• I converse with my dog through ESP

  Taylor Caldwell

  Dog, Esp, My Dog

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• So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

  John Milton

  Dream, Angel, Soul

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, Arthur Montague D'Urban Hughes (1962). “Milton: Poetry & Prose”

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• My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Ideas, Two, Minutes

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• Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting with their loud colors or whispering with their seeds; rocks snag lichen spores from the air and shelter spiders under their flanks; clouds converse with the fathomless blue and metamorphose into one another; they spill rain upon the land, which gathers in rivulets and carves out canyons.

  David Abram

  Rain, Blue, Color

  "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmolog". Book by David Abram, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Joy, Entering

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.47, Penguin

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• The advantages of philosophy? That I am able to hold converse with myself.

  Antisthenes

  Philosophy, Able, Advantage

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• Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

  Timothy Keller

  Character, Play, People

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City”, p.651, Zondervan

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• To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Blessed, Heaven

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.97

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• Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Men, Solitude, Loner

  John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260

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• A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Sex, Authority

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

  Alan Turing

  Thinking, Should Have, Long

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