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• A friend of mine who was a founding father of the Church of Satan, who later I compared notes with, said when he was a kid, he too managed to get into Sallys Nude Ranch, and in the corral he saw his Sunday school teacher!!! That was a real epiphany for him. From that moment on he was a Satanist.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Teacher, Father, Real

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• Change is an action not just an epiphany!

  Garrison Wynn

  Action

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• I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

  Orson Scott Card

  Believe, Thinking, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Love, Believe, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.

  Inio Asano

  Ideas, Waiting, Body

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• In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first published Euler gives no proof. In place of a proof, he offers an inductive argument: he verifies the relation in a variety of special cases. There is little doubt that he also discovered the theorem, as many of his other results, inductively.

  George Polya

  Numbers, Discovery, Giving

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• It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

  Paul Dirac

  Successful, Discovery, Goes On

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• In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Defeat, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.152, Macmillan

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• I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind of miss it. When you’re 14, you’re basically on drugs all the time - the hormones in your body are so crazy. But I really loved and appreciated the intensity of that. And you’re experiencing everything for the first time, so everything feels like an epiphany. And, like, I really liked the experience of having a crush, because I was like, this is my thing and it doesn’t have to do with you and you’re just some dummy boy for me to project on.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Crush, Crazy, Boys

  "At 18, Tavi Gevinson Is a Fashion Veteran—and a Broadway Rookie". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.thecut.com. August 10, 2014.

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• If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?

  Bill McKibben

  Offering, Order, Television

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• To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.

  Dan Simmons

  Sex, Pain, Mistake

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.403, Spectra

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• I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

  Mary Meeker

  Apples, Ipods, Investment

  "The Indomitable Mary Meeker". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

  Sam Horn

  People, Want, Information

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• The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else by the scruff of the neck practically _constantly... Contentedly adrift in the cosmos, were you?... That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Letting Go, Perfect, Religion

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• I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

  Diane Paulus

  People, Levels, Grassroots

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

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• Synchronicities, epiphanies, peak, and mystical experiences are all cases in which creativity breaks through the barriers of the self and allows awareness to flood through the whole domain of consciousness. It is the human mind operating, for a moment, in its true order and moving through orders of increasing subtlety, reaching past the source of mind and matter into creativity itself.

  F. David Peat

  Moving, Creativity, Past

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• This is the world. I don't really believe in hell or heaven or an after life at all, I believe this is it. It can be a paradise for you, if you've got the right mindset. Or it can be a total nightmare. The song is just about remembering these moments of, you know, these epiphanies or magical moments of clarity that I think everybody has at some point in their life, often, while they're taking acid or something like that, or while they're doing really intense yoga.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Yoga, Believe

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most people you'd tell "I'm gonna be a musician," they'd say, "you're crazy, you're gonna starve, you're gonna be poor, a drug addict, go to jail, you'll never make it, there's too much competition, it's a terrible business," etc. But my chorus teacher in high school said, "you've got what it takes to be a really good professional musician, you should consider it." That was an epiphany for me. So I thought, well, maybe I can help somebody, too.

  Billy Joel

  Teacher, Crazy, School

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Change, Becoming, Contradiction

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• Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

  Kim Stanley

  Mountain, Moments

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• We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory.

  Barack Obama

  Victory, President, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• I think that what I learned then, I didn't know I was learning. I just knew that I was very privileged to see somebody who was a writer, a great poet, and very smart-faced. Suddenly Pasolini becomes a director, so he has to invent cinema. It was like watching the invention of cinema. But I found out that Pasolini taught me a lot. It was, especially, the kind of respect that he had for reality. He had kind of epiphanies in his movies, like when a moment becomes full of grace, and it is like as if it was the most important moment in the life of a character.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the biggest shift has been in realizing how much more we are creating our life than we realize. That was sort of the epiphany to me.

  Lauren Bowles

  Thinking, Creating, Realizing

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• I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

  Donna Tartt

  Laughter, Light, Secret

  Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.255, Hachette UK

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