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• The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Age, Levels

  Interview with Claudia Dreifus. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Drawing, Brain, Tools

  "A Brain Comes Full Circle" by Neil Strauss, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 2000.

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• When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.

  Kenneth Coutts-Smith

  Usual, Revealing, Imagery

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• What possibilities exist here? What is presenting itself to me IN THIS MOMENT that I can use? In a very real sense, it's meditation in motion, the practical application of an esoteric practice. And it relies on the acceptance of serendipity. Serendipity, the effect of accidentally discovering something fortunate

  Tom Bergeron

  Real, Acceptance, Practice

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• We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

  Charlie Munger

  Trying, Remember, Grasping

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• Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

  William Bernbach

  Art, Creativity, Men

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• I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Teacher, Children, Home

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• That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.

  Casey Neistat

  Littles, Kind, Film

  Source: www.tvequals.com

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• I've always felt like my music would stand for itself and I would stand for myself. So I've kept my music a little bit esoteric, and I've kept the lyrics a little aloof. I try to say something important, but I don't necessarily preach.

  Kenna

  Important, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

  Jane Fonda

  Children, Loss, Soda Pop

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• Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.

  Saul Williams

  Rap, Ghetto, Ideas

  "A new beginning for the word" by Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

  Pat Metheny

  Thinking, Pieces, Difficult

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Gardening is about communication, relationships, routines and life-enrichment. Gardens are places that connect us to the seasons and the life cycle. They're a vehicle for talking about esoteric and - as far as TV goes - alien topics such as beauty and fulfilment.

  Costa Georgiadis

  Communication, Garden, Talking

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• The Kassideans or Assideans...arose either during the Captivity or soon after the restoration...The Essenians were, however, undoubtedly connected with the Temple (of Solomon), as their origin is derived by the learned Scalier, with every appearance of truth, from the Kassideans, a fraternity of Jewish devotees, who, in the language of Laurie, had associated together as 'Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.'...From the Essenians Pythagoras derived much, if not all, of the knowledge and the ceremonies with which he clothed the esoteric school of his philosophy.

  Albert Mackey

  Philosophy, School, Knights

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• In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions

  Louis MacNeice

  Laughter, Talking, Prejudice

  "Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay". Book by Louis MacNeice, 1938.

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• Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.

  Michael Bierut

  Art, Circles, Design

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

  Nick Cave

  Space, Wikipedia, Events

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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• For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

  Miguel Serrano

  Collective Unconscious, Greek, Used

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• I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

  Keith Richards

  Deliverance, Kind, Knows

  "'I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues'" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2009.

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• What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.

  Tom Robbins

  Girl, Odds, Two

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• As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Change, Encouragement, Opportunity

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• I had never done any sort of yoga before, and this epiphany was a little more esoteric. I walked into the yoga room and there was a voice from my soul that said out loud, This is it! I just knew. I just knew in that moment - I couldn't even straighten my legs. I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I couldn't put my legs up the wall in the most gentle, restorative yoga pose, and yet, I knew.

  Brad Willis

  Wall, Yoga, Voice

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

  John Hodgman

  Book, Oddities, Decision

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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