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• Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body. It's not only illegal, it's immoral.

  Mark Danner

  Mind, Body, Nervous

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

  Rebecca Miller

  Book, World, Starting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

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• We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher it, but to penetrate it, to become part of it, similar to the way every student becomes part of a teacher's texture. That's how I see our [with Frank Moore Cross] two differing approaches.

  Hershel Shanks

  Teacher, Two, Trying

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Attitude, Men

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.16, Liturgical Press

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• Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece of software! In short, the political intelligence of war and the political intelligence of society no longer penetrate the techno-scientific world.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Fate, Political

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

  Sholem Asch

  Resilience, Patterns, Flesh

  Sholem Asch (1946). “East River”

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• So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

  Bruno Schulz

  Soul, Trying, Depth

  Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski (1990). “Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose”, Fromm Intl

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• You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction-no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Eye, Boys, Blue

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

  Elia Kazan

  People, Cameras, Microscopes

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• The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine...In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Reality, Vision, Roles

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• Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

  Terence McKenna

  Touching, Would Be, Able

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• The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

  Laozi

  Breathing, World, Stuff

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• If the music does not penetrate the heart, the soul, the mind, and the body... Then you ain't gon' feel it.

  Peter Tosh

  Heart, Soul, Mind

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• If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: time.com

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• So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But my father decided pretty soon to, if necessary, to surrender on his own responsibility when the British or Americans penetrate the German positions.

  Manfred Rommel

  Father, Responsibility, Winning

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• Architecture
  is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
  we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
  human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
  beautiful context for life's drama.

  Frank Gehry

  Beautiful, Drama, Believe

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Body, Asana, Layers

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• We learn to pray by praying. One can devote countless hours to examining the experiences of others, but nothing penetrates the human heart as does a personal fervent prayer and its heaven sent response.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Prayer, Heart, Heaven Sent

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• Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Heart, Light

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• Every person, every place and every action is qualified by this association with the unconditional; it penetrates every moment of daily life and sanctifies it: "The Universe is God's sanctuary. Every work day is a day of the Lord, every supper is a Lord's supper, every work a fulfillment of the divine task, every joy a joy in God. In all preliminary concerns, ultimate concern is present, consecrating them."

  Paul Tillich

  Joy, Tasks, Lord's Supper

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• No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Psychics, Woven

  PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN (1964). “THE FUTURE OF MAN”

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• Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Secret Places

  Paul Klee, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Richard Verdi (1991). “Paul Klee: dialogue with nature”, Prestel Pub

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• In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Character

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.207

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• Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

  Matthew Fox

  Strong, Prayer, Heart

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