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• Religion is the vision of something which stands beyond, behind, and within, the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realised; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Giving, Waiting

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Taylor Markham," said Raffaela, "I'm going to say a prayer for you." And although I wanted to mock her and explain I didn't believe in anything or anyone, I realised that no one had ever prayed for me before. So I let her.

  Melina Marchetta

  Prayer, Believe, Said

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• And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We're tiny. We don't matter. We're here for a second and then gone the next. We're a sneeze in the life of the universe.

  Danny Wallace

  Stars, People, Gone

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Danny Wallace and the Centre of the Universe”, p.6, Random House

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• I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a new era in society will commence from the moment that aerial navigation is familiarly realised. . . . I feel perfectly confident, however, that this noble art will soon be brought home to man's convenience, and that we shall be able to transport ourselves and our families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water, and with a velocity of from 20 to 100 miles per hour.

  George Cayley

  Art, Home, Men

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• In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

  Tom Stoppard

  Birthday, Party, Play

  "Tom Stoppard: Information is light" by Tom Stoppard, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2013.

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• Throughout the history of the Internet, most of the innovation has come as a by-product of efforts to facilitate communication within social groups of various kinds (academics, bloggers, peer-to-peer file sharing), rather than as the result of profit-oriented investment. Rather than taking the lead, the business and government sectors have adopted innovations developed in Internet communities, and realised significant productivity gains as a result.

  John Quiggin

  Communication, Government, Effort

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• Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

  Joe Strummer

  Power, Age, Authority

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• Food is, for me, for everybody, a very sexual thing and I think I realised that quite early on. I still cannot exaggerate how just putting a meal in front of somebody is really more of a buzz for me than anything. And I mean anything. Maybe that goes back to trying to please my dad, I don't know. It's like parenting in a way I suppose.

  Nigel Slater

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

  "While Other Boys in His Class Were Reading Shoot! Nigel Subscribed to Cordon Bleu Magazine". www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2003.

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• What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

  Steig Larsson

  Heart, Infatuation, Moments

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• The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing that which you would ideally have done (painted, say, or written unpublishable poetry) but which, in fact, you have no wish to do. People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted; whereas the life they really want is precisely a compound of all those thwarting circumstances.

  Geoff Dyer

  Lying, Perfect, People

  Geoff Dyer (2012). “Out of Sheer Rage: In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence”, p.81, Canongate Books

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• There are no risk in Love, as you'll find out for yourself. People have been searching for and finding each other for thousands of years. Suddenly, he realised that the might be wrong. There was always a risk, a single risk: that one person might meet with more thatn one Soulmate in the same incarnation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soulmate, Years, People

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• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Photography, Writing, Lions

  "Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's best shot" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.

  Julius Evola

  Fall, Light, Order

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• Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Destiny, Years

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.308, Bantam

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• Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Days Like This, Envy, Mind

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• So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

  John Marsden

  People, Different, Stories

  John Marsden (2001). “The Night is for Hunting”, p.201, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Men, Self

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.

  David A. Aaker

  Business, Innovation, Needs

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• History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.

  A. L. Rowse

  Thinking, Essence, History

  A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge

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• I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Beautiful, Color, Luxury

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• The most important part of a RPG is the player feeling like they are taking the role of a character in a fully realised fantasy world. They can explore, visit various towns and places, talk to people, customise their character, collect various items, and defeat monsters. The story is not the focus of the experience and is only there to make the atmosphere of the fantasy world more interesting and engaging during the course of the game.

  Yuji Horii

  Character, Player, Games

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• Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  Isaac Hayes

  Real, Opportunity, Village

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

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• I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We cant express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

  Bob Hoskins

  Men, Emotional, Expression

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• When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  War, Men, Strategy

  Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (2007). “A Book of Five Rings: With the Unfettered Mind”

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• Remember the words of Christ: "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Jesus, Heart, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.26, editionNEXT.com

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