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• Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Men, People, Police

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• Some people will say, "Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you." The only answer I can give is, "You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

  Stan Lee

  Book, Mean, Play

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• To be fair, I don't have a lot of clothes and you know, Einstein had the same outfit, five different times because he didn't want to spend energy trying to decide what to wear every day. It's pointless. I have a shirt that I wear when I'm not on stage and then I have a sweaty shirt that is so disgusting it would blow your mind.

  Sam Endicott

  Blow, Clothes, Mind

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• The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

  Julian Jaynes

  Lying, Civilization, Mind

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as the simple function of one money-variable over time, with a long-term trend which increases monotonically.

  John Carroll

  Moving, Simple, Economic Models

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.135, Taylor & Francis

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• The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Children, War, Party

  "The News Quiz". BBC Radio 4, January 23, 2009.

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• Over the years, I have become convinced that Hellenism as a culture represents not a static condition of uniform sublimity mysteriously achieved and maintained as an effect of some racial advantage. Rather it should be understood as an evolving process, governed by a dynamic of change, as both language and thought underwent transformational alteration caused by a transition from orality to literacy. The instrument of change is discerned to be the invention of the Greek alphabet, at a quite late stage in the history of developing cultures.

  Eric A. Havelock

  Years, Greek, Uniforms

  "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

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• The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

  Robert Jastrow

  Fossils, Records, Development

  Robert Jastrow (1967). “Red Giants and White Dwarfs: The Evolution of Stars, Planets, and Life”

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• Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.

  Mike Patton

  Angel, Guitar, Dust

  "Dangerous Jokers". Nieuwe Revu Magazine, May 17-24, 1995.

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• Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.

  Asher Peres

  Book, Intellectual, Lasts

  "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 26-27), 1995.

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• It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Development, Able, Imagine

  Arthur Cecil Pigou (1948). “The Economics of Welfare”, p.8, Transaction Publishers

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• Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

  Flora Thompson

  Regret, Past, Views

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• All things, all circumstances that occur outside ourselves, on the stage of this world, are exclusively the reflection of what we carry within. With good reason then, we can solemnly declare that the 'exterior is the reflection of the interior.' When someone changes internally and if that change is radical, then circumstances, life and the external also change.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Reflection, World, Reason

  Samael Aun Weor (2013). “Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology: The Gnostic Method of Real Spiritual Awakening”, p.9, Glorian Publishing

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• If modern design moved the stage picture away from the specific, tangible, illusionistic world of Romanticism and Realism into a generalized, theatrical, and poetic realm in which the pictorial image functioned as an extension of the playwright's themes and structures (a metanarrative), then postmodern design is a dissonant reminder that no single point of view can predominate, even within a single image.

  Arnold Aronson

  Views, Design, World

  Arnold Aronson (2005). “Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography”, p.14, University of Michigan Press

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• Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Education, Unity, Growth

  George Trumbull Ladd (1899). “Essays on the Higher Education”

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• Curiously, ghosts are rarely if ever seen in the nude. They appear fully clothed, and may even change clothing on subsequent appearances. They may change their form, to appear as they looked at different stages of their lives. Unless someone out there knows of an extoplasmic department store on the spiritual plane, we have to wonder, "Where do the clothes and accessories come from?

  Loyd Auerbach

  Spiritual, Clothes, Accessories

  Loyd Auerbach (2005). “Hauntings and Poltergeists: A Ghost Hunter's Guide”, p.77, Ronin Publishing

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• The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

  George P. Bush

  Weed, Way, Overwhelming

  "A Conversation with George P. Shultz". Interview with Richard Haass, www.cfr.org. January 29, 2013.

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• Turning the pages of scriptural history from beginning to end, we learn of the ultimate pioneer-even Jesus Christ. His birth was foretold by the prophets of old; His entry upon the stage of life was announced by an angel. His life and His ministry have transformed the world. . . . May we ever follow Him.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Angel, Pioneers

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• As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Light

  Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

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• Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!

  Eric Bibb

  Song, Thoughtful, Swings

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• If you create the stage setting and it is grand, everyone who enters will play their part.

  Morris Lapidus

  Play, Settings, Ifs

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• do i have political views? you bet! i think the best way to express them is in your work, and then get the hell off the stage

  Brian De Palma

  Thinking, Views, Political

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• There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.

  John Newcombe

  Kids, Blood, Over You

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• I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.

  Conan O'Brien

  Waiting, Guy, Republican

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