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• Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

  Donna Summer

  Mind, Able, Incredibles

  "Donna Summer Revealed Her #1 Sex Fantasy & U Won’t Believe What She Said!". Penthouse Interview, www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com. September 13, 2015.

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• Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Power, Destiny, Mind

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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• Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Elbert Hubbard (1914). “So Here Then Cometh Pig-pen Pete; Or, Some Chums of Mine”

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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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• But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.

  Bliss Perry

  Art, Philosophy, Lakes

  Bliss Perry (1916). “Fishing with a Worm”

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• The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.

  Rod Liddle

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Real, Atheism, Morality

  "Atheism: Questions and Answers". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

  Frank O'Hara

  Intangible Quality, Events, Details

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.500, Univ of California Press

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• But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Beautiful, Book, Blessing

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• The world worlds, and is more fully in being than the tangible and perceptible realm in which we believe ourselves to be at home...By the opening up of a world, all things gain their lingering and hastening, their remoteness and nearness, their scope and limits. In a world's worlding is gathered that spaciousness out of which the protective grace of the gods is granted and withheld. Even this doom of the god remaining absent is a way in which the world worlds...All coming to presence...keeps itself concealed to the last.

  Martin Heidegger

  Believe, Home, Opening Up

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• Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Language, Appearance, Falsehood

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• The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can overcome almost every tangible obstacle of communication, he can travel, buy books and periodicals, and bring within the range of his attention almost any known fact of the world.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, Communication, Men

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile.

  Paul Allen

  Book, Firsts, Done

  "Paul Allen: He talks Trail Blazers, Microsoft, 'The Social Network'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. April 19, 2011.

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• If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

  Cindy Gallop

  Together, World, Way

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• So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Character, Society

  "Aratra Pentelici: Six Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, Given Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870".

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• It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

  Michael Bergin

  Stars, Hell, Certain

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• If more girls are educated, all of India stands to gain. The Girl Rising campaign aims to address that through various innovative initiatives that will not only help create awareness but also create a tangible platform to effect change.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Girl, India, Campaigns

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• Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

  PZ Myers

  Excuse, Absence, Importance

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• A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.

  Brandon Lee

  Art, Strong, Dad

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• Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

  Billie Jean King

  Winning, Cooking, Generations

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Sep 19, 2010

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• The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Land, People, Desire

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.97, Thomas Nelson

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• I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

  Luke Kirby

  Class, Woodworking, Way

  "Luke Kirby’s Character Curveball". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

  Faye Dunaway

  Differences, Effort, Records

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• Every skill, every talent, every capacity, and every ability of the mind are really the Soul-action made visibly tangible.

  Joel S. Goldsmith

  Skills, Soul, Mind

  Joel S. Goldsmith (2013). “The Infinite Way”, p.60, BookBaby

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• I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.

  Twiggy

  Nice, Technology, Cds

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