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• Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature.

  John Daido Loori

  Expression, Clear, Buddha Nature

  John Daido Loori (2009). “The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans”, p.222, Shambhala Publications

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• I’ve always tried to find God in lots of different things, whether that’s been drugs, women, etc, etc… But all those things are tangible and they exist and you can see them and you can feel them. Music doesn’t exist, physically. Yet is commands ever facet of my personality and it has the power to command people how to feel on a physical level, uncontrollably. And I find that so fascinating.

  Matthew Healy

  People, Personality, Drug

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• Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.

  Anne Wilkes Tucker

  Sex, Men, Facts

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• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, Dream, Optimistic

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• Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

  Annie Lobert

  Love Is, Promise, Action

  "Sex-trafficking survivor: The truth about Super Bowl and sex" by Annie Lobert, www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2015.

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• The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

  James A. Baldwin

  Dream, Real, People

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• This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

  Freya Stark

  Lying, Rivers, Imagination

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

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• Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

  Edward Abbey

  Real, Journey, Hiking

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• I don't see that there is a credible threat for American action - the rhetoric of the U.S. President is too vague, very amorphous. I don't see that Obama's words will be translated into more tangible intentions and therefore this is probably why the Iranians don't take it seriously. They speak out against it and they dismiss it.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Israel, Speaks Out, President

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• We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

  Nina Blackwood

  Journey, Rocks, Together

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• There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Reality, Mood, Skip

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical presence left the planet. Working consciously with such an in-my-face overwhelmingly painful loss, I was able to process it to the point of accepting that although my relationship with her would be different, I could still sense and celebrate that there was no separation between our spirits. Being present and open to each stage of grief eventually led to her visiting me in my dreams and a tangible sense of her presence.

  Michael Beckwith

  Mother, Dream, Grief

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

  Toni Morrison

  Butterfly, Reeds, Absence

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

  Audre Lorde

  Dream, Names, Ideas

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others.

  Pascal Mercier

  Cutting, Missing, Important

  Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

  Dan Brown

  Vaccines, Medicine, Space

  "Angels and Demons". Book by Dan Brown, 2000.

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• Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

  Jodi Picoult

  Matter, Elise, Persons

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Since it took up office, the Commission which I lead has pursued a clear policy: we need less interference from Brussels when it comes to the things that Member States can deal with better on their own. That is why we no longer regulate oil cans or showerheads, but concentrate instead on what we can do better together rather than alone - such as tackling the refugee crisis or securing our external borders. Only in that way can we make people feel that Europe makes a tangible difference.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Europe, Oil, Differences

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

  Zoe Saldana

  Art, New York, Kids

  "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.

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• I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone , it was tangible...something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.

  Norma Fox Mazer

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

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• There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Silly, Effort

  Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.39, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.

  Richard Connell

  Thinking, Light, Evil

  Richard Connell (2006). “The Most Dangerous Game”, p.5, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like a different kind of existence. In my life, for some of the time, I am in an alternative world, which I enter through day-dreaming or imagination. That world seems as real to me as the more tangible one of relationships and work, cars and taxes. I don't know that they're much different from each other.

  John Marsden

  Dream, Jobs, Real

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Elude Us

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