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• Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Reality, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.29, Prabhat Prakashan

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• God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Land, Space

  "Jivan-smitri", 2013.

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• The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

  James Trefil

  Nature, Taken, Law

  James S. Trefil (2003). “The Nature of Science: An A-Z Guide to the Laws and Principles Governing Our Universe”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Nature, Design, Deities

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 22 (1796)

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• Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

  Dogen

  Life, Moon, Light

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• If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

  John Seely Brown

  Learning, Knowledge, Technology

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• I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

  Beck

  Song, Work, Thinking

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• Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

  George Orwell

  World, Slavery, May

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will.

  Isaac Asimov

  Technology, Hands, Independence

  "Past, Present, and Future".

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• When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Distance, Smartphones

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• I have to admit that more and more lately, the whole idea of jazz as an idiom is one that I've completely rejected. I just don't see it as an idiomatic thing any more...To me, if jazz is anything, it's a process, and maybe a verb, but it's not a thing. It's a form that demands that you bring to it things athat are valuable to you, that are personal to you. That, for me, is a pretty serious distinction that doesn't have anything to do with blues, or swing, or any of these other things that tend to be listed as essentials in order for music to be jazz with a capital J.

  Pat Metheny

  Swings, Order, Ideas

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• I don't know that many chords. I'd be loaded if I knew that many. But that's not my aim. My aim is to move from one vein to the other without any trouble. The biggest thing to me is keeping a feeling, regardless what you play. So many cats lose their feeling at various times, not through the whole tune, but at various times, and it causes them to have to build up and drop down, and you can feel it.

  Wes Montgomery

  Moving, Cat, Play

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• After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole world. It gave me untold confidence.

  Boy George

  Drug, Half, World

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• The albums I did around that time probably wouldn't have been the same without Ecstacy. The first three Soft Cell albums... were all really albums that were just done around Ecstacy and the whole E feeling.

  Marc Almond

  Cells, Drug, Feelings

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• Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

  John Wayne

  Weather, Littles, Oscars

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• By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Dancing, Peers

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• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  Lajos Kossuth

  World, Radical Change, Management

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.1

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• Like students of art who walk around a great statue, seeing parts and aspects of it from each position, but never the whole, we must walk mentally around time, using a variety of approaches, a pandemonium of metaphor.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Art, Students

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophy, Caring

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• If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

  Rebecca West

  Time, Race, Ideas

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• I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

  Bertrand Russell

  Faith, Religious, Loss

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.30, Routledge

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• What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Sensual, Fusion

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• Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Soul, Intellectual

  Thomas Carlyle, Edwin Markham (1842). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.215

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• I'm washed, I'm forgiven, I'm whole, and I'm healed. I'm cleansed and I'm glory bound. I am only a sojourner on the earth.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Earth

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.147, Destiny Image Publishers

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