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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
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We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other. We witnessed the final stages… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
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