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Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I feel totally disconnected from reality in Washington. Maybe I'm just really pretentious - in fact, I probably am - but I… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute… — Ottmar Edenhofer Copy Share Image
It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“You cannot be aware of yourself, for you are awareness itself. How can a witness witness itself? That is like trying to… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last… — Hal Rothman Copy Share Image
I find that if I interact more, the crowd gets way more into the music. We also have a full live show… — Flume Copy Share Image
I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power.… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Do not mistake me. I am not yet weak enough to yield to fearful imaginings, which are almost as absurd as illusions… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
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“A person can only be born in one place.However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked across the river to Manhattan. It was a great view. When Sadie and I had first arrived at Brooklyn House,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies];… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“...then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The New Testament is a brutal destroyer of human illusions. If you follow Jesus and don't end up dead, it appears you… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
In psychiatry there is a certain condition known as delusion of reprieve. The condemned man, immediately before his execution, gets the illusion… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm… — Ashley Nell Tipton Copy Share Image
“The flower inside the fruit that is both its parent and its child. Decadent as ancestors. The portal and that which passes.… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
One of man's important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I. Man such as we… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
“An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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