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Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra
I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all… — Laurie R. King
There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. — George Eliot
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm… — Charles Frazier
It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead… — Jack Kerouac
Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, theyâ€™re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, letâ€™s make up.… — Jerry Seinfeld
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain… — Viktor E. Frankl
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the… — Romain Rolland
The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various… — Roland Barthes
In mythos and fairy tales, deities and other great spirits test the hearts of humans by showing up in various forms that disguise their divinity.… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the… — Rebecca West
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I… — Lauren Willig
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality — Amartya Sen
They wouldnâ€™t have believed me, and if they had they would have wanted me to explain. And I had no explanation, no answers. When youâ€™re… — Jennifer Weiner
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over,… — Muriel Spark
Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad. — Natsuki Takaya
Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something… — Italo Calvino
Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and… — Jane Austen

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