"in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes……" — Wallace Stevens

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• It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
• It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things… — Gary Busey
• Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that,… — Nick Cave
• In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult. — Ted Allen
• We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains… — Herman Bavinck
• There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it… — Thomas Huxley
• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a… — Caitlin Moran
• Ideology is not the product of thought; it is the habit or the ritual of showing respect for certain formulas… — Lionel Trilling
• Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling… — Gary Crowley
• As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
• Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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