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Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experien...

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Deepak ChopraThe Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverything...

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Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consis...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

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Douglas AdamsThe Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Or that other bullshit, 'I need more space.' People never quantify exactly how much space they need,...

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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E. B. WhiteThe Points Of My Compass

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have...

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Eckhart TollePracticing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...

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Away from the safety of your home, the universe was not made for your convenience.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's ...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...

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You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and ...

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I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky thi...

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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and liste...

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The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. T...

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But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one...

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Ernst MachThe Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Account of Its Development

It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are si...

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Ethan AllenReason the Only Oracle of Man or a Compendious System of Natural Religion

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos...

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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...

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Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely reveal...

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Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the pas...

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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determin...

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Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new day...

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I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one ...

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When the image is new, the world is new.

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and...

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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ...

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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...

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Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look...

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Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning...

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Georges CuvierEssay On The Theory Of The Earth

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a sma...

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This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

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The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a fe...

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Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I s...

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I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like ...

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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where pas...

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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...

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Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, l...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most ...

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or runn...

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Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

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Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you d...

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Isaac AsimovPebble in the Sky

The stars, like dust, encircle meIn living mists of light;And all of space I seem to seeIn one vast ...

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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...

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Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more...

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...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still ha...

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If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought...

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Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...

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Jack KerouacThe Portable Jack Kerouac

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stop...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...

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James Prescott JouleThe Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not pos...

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I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and l...

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Jeanette WintersonSexing the Cherry

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

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Jeanette WintersonThe World and Other Places: Stories

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life liv...

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This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 m...

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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces b...

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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

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Johannes KeplerEpitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

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There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostil...

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If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

As in the universe every atom has an effect, however minuscule, on every other atom, so that to pinc...

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John Gardner (British writer)The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do res...

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She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we...

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John Green (author)Turtles All the Way Down

I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star ...

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Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to ...

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to f...

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It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...

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Jon StewartEarth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Provi...

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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

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Joseph FourierThe Analytical Theory of Heat

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled b...

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The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in...

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It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was someth...

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Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93...

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Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

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Lynn MargulisMicrocosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who wi...

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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and ...

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All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, ...

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Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to...

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