Geoffrey West Quotes
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Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.
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My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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Men don't hear women.
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I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.
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Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
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We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.
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The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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p. v; Preface first edition
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Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.
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Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
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Everything around us is scale dependent. It's woven into the fabric of the universe.
