Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey) Quotes
The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Pregnancy is something that I always love. It's about hope and the future and a new baby.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage.
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Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
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The most conventional romantic trope of all is that you put lovers under extreme pressure, where they have to make decisions that illuminate aspects of that bond.
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It's so funny whenever things come full circle.
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The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.
