Boris Sidis Quotes
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.
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You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
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I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
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I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
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Spend at least an hour today giving your fullest gift, whatever that is for today, so that when you go to sleep at night you know you couldn't have lived your day with more courage, creativity, and giving.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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Though the favourites of the Gods die young, they also live eternally in the company of Gods.
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Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.
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i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.
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There is at least one more atheism left; it is by its very nature a belligerent form that wants to spread far and wide by propagating itself though books, TV, and other media.
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The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!
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Stuart Davis.. ..is one of but few, who realized his canvas as a.. ..two-dimensional surface plane.
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Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.
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Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
