David Abram Quotes
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I think the true rock fans are pretty loyal.
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Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.
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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.
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I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.
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Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
