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“Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.”
Source : Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”
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“It's neurotic fat women who hate me--they're stupid”
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“One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.”
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“The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices.”
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“What is appealing is the idea of attaining the unattainable and learning from it. Once you obtain a fantasy it becomes a reality, and that reality is not as exciting as your fantasy. Through the fantasies you learn to appreciate your own realities.”
Source : "'Fantasy Island's' Ricardo Montalban Dead at 88", www.foxnews.com. January 15, 2009. 
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“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end”
Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.
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“Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.”
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“However, the wind only changes the picture temporarily, the substrate remains the same and sooner or later the same picture surfaces once again.”
