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“What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.”
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“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
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“We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after #‎ death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of #‎ dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.”
Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.82, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
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“To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine.A splendid night it was . . . .In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet”
Source : Li Po, “A Mountain Revelry”
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“My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.”
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“Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...”
Source : "Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush". 1869.
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“What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?”
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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”
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“See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.”
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“It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.”
Source : Leopold von Ranke (1840). “The ecclesiastical and political history of the popes of Rome during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries”
