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    The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

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    The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

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    The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

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    The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

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    The spiritual substance from which comes all visible wealth is never depleted. It is right with you all the time and responds to your faith in it and your demands on it.

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    The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

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    The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

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    The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

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    The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

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    The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within her which appears to decay and to grow old and to be useless she changes into herself, and again makes other new things from these very same, so that she requires neither substance from without nor wants a place into which she may cast that which decays. She is content then with her own space, and her own matter, and her own art.

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    The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.

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    The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

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    The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

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    The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

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    The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

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    ..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

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    The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

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    Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.

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    Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.

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    THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.

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    Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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    Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

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    To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

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    Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

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    Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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    Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician.  It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants.  Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion, he or she becomes more attuned to God.

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    To experience relationships of substance and depth requires approaching and entering into relationships with consciousness and concern for the other.

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    Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast.

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    Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

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    We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

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    We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

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    We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

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    We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

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    We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic.

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    Weed's not as bad as everything else... 'cause weed is a background substance. You know what I mean, you can smoke some herb and still function. You ain't crisp... but you'll function.

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    We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

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    We think there’s someplace other than here to get to—that’s what drives the whole pursuit. Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being, pure consciousness. This is actually the very substance of your own self and being.

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    We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

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    When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.

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    When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.

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    We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.

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    What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

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    What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening.

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    What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

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    Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

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    What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

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    Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

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    Within each and every one of us is a divine power that needs no substance or anything external to know bliss.

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    Words enable us to transfer our thoughts from inside our own mind into the mind of another. They have the power to alter history, to describe the past, and to bring meaning and substance to the present.

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    With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.