"The rational is apprehended through the intellect, however, the intellect is not found in the region of the rational; the intellect is as the eye and the rational as the colors."

-- Nicholas of Cusa

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“I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.”
“That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.”
“Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.”

Source : George Gamow (1970). “A Star Called the Sun”
“But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.”

Source : Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade
“But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.
“Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.”
“The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.”
“It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.”

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