"I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

L.A. Paul

#Reality Quotes #Space Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“What difference is there in the color of the soul?”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.460, ShandonPress
“Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert”
“The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.”
“To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.”

Source : Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.262, The New Press
“..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.”
“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.”
“Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.”
“I can not forget Melina Mercouri in black dress at 'Never on Sunday'.”

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