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Vas Quotes

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than it's spiritual contributions to our culture Picture Quote #1

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer Picture Quote #1

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! Picture Quote #1

Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? Picture Quote #1

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited Picture Quote #1

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent Picture Quote #1

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A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine Picture Quote #1

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it Picture Quote #1

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard Picture Quote #1

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the Earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the signs of Allah Picture Quote #1

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world Picture Quote #1

There is a vast difference between sins of infirmity and those of presumption, as vast as between inadvertency and deliberation Picture Quote #1

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Atching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities Picture Quote #1

That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little Picture Quote #1

Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed Picture Quote #1

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them - almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men Picture Quote #1

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences Picture Quote #1

The illustrations were woodcuts, executed with that crude haste to see the finished product that marks the amateur. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals Picture Quote #1

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This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star Picture Quote #1

All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind Picture Quote #1

The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal Picture Quote #1

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc Picture Quote #1

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors Picture Quote #1

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks Picture Quote #1

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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product Picture Quote #1

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent Picture Quote #1

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas Picture Quote #1

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection Picture Quote #1

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around Picture Quote #1

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive Picture Quote #1

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The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than it's spiritual contributions to our culture (Vas Quotes) If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer (Vas Quotes) Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! (Vas Quotes) Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch? (Vas Quotes) Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited (Vas Quotes) What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent (Vas Quotes) A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine (Vas Quotes) How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it (Vas Quotes) You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard (Vas Quotes) When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the Earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the signs of Allah (Vas Quotes) But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world (Vas Quotes) There is a vast difference between sins of infirmity and those of presumption, as vast as between inadvertency and deliberation (Vas Quotes) Atching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities (Vas Quotes) That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little (Vas Quotes) Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed (Vas Quotes) Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them - almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men (Vas Quotes) The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences (Vas Quotes) The illustrations were woodcuts, executed with that crude haste to see the finished product that marks the amateur. True pornography is given us by vastly patient professionals (Vas Quotes) This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star (Vas Quotes) All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more than in health, susceptible to the influence of particular states of the mind (Vas Quotes) The commerce of a free people is many times more valuable than that of slaves. Freemen produce and consume vastly more than slaves. They have therefore more to buy and more to sell. Hence the free states have a direct pecuniary interest in the civil freedom of all the other states. Commerce between free and slave states is not reciprocal or equal (Vas Quotes) American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc (Vas Quotes) By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors (Vas Quotes) Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That’s how I get my kicks (Vas Quotes) Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product (Vas Quotes) Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent (Vas Quotes) I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas (Vas Quotes) I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection (Vas Quotes) I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around (Vas Quotes) I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive (Vas Quotes)

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