Toba Beta  - Quotes

 No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define it for you. 

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Alan Wilson Watts  - Quotes

 To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is about 4,320,000 years). The fact that the wise men of India have not been concerned with technological applications of this knowledge arises from the circumstance that technology is but one of innumerable ways of applying it. 

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Alan Wilson Watts  - Quotes

 We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. 

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Kurt Vonnegut  - Quotes

 What is my definition of jazz? 'Safe sex of the highest order. 

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Alan Wilson Watts  - Quotes

 The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. 

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John Dewey  - Quotes

 Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account. 

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Socrates  - Quotes

 The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. 

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Aristotle  - Quotes

 Wit is educated insolence. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 We don't define the unlimited. 

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Madeleine L'Engle  - Quotes

 An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. 

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Alan Wilson Watts  - Quotes

 Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. 

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Muhammad Yunus  - Quotes

 Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all. 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....]



Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
 

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