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“As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.”
Source: Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader
“As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes, my view of hospital life must be taken through my glass, and held for what it is worth. Certainly, nothing was set down in malice, and to the serious-minded party who objected to a tone of levity in some portions of the Sketches, I can only say that it is a part of my religion to look well after the cheerfulnesses of life, and let the dismals shift for themselves; believing, with good Sir Thomas More, that it is wise to "be merrie in God.”
Source: Hospital Sketches
“As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." ... In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.”
Source: On The Aesthetic Education Of Man
“As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.”
Source: The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928
“As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.”
“As nossas pequenas mandíbulas eram ridículas perante as de um réptil com quase seis metros, a nossa força, exígua; e, contudo, a mordidela humana, quando aplicada à alma, deixava uma cicatriz de que nenhum predador da Natureza era capaz.”
Source: Cem Anos de Perdão
“As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.”
“As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.”
Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous
“As noted before, ADHD is characterized by problems developing, organizing, and enacting plans in your life across time, particularly those for which there is not some sort of immediate payoff or urgency attached. Thus, you will have to pay more attention to getting started on tasks in your Daily Planner than most other people. You know what you need to do, but you need to develop a better grasp for how you don’t do things in order to more effectively tackle these barriers, which is the focus of this chapter. The first step is to make sure you have a clear idea of the steps you need to take to follow through on your plan.”
Source: The Adult ADHD Tool Kit
“As noted before, we’re unfairly biased toward what we already know, what we believe to be certain. If I believe I’m a nice guy, I will avoid situations that could potentially contradict that belief. If I believe I’m an awesome cook, I’ll seek out opportunities to prove that to myself over and over again. The belief always takes precedence. Until we change how we view ourselves, what we believe we are and are not, we cannot overcome our avoidance and anxiety. We cannot change.
In this way, “knowing yourself” or “finding yourself” can be dangerous. It can cement you into a strict role and saddle you with unnecessary expectations. It can close you off to inner potential and outer opportunities.
I say don’t find yourself. I say never know who you are. Because that’s what keeps you striving and discovering. And it forces you to remain humble in your judgements and accepting of the differences in others.”
Source: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“As noted in Chapter 4, there’s abundant evidence that presidents use their disaster-declaration
authority under the Stafford Act to aid their own reelection prospects. Presidents direct more
disaster relief to politically important states and declare more disasters in election years—and the
average number of yearly disaster declarations has been increasing over time.35 Bill Clinton still
holds the election-year record, with 75 disaster declarations in 1996; George W. Bush came in a
close second in 2004, and has declared disasters at a faster rate overall than Clinton.”
Source: The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
“As noted on Page 90 of the MKULTRA inspired KUBARK interrogation manual, 'sustained long enough, a strong fear of anything vague or unknown induces regression'. Whether that fear represents the possibility of being unemployed, being harassed daily for not complying, or a mutating virus, amongst other things, if 'sustained long enough' it begins to wear people down psychologically..”
Source: A History of Elitism, World Government & Population Control
“As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.”
Source: Centuries of Meditations
“As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.”
“As novas tecnologias tornam obsoletos os conhecimentos técnicos e máquinas já existentes. O processo de crescimento económico e as instituições inclusivas em que assenta criam perdedores e vencedores, tanto no campo político como no mercado económico. O medo da destruição criativa está, muitas vezes, na origem da oposição às instituições económicas e políticas inclusivas. (…) Não obstante o êxito e o fracasso de grupos específicos, uma lição é bem clara: os grupos poderosos rejeitam, com frequência, o progresso económico e os motores da prosperidade.”
Source: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.”
“As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955
“As NVC replaces our old patterns of defending, withdrawing or attacking in the face of judgment and criticism. We come to perceive ourselves and others, as well as our intentions and relationships, in a new light. Resistance, defensiveness, and violent reactions are minimized.”
“As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity.”
Source: A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell
“As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed.
The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts. The president does this at a high rate and at a fast pace. One attempt during the 2016 campaign to track his utterances found that 78 percent of his factual claims were false. This proportion is so high that it makes the correct assertions seem like unintended oversights on the path toward total fiction. Demeaning the world as it is begins the creation of a fictional counterworld.
The second mode is shamanistic incantation. As Klemperer noted, the fascist style depends upon “endless repetition,” designed to make the fictional plausible and the criminal desirable. The systematic use of nicknames such as “Lyin’ Ted” and “Crooked Hillary” displaced certain character traits that might more appropriately have been affixed to the president himself. Yet through blunt repetition over Twitter, our president managed the transformation of individuals into stereotypes that people then spoke aloud. At rallies, the repeated chants of “Build that wall” and “Lock her up” did not describe anything that the president had specific plans to do, but their very grandiosity established a connection between him and his audience.
The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction. The president’s campaign involved the promises of cutting taxes for everyone, eliminating the national debt, and increasing spending on both social policy and national defense. These promises mutually contradict. It is as if a farmer said he were taking an egg from the henhouse, boiling it whole and serving it to his wife, and also poaching it and serving it to his children, and then returning it to the hen unbroken, and then watching as the chick hatches.
Accepting untruth of this radical kind requires a blatant abandonment of reason. Klemperer’s descriptions of losing friends in Germany in 1933 over the issue of magical thinking ring eerily true today. One of his former students implored him to “abandon yourself to your feelings, and you must always focus on the Führer’s greatness, rather than on the discomfort you are feeling at present.” Twelve years later, after all the atrocities, and at the end of a war that Germany had clearly lost, an amputated soldier told Klemperer that Hitler “has never lied yet. I believe in Hitler.”
The final mode is misplaced faith. It involves the sort of self-deifying claims the president made when he said that “I alone can solve it” or “I am your voice.” When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that “understanding is useless, you have to have faith. I believe in the Führer.”
Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.
He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain him, especially the one called 'Christianity'.”
Source: Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
“As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.”
“As odd as it seems, the road to opportunity often has this huge sign that reads “Bridge Out.” Having ignored the sign and now finding myself laying flat on my back at the bottom of some ‘opportunity,’ I look up and wonder if the opportunity that I had was to learn what an opportunity is, and what it is not.”
“As of 1992, in fact-though the picture would have improved since then-the money that had been made since the dawn of aviation by all of this country's airline companies was zero. Absolutely zero.”
“As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.”
“As of 2015 only a dozen of the then 567 federally recognized tribal nations recognize same-sex marriage...Other tribes, however, have explicitly restricted same-sex marriage (all following the passage of DOMA), including the Navajo Nation, Cherokee Nation, Muscogee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, and Iowa Tribe. Although Congress could pass a statute that affects Indian Country Lindsay Roberson...considers it highly unlikely, given the federal government's relatively hands-off support for tribal governance.
Within the Navajo context, this issue has brought about deep debate about the nature of tradition. Joanne Barker has written about the battles over same-sex marriage in Navajo Nation (as well as Cherokee Nation). She documents how the tribal legislation bans and defense of them affirm the discourses of U.S. nationalism, especially in their Christian and right-wing conservative forms. IN these cases, the tribal nation's exercise of sovereignty and self-determination replicates the relations of domination and dispossession that resemble the U.S. treatment of Native Peoples.”
Source: Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism
“As of late, I am more of a homebody. I like having people over. You can smoke in the apartment. I'm just not into going out so much. The crowd is getting younger and younger.”
“As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.”
“As of now, ALL your opinions are rejected." - Ichigo”
“As of now, string theorists have no explanation of why there are three large dimensions as well as time, and the other dimensions are microscopic. Proposals about that have been all over the map.”
“As of now, Virat Kohli is the greatest batsman of the world”
“As of right now, I am in love with her, and that love is the biggest problem in my life.”
Source: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.”
“As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.”
“As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.”
“As of September 2020, the British mandatory curriculum broadened to include same-sex relationships, sexual assault and 'porn literacy,' and parents will no longer be able to opt-out their children once they reach the age of fifteen. A petition with more than 118,000 signatures protested against the change, insisting that it was the parents' 'fundamental right to teach their child' about sex. What these parents are missing is that their children are already being taught about sex, and not by them.”
Source: The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
“As of this moment,' Sadie growled, 'my brother's name is Punching Bag. Seems he hasn't been telling me everything.”
Source: Demigods & Magicians: Percy and Annabeth Meet the Kanes
“As of today, the majority of Asian countries are still examining crypto technology and drafting their regulatory outlines. Better crypto tax regulations should come in the next few months or a year from now. Now, we can settle the argument on crypto taxation laws enforcement. It is very certain that it is just a matter of time for this event to unfold, collecting capital gains tax is just a time bomb waiting to explode in the cryptocurrency space, or else, the government will place outright ban on these commodities.”
“As of today, there's no such thing as THE metaverse. Instead, there are many metaverses and walled garden platforms. More than the metaverse, what we're experiencing today is a multiverse.”
“As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!”
Source: Team Of One: We Believe
“As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.”
“As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.”
“As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.”
“As of yet there has been no theory or process for true strategy creation.”
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.”
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis.”
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”
“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”