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“Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .”

Mind Humans Character Past Wonder Forever Greater Movement Infinite Complexes Depth Senses Endless Mysterious Variety Human Life Destination Mist Unfathomable Entirety Intricacy

Book:The Tesla Papers

Source: The Tesla Papers

“The notion that there is no basic value system is far more incoherent or invalid than the notion that there are essential values. Every religion can tell you it has basic values. You ask a Christian, most Christians would say love God and love your neighbor. Is that the entirety of Christianity? No one in his right mind would say it is.”

Mind Christian Values Asks Christianity Love You Essentials And Love Notion Neighbor God Love Entirety Value Systems Love Your Neighbor God And Love

Author:Dennis Prager

“It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year”

Years Has Beens Customs Entirety

Author:John Quincy Adams

“No news conferences? Interviews now only with friendly journalists? You can't be president or vice president and govern in that style, as a sequestered figure. This has been Mr. Bush's style the past few years, and see where it got us. You must address America in its entirety, not as a sliver or a series of slivers but as a full and whole entity, a great nation trying to hold together. When you don't, when you play only to your little piece, you contribute to its fracturing.”

“I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.”

People Needs Steps Type Celebrate Concerts Visionaries Presenting Steps Forward Electronic Music Entirety Bowie

Author:Carlos Alomar

“The edge came from the slights I've had throughout my life, the slights I have dealt with through the entirety of my life. It wasn't one day when somebody said something and that made me upset and now I'm over it. I'm not going to stop playing with an edge because that's what got me here. That's just how I play the game. I can't play any other way.”

Way Made Said I Can Play Games One Day Edges Upset Over It Entirety

Author:Richard Sherman

“Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.”

Zone Inviting Entirety

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“When I go back to the Quran I see that the context of Revelation is creation in its entirety. The universe is a Revelation and this of course includes nature, plants and animals. In other words, what is coming from the Quran as rules and objectives are set within the larger scheme of the universe and nature as part of Creation.”

Universe Courses Animal Creation Plant Objectives Revelations Schemes Quran Entirety Plants And Animals

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I had a great deal of independence from the president and the White House during the entirety of my five years. And I'm not sure exactly what that is, but our friend, Walter Dellinger, has a theory about it, and I think he's probably right. And the theory starts with the fact that I worked in the White House for a year and a half before coming over to the position of SG. And because of that, when I was nominated, there was some chatter out there that, "Oh. They're putting a political hack in. This has never happened before."”

Thinking Years Facts Political House President White Deals Half Five Happened Position Theory Independence Not Sure Five Years White House Hacks Chatter Entirety

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“Because of the gospel, God is doing a new work, and he invites us to participate in this innovative work that affects the entirety of our world.”

World Our World Invites Innovative Entirety New Work

Author:David Kim

“Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.”

World Reason Dream Courses Father Cry Bigger Jew Israel Redemption Imperfect Founding Entirety Bigger Than Life

Author:Amos Oz

“If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.”

Ifs Men Looks Kind Left Revolution Communist Discourse Entirety Ascendancy Khomeini

Author:Akbar Ganji

“I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety.”

Looks Two Problem Millions Impossible Organization Twenties Broads Scope Entirety Twenty Two Afros

Author:Malcolm X

“Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.”

Problem Bigs Solutions Organization Average Come Up Entirety

Author:Malcolm X

“We are improving the entirety of the system. You have got to make the grants available.”

Available Grants Improving Entirety

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“It's just the banks who are the latest target of the American socialist left. There is a war on the entirety of the private sector. It is the private sector that employs most of you, that services most of you, that creates the economic prosperity that our nation has enjoyed - and there is a war on that private sector, and it's being waged from the Oval Office, and its foot soldiers are on Wall Street and in other cities around the country.”

War Country Left Nations Cities Feet Economic Streets Wall Office Soldier Prosperity Enjoyed Target Socialist Private Sector Entirety Oval Economic Prosperity

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.”

Helping Fighting Church Pieces Lessons News Soldier Scared Borders Phrases Agreement Rome Wounded Accord Entirety Hermeneutics

Author:Pope Francis

“Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.”

Genes Entirety Genome

Author:Steven Pinker

“It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.”

Ifs States Dream Loses Path Impossible Democratic Israel Fulfilling Extremist Liable Entirety

Author:Ariel Sharon

“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.”

Knowing Library Guilty Not Knowing Possessing Entirety

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.”

Way Feels Action Remember Groups Determine Germany Nazi Entirety Generalisation

Book:The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

Source: The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them

“Because reason...is the only thing that makes us men, and distinguishes us from the beasts, I would prefer to believe that it exists, in its entirety, in each of us.”

Men Believe Reason Beast Entirety

Author:Rene Descartes

“Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?”

Men Humans Heart Made Soul Evil Destiny Human Nature Lows Ugly Wicked Misfortunes Transformed Roof Bent Columns Entirety Deformity

Author:Victor Hugo

“You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.”

Thinking Whole Wish Dear Dare Desperate Doomed Entirety

Author:William Faulkner

“Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.”

World Want Looks Art Real Feelings Beautiful Memories Forever Scene Connections Outsiders Live In The Present Entirety Lucidity

Book:Ellis Island and Other Stories

Source: Ellis Island and Other Stories

“What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.”

Needs Known Knowing Intimacy Entirety Elixir

Book:Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Source: Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

“Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.”

Love Inspirational Persons Hard Hands Marriage Hard Work Heartbreak Expectations Mere Entirety

Book:Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

Source: Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace With Marriage

“How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”

Ifs Needs Real Together Names Easy Enjoy Can Do Challenges Love Is Accepting Worthy Description Rough Hardship Dislike Smooth Entirety Pretty Things

Author:Elif Safak

“The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.”

Way Eye Brain Teeth My Way Damage Closing Entirety

Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two

“You wish they understood, as you do, that there is no escape and never was, that from the moment two cells combined to become one they were doomed. You wish they understood that there is joy in this fact, greater joy and love in just this one last moment than they experienced in the entirety of their lives. Because even in this last moment there is still Everything, whole galaxies and eons, the sum total of every experience across time, shrunk to the head of a pin, theirs for the asking, right here, right now. And so anything, anything, anything is possible.”

Stills Two Whole Moments Facts Lasts Joy Wish Greater Right Now Understood And Love Asking Cells Doomed Galaxy Pins Anything Is Possible Entirety

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.”

Ifs Want Earth Spiritual Picks Deeds Entirety

Book:Unfamiliar Fishes

Source: Unfamiliar Fishes

“God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God”

Men Want Persons Whole Inspiration Christian Faith Pursuit Entirety Whole Person

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.”

Self Names Rooms Quality Fire Building Towns Patterns Maintaining Entirety

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.”

Men Feet Blame Shoes Guilty Entirety

Author:Samuel Beckett

“Tegus, I'm leaving this book behind for you, so you will know the why of it all, and maybe you'll forgive me, or maybe you'll think me false and reprehensible. You'd be justified. I couldn't stand the thought of your reading all my words unless I knew for certain that I'd never have to face you again, so please don't look for me. If you read the book in its entirety, you'll know for truth who is Lady Saren. And I guess you'll also know that I'm a silly girl who writes down every word you said to me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Looks Said Book Faces Certain Girl Reading Behinds Please Forgiving Leaving Silly Justified You Again Forgive Me Entirety Silly Girl

Author:Shannon Hale

“There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression “trick of the light” applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illumination” .”

Sometimes Light Stars Heard Expression Illusion Sight Complexes Tricks Flames Suspects Circus Illumination Entirety Lanterns

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.”

Ifs Might Remember Purpose Strong Memories Twenties Aim Uncertainty Confused Uncertain Patches Short Life Entirety Overlapping Backtracking

Author:Julian Barnes

“If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room. Then alone can you see it in its fullness, for then there are no limitations. This is why I advise the pillow meditation to certain people, so that they can observe their anger fully.”

People Ifs Want Certain Rooms Meditation Anger Limitation Privacy Fullness Advise Pillow Entirety Your Room

Author:Rajneesh

“We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”

Ifs Needs Whole Fall History Study Fall Back Entirety

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.”

“Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.”

Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex

“Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.”

Looks May Focus Violence Organize Entirety

Author:Patricia Ireland

“Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.”

Years Has Beens War Able Political Liberty Millions Week Society Weak Terrorist Command Ideological Civil Liberties Entirety Already Won Magna Carta

Author:Rocco Galati

“There is not a soul on Earth who can read the deluge of physics publications in its entirety. As a result, it is sad but true that physics has irretrievably fallen apart from a cohesive to a fragmented discipline. ... It was not that long ago that people were complaining about two cultures. If we only had it that good. today.”

People Ifs Long Two Soul Today Earth Science Culture Results Discipline Complaining Physics Fallen Long Ago Self Discipline Publication Sad But True Entirety Fragmented Deluge Two Cultures

Author:Abraham Pais

“Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.”

Character Feelings Brain Wonderful Strange Available Clicks Strange Things Entirety

Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor

“I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.”

Want Play Whole Girl Profession Who I Am Hopefully Entirety

Author:Fairuza Balk

“Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.”

“The entirety of the world's knowledge is in your pants right now.”

World Right Now Pants Entirety

Author:Jay Baer

“BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.”

May Whole Body Form Results Beauty Members Respect Regard Agree Structure Appearance Completion Composing Correspondence Entirety Interconnection

Author:Andrea Palladio