Plato
Philosopher
"Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful."
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Andrea Thompson
Journalist
"I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that."
Angus Young
Musician
"When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show."
Diana Gabaldon
Author
"Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."
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"Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
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"The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for."
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"We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves."
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"Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change."
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"Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew."
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"Birds never sing in caves."
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"If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong."
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"Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind."
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"All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's cave"
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"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center."
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"The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century."
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"Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine."
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"...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe."
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"Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller."
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"Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave."
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"Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'."
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"You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?""
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"The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave."
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"I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave."
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"The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up."
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