Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity."
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Layers
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Craig Thompson
Musician
"You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go."
Sally Mann
Photographer
"I think truth is a layered phenomenon. There are many truths that accumulate and build up. I am trying to peel back and explore these rich layers of truth. All truths are difficult to reach."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment."
Bill Gates
Business Magnate, Philanthropist
"Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up."
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"There’s blood beneath every layer of skin."
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"The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more refined, the game changes."
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"Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside."
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"When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers."
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"Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself."
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"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE."
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"I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change."
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"Adding a social layer to any platform immediately increases its effectiveness."
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"I still love the layers of cinema whether it's 35mm or 16mm or 8mm, super 8 which I love. I love the grain. If I had my druthers I'd film everything in kodachrome."
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"Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics"
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"I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer."
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"Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism."
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"We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America."
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"It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat."
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"If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance."
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"I would argue that search has made the world a better place. It has done so for reasons that arbitrarily could completely change that - not arbitrarily at all but to completely change how that plays out based upon the needs of profitability. So it's totally unreliable and it has many layers nested underneath that of many ulterior motives nested underneath it."
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"I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection."
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"The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment."
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"Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words."
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"I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, "Oh my God.""
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