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"I am conscious about myself and everything, and then suddenly, or slowly, my conscious fades out. Switches off. And it's not existing, and that's a marvelous feeling. That from existing, I am not existing. And at that moment, nothing can happen to me."
"But the moment the politicians start saying they are in denial of what the scientists are telling them, of what the consensus of scientific experiments demonstrates, that is the beginning of the end of an informed democracy."
"One moment, ten thousand years. Ten thousand years, one moment."
"There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation."
"In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."
"People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments."
"TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth."
"These are the moments for which we live."
"You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving."
"The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness."
"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job."
"[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . ."
"Some people can touch your life for a brief moment but will leave an imprint for a lifetime."
"Accept the present moment without judgement."
"Honoring the moment is honoring every human being you meet. The only place where you can meet them is in the moment."
"Transformations always occur during moments of crisis."
"I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed."
"When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes."
"A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history."
"At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning."
