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"An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality."
"O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!"
"Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available."
"It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between."
"During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab."
"The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity."
"That great Cathedral space which was childhood."
"Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes."
"Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why."
"Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void."
"Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end."
"The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place."
"And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets."
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
"Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation."
"When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
"There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it."
"Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not."
"If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces"
"Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face."
