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"Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known"
"Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
"All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried."
"In Stalin each [Soviet bureaucrat] easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality."
"One's true worth as a human being is not a matter of outward appearance or title, but derives rather from the breadth of one's spirit. Everything comes down to faith and conviction. It is what is in one's heart, and the substance of one's actions that count."
"Work is the only thing that gives substance to life."
"What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening."
"I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it."
"Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one."
"The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will."
"Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."
"You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system."
"Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament."
"Our breath is the most precious substance in our lives, and yet we totally take for granted when we exhale that our next breath will be there. If we did not take another breath, we would not last 3 minutes. Now if the Power that created us has given us enough breath to last for as long as we shall live, can we not trust that everything else we need will also be supplied?"
"I think I enjoy playing human beings no matter the substance of their character."
"True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible."
"Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has."
"Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
"I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too."
"I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present."
