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"Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard."
"Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest."
"The moon... is a mass, akin to the mass of the earth, attracts the waters by a magnetic force, not because they are liquid, but because they possess earthy substance, and so share in the movements of a heavy body."
"Time is the substance of which we are made"
"What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?"
"Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved."
"If he says he has the pizzazz and the sizzle, I have the steak, and substance. I've made more money than he's made. I've made bigger deals than he's made, when he's got the complexion to get the protection."
"Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger."
"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters."
"We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking."
"Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant."
"Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet ."
"I see myself as a traditionalist. I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in."
"It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind."
"The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been."
"In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength."
"Every corporeal substance, so far forth as it is corporeal, has a natural fitness for resting in every place where it may be situated by itself beyond the sphere of influence of a body cognate with it."
"As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other."
"A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government."
"We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow."
