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Tunnels

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Tunnels

"Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude."

Reality Attitude Tunnels
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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Tunnels

"There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind."

Reality Light Tunnels
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Evan Davis Journalist
Tunnels

"Phyllis is one of the tunnel boring machines for Crossrail and one of the most extraordinary characters I met, visiting some of the most exciting infrastructure in Britain. Crossrail is the new railway which will run from West to East right across London. It is the biggest engineering project in Europe - and Phyllis herself is not exactly dainty."

Character Running Tunnels
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Seth Musician
Tunnels

"Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day"

Hard Work Next Day Tunnels
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
Tunnels

"Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness."

Love Fire Tunnels
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Lauren Oliver Author
Tunnels

"people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine."

Dark Space Tunnels
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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
Tunnels

"There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing."

Sleep Air Tunnels
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Tunnels

"It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait."

Real Waiting Tunnels
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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher
Tunnels

"To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars."

Beautiful Stars Tunnels
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Pablo Neruda Poet, Diplomat
Tunnels

"Will our life not be a tunnel between two vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles?"

Two Dark Tunnels
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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Tunnels

"Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it"

Ideas Light Tunnels
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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Tunnels

"Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel"

Reality Animal Tunnels
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Dan Brown Author
Tunnels

"When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit"

Dark Swimming Tunnels
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