#verse

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. ↗

— William Blake

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I have been going to Italy since 1980, but I always went to do work. I did not live overseas, because I do not like running around with everything I own in a paper bag. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

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People are composed of many things, and in my work, what influences me is the complexity of people - the chiaroscuro of dark and light. When I play a strong guy, I try to find, where is he weak? And, conversely, when I play a weak guy, where is he strong? ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

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