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"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight."

Aurelius, Marcus on losers and losing
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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."

Hare, David on poetry and poets
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"Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- ."

Dickinson, Emily on dissent
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"The fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on famous last words
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all."

Dickinson, Emily on hope
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"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door."

Dickinson, Emily on opportunity
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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

Dickinson, Emily on poetry and poets    Share

"I dwell in Possibility."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"Come into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher."

Wordsworth, William on light
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"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

Burke, Edmund on facts
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"Thou strange piece of wild nature!"

Cibber, Colley on eccentricity
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"It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."

Wald, George on physics    Share

"Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force."

Buser, Paul Vernon on desire    Share

"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."

Gilbert, W. S. on ancestry
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"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown."

Magritte, Rene on unknown
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on science
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."

Blake, William on nature
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

Lao-Tzu on change
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"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is."

Gretzky, Wayne on expectation    Share

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