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«Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.»
«No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.»
Author: Colin Powell | About: Enemies | Keywords: battle plan, contact, survives
«When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.»
«The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.»
«There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.»
«Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.»
«When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.»
«Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.»
«Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock»
«The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Habit | Keywords: accepts, contact, habit, practice, The Body, wishes

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