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Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001)[citation needed] was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances.

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Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

Clouds, Light, Reflected, Rock, Space, Three

The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

Behave, Citizens, Democratic, Feudal, Ideas, World

Every moment an epiphany arrives and cleaves the mountain asunder

Arrives, Epiphany, Moment, Moments, Mountain

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Conceive, Conscious, Earth, Powerful, Sustainably, Trust

None of us know our real names.

Know, Knows, Names, Real

It's too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams.

Courage, Dream, Fully, Live, Lives, Our Lives

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Corrupted, Fool, Fools, People, Power

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

Actually, Adventure, Climbing, Fun, Funny, Mark

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

Cognition, Landscape, Logic

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Against, Begin, Defense, Despair, Patterns, Toward

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

Breaths, Freely, Given, Gives, Giving, Universe

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

50Th, 70Th, Common, Common Sense, Latitude, Law

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

Ends, Reincarnation, Stories, Story, Tell

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

Act, Answers, Needs, Promotes, Question, Too Late

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

Checks, Hand, Hands, Invisible, Invisible Hand, Picks

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind.

Earth, Hardest, Inertia, Leaving, Powerful

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Conversation, Kind, Mean, Performance, Together, Whistling

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Excess, Madness, Reason

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire. . . Life is wanting.

Desire, Life Is, Living, Trying, Wanting

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Blank, Given, Inappropriate, Remind, Universe

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