Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely … - John Updike

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Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro<br>microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?

John Updike

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

Binary, Faith, Quantum, States, Tends

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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

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I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

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We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics of a lot of punk music and so on is very, life sucks and then you die, sort of theory. I feel life is cheaper and death is more attractive now than it was when I was an adolescent, as I remember. Suicide was a personal pathology when it was committed. There was no society approval of it, like there certainly is in Palestine and some quarters of Iraq.

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Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

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Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

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Since the NBA purchased the New Orleans Hornets, final responsibility for significant management decisions lies with the Commissioner's Office in consultation with team chairman Jac Sperling. All decisions are made on the basis of what is in the best interests of the Hornets. In the case of the trade proposal that was made to the Hornets for Chris Paul, we decided, free from the influence of other NBA owners, that the team was better served with Chris in a Hornets uniform than by the outcome of the terms of that trade.

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Alexander Payne

When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.

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Rose Kennedy

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

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Robert Breault

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

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Chuck Missler

Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro
microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?

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