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Familiar Quotations

Quanta

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.–Antonin Artaud

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.–Niels Bohr

Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice.–Albert Einstein

Quanta – "Measurement"

The measure of a man is not the number of his servants but in the number of people whom he serves.–Anonymous

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.–Dennis A. Peer

The measure of man is what he does with power.–Pittacus

Reality

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.–Anonymous

Reality forms around a commitment.–Anonymous

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.–Anonymous

Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on.–Anonymous

• Preface viii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Quanta 1
• Quanta – "Measurement" 1
• Reality 1
• Reality – "Dream" 6
• Reality – "Existence" 7
• Reality – "Facts" 7
• Reality – "Illusion" 8
• Reality – "Life" 8
• Reality – "Love" 9
• Reality – "Nothing" 9
• Reality – "Truth" 10
• Reality – "World" 10
• Use in Literature 12
• Quanta 12
• Reality 14
• Reality – "Absolute" 31
• Reality – "Act" 32
• Reality – "Alone" 32
• Reality – "Appears" 32
• Reality – "Bad" 36
• Reality – "Beautiful" 36
• Reality – "Beginning" 37
• Reality – "Believe" 38
• Reality – "Call" 39
• Reality – "Cases" 41
• Reality – "Change" 42
• Reality – "Characters" 43
• Reality – "Childhood" 44
• Reality – "Circumstance" 44
• Reality – "Coming" 45
• Reality – "Conception" 47
• Reality – "Conditions" 48
• Reality – "Consciously" 49
• Reality – "Day" 50
• Reality – "Death" 51
• Reality – "Desire" 51
• Reality – "Different" 52
• Reality – "Divine" 53
• Reality – "Doubtful" 54
• Reality – "Effective" 55
• Reality – "Elements" 56
• Reality – "Experience" 57
• Reality – "Expression" 58
• Reality – "Eyes" 58
• Reality – "Faith" 60
• Reality – "Far" 61
• Reality – "Felt" 62
• Reality – "Few" 64
• Reality – "Fiction" 65
• Reality – "Figuratively" 66
• Reality – "Force" 66
• Reality – "Form" 67
• Reality – "Found" 69
• Reality – "Free" 70
• Reality – "Friend" 70
• Reality – "Full" 71
• Reality – "Great" 71
• Reality – "Hand" 73
• Reality – "Happy" 74
• Reality – "Hard" 75
• Reality – "Heart" 76
• Reality – "Herself" 76
• Reality – "Holds" 77
• Reality – "Hope" 78
• Reality – "Human" 78
• Reality – "Ideal" 79
• Reality – "Idea" 80
• Reality – "Image" 82
• Reality – "Impression" 83
• Reality – "Influence" 84
• Reality – "Interesting" 84
• Reality – "Keep" 85
• Reality – "Kind" 86
• Reality – "Learn" 86
• Reality – "Leave" 87
• Reality – "Little" 88
• Reality – "Living" 89
• Reality – "Looks" 90
• Reality – "Lost" 93
• Reality – "Make" 93
• Reality – "Man" 95
• Reality – "Marriage" 99
• Reality – "Matter" 100
• Reality – "Means" 100
• Reality – "Memorable" 101
• Reality – "Mind" 101
• Reality – "Moment" 104
• Reality – "Name" 105
• Reality – "Natural" 106
• Reality – "Need" 108
• Reality – "Night" 108
• Reality – "Objects" 109
• Reality – "Observing" 110
• Reality – "Occasions" 111
• Reality – "Old" 111
• Reality – "Once" 112
• Reality – "Others" 113
• Reality – "Part" 114
• Reality – "Passion" 115
• Reality – "Past" 116
• Reality – "People" 117
• Reality – "Personal" 118
• Reality – "Place" 118
• Reality – "Pleased" 119
• Reality – "Poet" 120
• Reality – "Poetry" 121
• Reality – "Possible" 121
• Reality – "Power" 122
• Reality – "Practical" 123
• Reality – "Present" 123
• Reality – "Princes" 125
• Reality – "Public" 125
• Reality – "Qualified" 126
• Reality – "Questions" 126
• Reality – "Readily" 127
• Reality – "Real" 128
• Reality – "Reasoning" 128
• Reality – "Remained" 129
• Reality – "Representatives" 130
• Reality – "Romance" 131
• Reality – "Sad" 131
• Reality – "Science" 132
• Reality – "Seek" 132
• Reality – "Seemed" 133
• Reality – "Sense" 137
• Reality – "Sentimentalizing" 139
• Reality – "Shadows" 139
• Reality – "Show" 140
• Reality – "Simple" 141
• Reality – "Situations" 141
• Reality – "Sleep" 142
• Reality – "Speak" 142
• Reality – "Spirit" 143
• Reality – "State" 144
• Reality – "Story" 145
• Reality – "Strange" 146
• Reality – "Strong" 147
• Reality – "Subject" 148
• Reality – "Taking" 148
• Reality – "Term" 149
• Reality – "Test" 149
• Reality – "Things" 150
• Reality – "Think" 152
• Reality – "Thus" 156
• Reality – "Touch" 157
• Reality – "True" 158
• Reality – "Try" 159
• Reality – "Value" 159
• Reality – "View" 160
• Reality – "Way" 161
• Reality – "Whatever" 162
• Reality – "Woman" 162
• Reality – "Wonderful" 163
• Reality – "Words" 164
• Reality – "Work" 165
• Reality – "Years" 166
• Reality – "Young" 167
• Nonfiction Usage 168
• Journalism Usage 168
• Patent Usage 168
• Bibliographic Usage 169
• Encyclopedic Usage 188
• Lexicographic Usage 255
• Index 438