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Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.


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WILLIAM TURNER There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
JACK VALENTI God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.
ADOLF HITLER It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and wa...
DAN QUAYLE The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded th...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time...
WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological think...
STANISLAV GROF The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world...
SANDRA CISNEROS It isn't safe to go to the parks. Toxic chemicals ruin the air and water. There is vandalism, ev...
MICHAEL FROME Don't believe everything you read or hear, remember a large part of our world is made up of fiction!...
VICTORIA ADDINO There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spir...
BRANDON BOYD Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our bein...
STANLEY HAUERWAS THEY WILL TRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE MADE UP OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES.
THEY DON’T KNOW A DAM...
VANSHIKA DHYANI Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.
JASPER CARROTT This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' g...
AI WEIWEI Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the worl...
DAVID SUZUKI A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, w...
HENRY MILLER 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, drea...
TOM PETERS Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, ...
CHIP CONLEY There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water,...
SHERI FINK A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, w...
HENRY MILLER Donald Trump doesn't speak like a politician, and that's made some people uncomfortable. In ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."
Even in your world, my son...
C.S. LEWIS Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms
PENELOPE LIVELY Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
PENELOPE LIVELY Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Because the air is so humid, you can't really get rid of water, ... The body is trying to sweat and ...
DAVID ROSS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of mach...
EUGENE B. BOROWITZ Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a c...
SIMON WINCHESTER Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those ...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn...
OCTAVIA SPENCER The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he ...
GLENN HODDLE People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely fo...
IRA GLASS The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising t...
STEVEN PINKER There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. . . / Commit a crime, and the earth is made of gl...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same ki...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while tha...
ALAN MOORE From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to...
JOHN HOEVEN Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, a...
HERACLITUS The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
MURIEL RUKEYSER The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms
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JULIE SUPAN The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world o...
YEHUDA AMICHAI We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a mat...
BARACK OBAMA For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. ...
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JAN KOUM In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, ...
JOHN GRIBBIN Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grim...
JOHN BURNSIDE A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so...
SWAMI SIVANANDA A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - great...
FERNANDO PESSOA There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who m...
CHRIS GIBSON In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we'v...
TOM CARPER Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.
LL COOL J Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet...
LYALL WATSON As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our child...
NATASHA RICHARDSON Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just ne...
JEWEL Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't ...
ROBERT WAGNER [T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or ...
WERNER HEISENBERG The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.
TIMOTHY NOAH A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die...
BARNABE BARNES I believe giving back is one of the greatest life lessons we can teach our children: that the world ...
GRETCHEN CARLSON Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are go...
JAAN TALLINN This world and everything in it is only temporary; eternity is out there, we swim in it. And within ...
C. JOYBELL C. Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin...
GORDON ATKINSON Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories...
MIA COUTO The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ens...
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness ...
ARIEL GORE The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms fi...
CHRISTOPHE GALFARD A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE Fiber optics have linked the world together and made our world, our planet, basically one small plac...
DAVID KIRKPATRICK Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
J. K. ROWLING Isn't that the definition of a star? Someone who can get a film made?
BRUCE ROBINSON Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we...
ALEXANDER SKARSGARD It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of ...
GEORGE WALD We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms an...
AARON D. O'CONNELL Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
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SIMON BEAUFOY Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predic...
ALEX STEFFEN Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
AMBROSE BIERCE The world to-day is sick to its thin blood for lack of elemental things, for fire before the hands, ...
HENRY BESTON Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd t...
M.R. CAREY I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON Historically and culturally, New York City and our entire nation simply would not be the same withou...
NYDIA VELAZQUEZ Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
TERRY PRATCHETT I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that...
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficia...
LYNN MARGULIS It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye
Tha...
RUDYARD KIPLING The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of per...
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TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.
TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
TOM ROBBINS