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We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.


James Turrell

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at
5
in the morning.
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We do ...
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JAMES BRYCE The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex bu...
JAMES AGATE Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
JAMES BARRIE One does not become a guru by accident.
JAMES FENTON They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
CAPTAIN JAMES It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moment...
ALICE JAMES A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JAMES FEIBLEMAN You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can ratt...
JAMES HETFIELD There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours...
JAMES AGATE Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality
JAMES DYE Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This...
JAMES DYE Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrific...
JAMES BARRIE A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMES The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convict...
JAMES GARFIELD Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty -- necessarily, since a religion...
JAMES BALDWIN Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence,...
JAMES ALLEN The gallows were used to punish criminals, for instance the pharoahs would chop off people's heads a...
JAMES DYE The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our c...
WILLIAM JAMES The most useless are those who never change through the years.
JAMES BARRIE