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The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Ang Lee

Life, Truth, Nothing

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthus

Great, Painting, Pleasure

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.
Clarence Clemons

Music, Mind, Self

The only true source of politeness is consideration.
William Gilmore Simms

True, Politeness

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly

True, Cannot, Moral

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
Jackie Chan

Money, Movies, Greatest

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
Marilyn vos Savant

Good, Bad, Both

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael

Rest, Arts, Critic

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus.
Bishop Robert South

Rather, Defeat, Fresh

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough

Life, Beauty, Greatest

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
Joan Didion

Life, Writer, Lead

I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.
Swoosie Kurtz

Life, Pain, Joy

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South

Rather, Defeat, Fresh

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
Carlos Ghosn

Job, Person, Done

There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.
Thomas Frank

Integrity, Jail, Protect

Then again, my case was all about the misappropriation of source code because I wanted to become the best hacker in the world and I enjoyed beating the security mechanisms.
Kevin Mitnick

Best, Become, Wanted

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Paracelsus

Life, Through, Another

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Graham Greene

Book, Cannot, Spirit

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.
Arthur Erickson

Expression, Line, Bottom

There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters.
Al Gore

View, Income, Skeptics

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
Katherine Heigl

Great, Wisdom, Mother

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Alfred North Whitehead

Best, Alone, Wisdom

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.
Freeman Dyson

Power, Government, Technology

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
Clive Owen

Book, Different, Making

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Family, Broken, Seem

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.
James Wolcott

Stars, Curiosity, Tabloid

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Human, Person, Sun

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
Elizabeth Gilbert

Work, Through, Cannot

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
Pierre Bayle

Peace, Tolerance, Disorder

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa

Strength, Truth, Live

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