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"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."

"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."

"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."

"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."

"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."

"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe."

"As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love."

"I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop."

"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."

"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion."

"I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words."

"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us."
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