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Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and... Alan Watts
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of... Aldous Huxley
...the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own. Richard Rorty
But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible). Thomas Pynchon
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism. Carl Sagan
T. S. Eliot quote: "If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon..."
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you. T. S. Eliot
Orson Welles quote: "A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only..."
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own. Orson Welles
From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. Lee Myung-bak
Robert Menendez quote: "My first priority is growing this economy in the long term,..."
My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term. Robert Menendez
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet. Jim Gilmore
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better. Carlos Ghosn
This is my first term. I was told it was going to be an exciting term, and a lot of things would be done, and I cannot think about something more exciting than save Social Security. Virginia Foxx
Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor. Bobby Flay
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. Ron Suskind
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. John Drinkwater

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