Parallelism Quotes

• Because of Walter, we did it the other way around. We also worked with an awesome sound designer named Will Patterson who just worked for four years on Terrence Malick's films. He did a lot of conceptual work to make the soundscapes in the jungle have this surreal quality, to blend these two films because a lot of the images are about this parallelism between the movies. The sound was very integral to fusing everything.

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  Sam Pressman

  Years   Two   Quality  

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

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  Henry Adams

  Friendship   True Friend   Two  

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• Some authors state that the last stage in this chain of measurements involves "consciousness," or the "intellectual inner life" of the observer, by virtue of the "principle of psycho-physical parallelism." Other authors introduce a wave function for the entire universe. In this book, I shall refrain from using concepts that I do not understand.

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  Asher Peres

  Book   Intellectual   Lasts  

  "Quantum theory: concepts and methods" by Asher Peres, Springer, (p. 26-27), 1995.

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

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  Charles Dickens

  Spring   Communication   Winter  

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them.

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  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Mind   Substance   Denial  

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, "Not unto us, not unto us." According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success   Humility   Eye  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.42, Penguin

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• The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry the same as "determining parallelism," a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.

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  Hans Reichenbach

  Mean   Doe   Congruence  

  "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.

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• One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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  Henry Adams

  Friendship   Real   Two  

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational   Time   Cities  

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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