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  • Because he's a disgusting idiot who will probably be rich and happy his whole life, thus proving the absolute unfairness of the cosmos?"†   (source)
  • Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms.†   (source)
  • You have to bend under a wild arch of cosmos when you come up the walk, and use your whole right arm to push the hollyhocks aside to get in the front door.†   (source)
  • It might be argued that the Siamese-twin infants of word/idea are the only contribution the human species can, will, or should make to the reveling cosmos.†   (source)
  • My mother turned on the bug light, Boo brought a huge bouquet of the last of her zinnias and cosmos, and my father flipped the steaks on the patio and drank beer with Stewart, who had pre-cooked his fajitas to avoid any meattempeh interaction.†   (source)
  • Heraclitus—who lived around 500 B.C.—composed a number of adages, what are called his "apothegms of change," all of which tell us that everything is changing at every moment, that the movement of time causes ceaseless change in the cosmos.†   (source)
  • Of course, even without my help, other forces would keep the cosmos chugging along.†   (source)
  • To quote Kramer and Maier again, '[They believed in] the existence from time primordial of a fundamental, unalterable, comprehensive assortment of powers and duties, norms and standards, rules and regulations, known as me, relating to the cosmos and its components, to gods and humans, to cities and countries, and to the varied aspects of civilized life.'†   (source)
  • I study Sarah Byrnes's eyes while Sarah Byrnes studies the cosmos.†   (source)
  • I waited patiently—years—for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer.†   (source)
  • He then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it — .†   (source)
  • They thought that each person was like a world in miniature, or "microcosmos," which is a reflection of the "macro-cosmos."†   (source)
  • They'd already watched three Paul Walker movies on DVD, checked the Lost website for the bio on the hot guy who played Sawyer, and read all the Cosmos that hadn't been recycled, but there was no HBO, nothing chocolate in the fridge, and no party at Sterling College to sneak into.†   (source)
  • It was the faithful change of apparel, an adjustment to the cosmos that made his life seem regular.†   (source)
  • It was about dreams, vivid and optimistic dreams of a future as radiant as Buck Rogers's cosmos.†   (source)
  • He knew my schedule and that I was a waitress at Cosmos.†   (source)
  • It was a simple formula for cosmic confusion, the cosmos being the false universe of Novgorod.†   (source)
  • She tells Tía Lourdes that "the times demand an alignment with the flow of the cosmos," and that adjustments have to be made before any further action can be taken.†   (source)
  • In a few thousand years—a mere heartbeat of the cosmos—this could be paradise.†   (source)
  • Uncle Press knew his way around the cosmos and Loor was a fierce warrior.†   (source)
  • From our lonely corner of the cosmos we have used ingenuity and determination to touch the very limits of outer and inner space.†   (source)
  • With the cameras rolling, he walks toward the center describing Einstein's general theory of relativity and goes into some facts—black holes are the remnants of former stars; they're so dense that not even light can escape; they lurk inside every galaxy; they're the most destructive force in the cosmos; as a black hole passes through space, it engulfs everything that comes too close to it, stars, comets, planets.†   (source)
  • They were equally helpless, equally overwhelmed by the unimaginable complexity of a galaxy of a hundred thousand million suns, and a cosmos of a hundred thousand million galaxies.†   (source)
  • Across its front grew feathery cosmos and barrel-sized peony bushes with stripy heavy-scented blooms pushing out of the leaves.†   (source)
  • Never, never, even in their moments of richest and wildest happiness, were they unaware of a sublime joy in the total design of the universe, a feeling that they themselves were a part of that whole, an element in the beauty of the cosmos.†   (source)
  • this vast neutral cosmos may turn out to be a pleasant place enough if we bring a little sunshine of our own to help it out. In truth, the world is neither with us or against us; it is but raw material in our hands, and can be heaven or hell according to what we are.   (source)
  • We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.   (source)
  • ...those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.   (source)
  • Wouldn't you do anything to save your family, even if it upset the balance of the cosmos?†   (source)
  • One afternoon, he saw one with the name Cosmos Mariner painted on the bow.†   (source)
  • Truly, it was an event so unprecedented, it should have ripped apart the cosmos.†   (source)
  • That means there was nothing to stop the radiation from the cosmos.†   (source)
  • The word 'cosmos' appears often in his poetry, you know.†   (source)
  • That evening he went home and looked for mention of the Cosmos Mariner in the shipping news.†   (source)
  • A lot of folks in the Norse cosmos had warned me that names had power.†   (source)
  • Cosmos, no, it's not even the end of April yet, is it?†   (source)
  • To be with her after dark, I quit Cosmos.†   (source)
  • Maybe as the suite became more attuned to me, the photos just emerged from the cosmos.†   (source)
  • He authored The Fabric of the Cosmos and The Elegant Universe.†   (source)
  • I've got sugar peas in that little bed around to the side, but not cosmos.†   (source)
  • As soon as he graduated from high school he moved west at found seasonal employment as a NOLS instructor, Climbing became the center of his cosmos, and he never looked back.†   (source)
  • She had the entire cosmos living on her skin: gleaming constellations, galaxies too bright to look at, glowing nebulae of pink and blue dust.†   (source)
  • The supreme task — is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction.†   (source)
  • That doesn't make me too good a friend, but when I think of just training hard to make it to State and going out with Jody and studying the nature of the cosmos with Ellerby over a six-pack of burgers—well, that's what I long for right now.†   (source)
  • It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.†   (source)
  • I sit, baffled, in the dark living room of our house in Baden, loaded rifle against my belly, cocooning a cosmos.†   (source)
  • He makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and serenity which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience — .†   (source)
  • The cosmos would stop turning.†   (source)
  • It is the quest of this special classic beauty, the sense of harmony of the cosmos, which makes us choose the facts most fitting to contribute to this harmony.†   (source)
  • Beyond the dome was not the usual serenity of twinkling constellations, but a raging, churning cosmos.†   (source)
  • It was marigolds and Hot Tamale cosmos.†   (source)
  • The Titans will yet rule the cosmos.†   (source)
  • So, too, had the view of the cosmos.†   (source)
  • They went to Cosmos and interviewed the owner and the man who flipped the pizzas inside the front window.†   (source)
  • It grieves me that some have the audacity to whisper that the Great God has not returned but has fled with his Book to drift among the cosmos and contemplate the far places.†   (source)
  • Are you planting cosmos?†   (source)
  • I also worked as a waitress at Cosmos Pizza Shop, on Marshall Street, and my work schedule, combined with these evening readings, meant that I was out at night a lot.†   (source)
  • And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and flux of the universe itself.†   (source)
  • They were like men in a zoo; he gazed at them, looking for all the little particular markings of the town, the fine mapping upon their limbs and faces of their own little cosmos.†   (source)
  • In the center Lorraine had put a low bowl of pink cosmos from the garden with their feathery, fernlike leaves.†   (source)
  • It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into the human cultural manifestation.†   (source)
  • Kitty had been quietly toying with her glass and one longstemmed cosmos that leaned out from the rest until she knocked pollen from it into her milk and I left the table to go to the kitchen for a fresh glass.†   (source)
  • As the individual is an organ of society, so is the tribe or city—so is humanity entire—only a phase of the mighty organism of the cosmos.†   (source)
  • Such self-righteousness leads to a misunderstanding, not only of oneself but of the nature of both man and the cosmos.†   (source)
  • Or another example: The hogan, or mud hut, of the Navahos of New Mexico and Arizona, is constructed on the plan of the Navaho image of the cosmos.†   (source)
  • 28 The mythological figure of the Universal Mother imputes to the cosmos the feminine attributes of the first, nourishing and protecting presence.†   (source)
  • The disciple has been blessed with a vision transcending the scope of normal human destiny, and amounting to a glimpse of the essential nature of the cosmos.†   (source)
  • As he crosses threshold after threshold, conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the cosmos.†   (source)
  • Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form—all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.†   (source)
  • This is the crisis at the nadir, at the zenith, or at the uttermost edge of the earth, at the central point of the cosmos, in the tabernacle of the temple, or within the darkness of the deepest chamber of the heart.†   (source)
  • Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest—as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.†   (source)
  • The problem of the hero going to meet the father is to open his soul beyond terror to such a degree that he will be ripe to understand how the sickening and insane tragedies of this vast and ruthless cosmos are completely validated in the majesty of Being.†   (source)
  • As in the actual experience of every living being, so in the grandiose figure of the living cosmos: in the abyss of sleep the energies are refreshed, in the work of the day they are exhausted; the life of the universe runs down and must be renewed.†   (source)
  • …to man; for when, during his final life on earth as a human being, he shattered for himself the bounds of the last threshold (which moment opened to him the timelessness of the void beyond the frustrating mirage-enigmas of the named and bounded cosmos), he paused: he made a vow that before entering the void he would bring all creatures without exception to enlightenment; and since then he has permeated the whole texture of existence with the divine grace of his assisting presence, so…†   (source)
  • Finally, the world destruction, which the physicists tell us must come with the exhaustion of our sun and ultimate running down of the whole cosmos,28 stands presaged in the scar left by the fire of Tangaroaa: the world-destructive effects of the creator-destroyer will increase gradually until, at last, in the second course of the cosmogonic cycle, all will devolve into the sea of bliss.†   (source)
  • Tao underlies the cosmos.†   (source)
  • Thus the sailors of the bold vessels of Columbus, breaking the horizon of the medieval mind—sailing, as they thought, into the boundless ocean of immortal being that surrounds the cosmos, like an endless mythological serpent biting its tail33—had to be cozened and urged on like children, because of their fear of the fabled leviathans, mermaids, dragon kings, and other monsters of the deep.†   (source)
  • The bonds of the flesh had little part in my cosmos of love.†   (source)
  • Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, Pantin.†   (source)
  • The advertisement in the Minneapolis paper leaped from the page to her eyes: The Cosmos School of Music, Oratory, and Dramatic Art announces a program of four one-act plays by Schnitzler, Shaw, Yeats, and Lord Dunsany.†   (source)
  • Even before his final outburst to me, at times, very late at night, say, he has blurted out something that gave an insight into the sentimental view of the cosmos that was his.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless he was so much interested in himself that he scarcely found room in his cosmos for a keen and really intelligent understanding of anyone else.†   (source)
  • For at the moment of the final division, the final miniaturization of matter, suddenly the whole cosmos opened up.†   (source)
  • She became an unstable being in a shapeless, colorless, soundless cosmos of unrelated things, but always rushing, even to meet the darkness that haunted her and never reached her.†   (source)
  • In the beer-garden the tremendous Sondelius discoursed of the Cosmos Club, Halle's investigation of infant mortality, the suitability of combining benedictine and apple-jack, Biarritz, Lord Haldane, the Doane-Buckley method of milk examination, George Gissing, and homard thermidor.†   (source)
  • As it left the Marabars, their nasty little cosmos disappeared, and gave place to the Marabars seen from a distance, finite and rather romantic.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the child's simple belief that stars were holes in the tent of heaven through which eternal brightness shone was many thousand times clearer to his heart than all the empty, absurd, and presumptuous babble about the "cosmos" perpetrated by monistic science.†   (source)
  • Or, conversely, your Renaissance astronomers discovered the truth, and the cosmos is infinite, which means there is no world that transcends the senses, no dualism; the world beyond is absorbed into this world, the polarity of God and nature is annulled, and since the human personality is no longer the battlefield of two hostile principles, but rather harmonious and unified, all human conflict stems from the clash between the interests of the individual and of society as a whole, and…†   (source)
  • I wouldn't go so far as to say that the natural order—the size of the earth, for instance, or the time it takes for it to turn on its axis or orbit the sun, the alternation of day and night, the change of seasons, the rhythm of the cosmos, if you like—that all that has been measured out to suit our needs.†   (source)
  • …of nineteenth-century science and economics have omitted nothing, absolutely nothing, that seemed even vaguely useful for furthering such degradation, beginning with modern astronomy—which turned the focal point of the universe, that sublime arena where God and Satan struggled to possess the creature whom they both ardently coveted, into an unimportant little planet, and, for now at least, has put an end to man's grand position in the cosmos, upon which astrology was likewise based.†   (source)
  • …head back and pointing a forefinger into the air, Hans Castorp elucidated the fields of heaven for his uncle, or quasi cousin, tracing with words and gestures one twinkling constellation here, another there, and calling planets by name; his relative, meanwhile, paid more attention to his companion than to the cosmos, remarking to himself that, although it was certainly possible and hardly crazy to speak here and now about the stars, there were surely several other more obvious topics.†   (source)
  • As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.†   (source)
  • With inexhaustible zest, the popular press took potshots at feature articles from the Geographic Institute of Brazil, the Royal Academy of Science in Berlin, the British Association, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., at discussions in The Indian Archipelago, in Cosmos published by Father Moigno, in Petermann's Mittheilungen,* and at scientific chronicles in the great French and foreign newspapers.†   (source)
  • There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and evil, contemplators of cosmos and radiantly forgetful of man, who do not understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the lymphatic curvature of the little spinal column, with the pallet, the…†   (source)
  • Have we cold feet about the cosmos?†   (source)
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