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The point of cities is multiplicity of choice. -- Jane Jacobs
Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind... -- Erwin Schrodinger
I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in 'Multiplicity.' -- Michael Keaton
I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so. -- Richard Rohr
I've had some really big hits with 'Groundhog Day' and 'Michael,' 'Multiplicity,' 'Four Weddings and a Funeral.' -- Andie MacDowell
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. -- Saint Augustine
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. -- Herbert Spencer
Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films. -- Harold Ramis
Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder. -- Jok Church
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. -- E. M. Forster
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. -- John Avlon
Multiplicity without strife is joy. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Multiplicity is a delusion. Unity is the Reality. -- Sathya Sai Baba
I never knew anyone who was cloned, but I played one in Multiplicity. -- Michael Keaton
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. -- Samuel Johnson
The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in. -- Thom Mayne
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. -- Marquis de Sade
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines. -- Leroy Hood
O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity. -- William Carlos Williams
We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies - images of potential tomorrows. -- Alvin Toffler
There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity. -- Anandamayi Ma
The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues. -- P. Chidambaram
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. -- Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. -- Isaac Newton
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. -- Quintilian
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. -- Miguel Syjuco
Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. -- Rabindranath Tagore
American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. -- Todd Gitlin
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. -- Annie Dillard
Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel. -- Kim Newman
Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants. -- Pope Francis
The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources. -- David Puttnam
To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage. -- Samuel Johnson
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life. -- George Edward Woodberry
...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest. -- James Madison
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing. -- Elaine Pagels
...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love. -- Emil Brunner
What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives. Look at us. We run a tightrope daily, balancing a pile of books on the head. Baby-carriage, parasol, kitchen chair, still under control. Steady now! This is not the life of simplicity but the life of multiplicity that the wise men warn us of. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. -- Danica McKellar
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of differentiating between the original and the copy. [Photography calls] into question the whole concept of the uniqueness of the art object, the originality of the author, the coherence of the oeuvre within which it was made, and the individuality of so-called self-expression. -- Rosalind E. Krauss
The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in. -- Thom Mayne
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rythm -- M. C. Escher
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. -- M. C. Escher
Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity. -- Henry Adams
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it. -- Mary Doria Russell
The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances. -- Al Meyerhoff
I like multi-multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement. -- Rossana Condoleo
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships. -- Federico Fellini
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number. -- Georg Cantor
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience. -- Anais Nin
Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. -- Stefan Zweig
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II -- Frank Herbert
The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He -- Meister Eckhart
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries. -- Voltaire
Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice. -- Peter Dale Scott
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America. -- James Madison
Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations. -- Colin Ward
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others. -- Rupert Spira
The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience. -- Steve Cosson
Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another. -- Jane Hirshfield
For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue. -- Deena Metzger
My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one. -- Stephen Spender
We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. -- James Hervey
The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
As a novelist, your impulse is toward multiplicity: multiple voices, multiple perceptions, multiple nuances, the ambiguity in human communication. Fiction really is the ultimate home for that sense of ambiguity. -- Pankaj Mishra
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life. -- Bernard Stiegler
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that twentieth-century multiplicity may become twentieth-century unity. -- Lewis Mumford
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them. -- Edwin Newman
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions. -- Emile M. Cioran

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