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Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.


Thomas Hardy


#displacement #experience #importance #life #tess-of-the-d-urbervilles

The young man went to India, where he was drowned. As there is no mystery in this matter, it may as well be stated here that young Heaton ultimately returned to England, as drowned men have ever been in the habit of doing, when their return will mightily inconvenience innocent persons who have taken their places. It is a disputed question whether the sudden disappearance of a man, or his reappearance after a lapse of years, is the more annoying. ("The Vengeance Of The Dead")


Robert Barr


#reappearance #replacement #men

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.


David Bowie


#either #ethical #hard #humanists #immortal

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.


Judith Butler


#centers #constitute #disciplinary #displacement #marginal

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.


Walter Kohn


#been #displacement #energy #established #had