Quotes with alert

  • Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
  • By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

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  • Georges Bernanos Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • I Ching Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Bill Dedman NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Muriel Spark One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Ben Stein Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Carl Honore Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • John Irving There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
    Speech, 17-01-1961
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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