Quotes 4741 till 4760 of 6781.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''
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The funny thing is while the grown-ups in the family may indulge, we really try to offer our son Duke clean food, as all his meals are made with organic ingredients as the rest of us eat cookies straight out of the freezer.
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The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
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The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
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The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
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The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
The God Delusion -
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
Motivation and Personality (1954) -
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
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