Quotes 2901 till 2920 of 8601.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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I regret all of my books.
― Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
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I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
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I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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