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  • Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
  • Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity - it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
  • The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
  • I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
  • Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
  • Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
  • If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
  • A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
  • People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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  • Maya Angelou A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • George Santayana Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Harrigan Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Napoleon Hill When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Lee Simonson Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
    Lee Simonson
     
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  • Arthur Bloch A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • B. W. Powe A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • William Shenstone A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Alexander Trocchi All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
    Alexander Trocchi
    Scottish writer (1925 - 1984)
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Abraham Cahan At one time he was employed on one of the Yiddish dailies, but lost his job during a political campaign, when he refused to write two editorials advocating the election of two opposing candidates, both to appear in the same issue of the newspaper.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Paul Klee Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Wendy Cope Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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