Quotes 81 till 100 of 129.
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One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
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People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
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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.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
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Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
And the first murderer lay upon the earth.Imperial Adam (l. 42-44) -
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
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Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and con
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
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The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
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The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
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