Quotes 1361 till 1380 of 1797.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) 144 -
The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.
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The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
The Human Stain (2000) -
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.
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The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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