Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 1877.
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What is 'cool,' anyway? Maybe it's Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
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What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
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What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
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What troubles me about the hostile workplace category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (2013) -
What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and we need to concentrate on being respectful of those people with whom we disagree.
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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
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What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
Falling Man (2011) 73 -
What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
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What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
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What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
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What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
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What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.
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