Quotes with dead-ends

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  • Anna Jameson In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run we are all dead.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run, we are all dead.
    A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch.3
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Erich Fromm In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • David Fasold Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
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  • Albert Einstein Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ends only with death.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Tom Lehrer It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Greil Marcus It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
    Virginibus Puerisque
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Joan Didion It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 161
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Giambattista Vico It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Harry S. Truman It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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