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  • Jean de la Bruyère One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • William James Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Immanuel Kant Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec People find life entirely too time-consuming.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Arnold Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Clive Barnes Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
    Clive Barnes
    English writer and critic (1927 - 2008)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Oscar Wilde The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth.
    Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Anthony Minghella The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Gloria Steinem The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Willa Cather The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Florence Nightingale The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Allan Bloom The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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