Quotes 381 till 400 of 504.
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The past is the teat that feeds those too weak to face the future
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The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on.
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The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
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The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
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The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
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The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
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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.
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The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
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The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
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The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
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The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
Hustling for the record machine.
The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.Source: Born To Run (1975) Jungleland -
The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
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