Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 2595.
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Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
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Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospitality at the beginning of a poem. The title and the first few lines are a kind of welcome mat where I am inviting the reader inside.
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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
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Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.
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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ''Make me feel important.'' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
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Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet.
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Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
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Prosperity and is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
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Quaking muscles in the act of birth,
Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
And the first murderer lay upon the earth.Imperial Adam (l. 42-44)
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