Quotes 241 till 260 of 488.
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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
The Human Stain (2000) -
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
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Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Pensées (1669) -
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
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Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
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Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) -
My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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