Quotes with half-savage

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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William James Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Tennessee Williams Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Adam Savage Failure is always an option.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Brad Holland Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Flip Wilson Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Plautus Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
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  • Walter Savage Landor Great men always pay deference to greater.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • William Shakespeare Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Malthus Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Half a truth is better than no politics.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bob Riley Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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