Quotes 3901 till 3920 of 5418.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
Source: Sand and Foam (1926) -
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
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The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928) -
The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
Source: The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187 -
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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