Quotes 521 till 540 of 681.
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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The proposed ban on incitement to religious hatred makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself; and that would be pretty absurd, when you consider that the Bill's intention is to fight Islamophobia.
Source: Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005 -
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
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The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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