Quotes 61 till 80 of 295.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical patriarchy their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
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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.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
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For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
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For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
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For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a "map" for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
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Had my grandparents not emigrated when they did, I might have been born Jewish in Eastern Europe during World War II, or I might not have been born at all. Instead, I was born in 1942 in New York City.
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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Have you ever been to Glens Falls? The city limits signs are on the same post.
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He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
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Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
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Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders.Source: Chicago (1916)
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