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  • It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
  • The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
  • We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
  • Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
  • A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
  • Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
  • Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
  • We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
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  • Jane Austen Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Joseph Addison Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Johnson Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carol Bellamy Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Norman Douglas A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Aaron Sorkin A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William Hazlitt Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
    The Sign of the Four (1890) Ch. 1
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Anna Freud Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Sir Thomas Malory For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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  • Albert Ellis For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Hugh Blair Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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