Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1463.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
The Human Stain (2000) -
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
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The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
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The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.
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