Quotes with narrow-shouldered

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  • Karl Marx In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Andrew Cohen Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Rupert Murdoch Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
    Rupert Murdoch
    Australian-born American media mogul (born 1931) (1931 - )
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  • Bill Parcells My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • James Watson One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
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  • Alexander Pope One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Ben Okri Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Juvenal Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill Kristol The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Florence Nightingale The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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