Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Sydney Smith To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Louise Erdrich To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Traherne To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Baroness Orczy To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Plutarch To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • David Foster Wallace To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
    Source: Consider the Lobster (2005) 157
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Arthur Holly Compton To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.
    Arthur Holly Compton
    American physicist
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  • Cary Fowler To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Muriel Spark To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Walt Whitman To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • William Butler Yeats To me the supreme aim is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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