Quotes 25261 till 25280 of 25371.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.
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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
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Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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Respectability: The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
Source: Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture -
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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