Quotes with non-being

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 1961.

  • Walter Lippmann The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joseph Campbell The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Tom Wolfe The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
    Tom Wolfe
    American author and journalist (1930 - 2018)
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  • D.B.C. Pierre The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
    Vernon God Little
    D.B.C. Pierre
    Australian writer (ps. by Peter Warren Finlay) (1961 - )
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  • Bob Greene The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Boris Sidis The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Harold Rosenberg The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Gloria Steinem The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Margaret Drabble The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lin-Chi The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
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  • Candace Bushnell The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Winston Churchill The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bob Schaffer The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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