Quotes with often-uncontroversial

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  • Bruce Springsteen There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Eliot There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • S. Maxwell Coder There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner.
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Carl Edward Sagan There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.
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  • Carolina Herrera There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Cate Blanchett There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Holden They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Callimachus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
    They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
    I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
    Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
    Epigrams Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Blaise Pascal Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Aaron Klug This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Samuel Johnson Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anais Nin Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Erwin W. Lutzer Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
    Erwin W. Lutzer
    American evangelical Christian pastor
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Gay Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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