Quotes 6941 till 6960 of 10005.
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The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road.
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