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Quotes 21 till 40 of 2063.

  • Remy de Gourmont The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Mark Twain A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Oscar Wilde A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Camille Paglia A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Alexis Carrel All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Henry Ford An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Albert Einstein And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Are we having a relationship, or just doing research on each other?
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bernie Worrell As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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