Quotes 821 till 840 of 1090.
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The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113 -
The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
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The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made scarce.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
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The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
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The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
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The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
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The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled, usually at the expense of either truth or understanding.
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