Quotes 281 till 300 of 402.
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The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.
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The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943) -
The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
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The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Murder on the Orient Express (1934) -
The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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