Quotes with register

  • A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Lewis Mumford Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Susan Sontag Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Edward Gibbon History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barry Levinson It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Fulton J. Sheen Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • William Shakespeare O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carol Loomis The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose, is to teach college students - and anyone else who cares to register - how to beneficially contribute to charity. That's not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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