Quotes with retain

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  • Bruno Dumont To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aaron Copland When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the non-musician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Emile Durkheim While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Francis Bacon Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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