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Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 16 -
Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.
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All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.
Interview with The Guardian (February 1970) -
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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And write what you love - don't feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny.
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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
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Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.
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As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.
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At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
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