Quotes with seriousness

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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Horace A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Oscar Wilde Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Ney In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Albert Camus Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Anthea Turner Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Philip Roth Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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