Quotes with shunned

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• For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

  Edward Dahlberg
  American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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• It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the way when they are running away; that they see the light when they feel the heat; that they are chosen when they are shunned.

  Eric Hoffer
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• introduction
• institutions
• newspapers
• themselves
• important
• political

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