Quotes with sterile

  • Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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  • Maya Angelou A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Oscar Wilde Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aneurin Bevan He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Edward Dahlberg No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Winston Churchill Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Elie Wiesel Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Bjork The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Max Lerner We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Basil of Caesarea A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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