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Quotes 4221 till 4240 of 10591.

• Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it.

  Thomas Szasz
  American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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• Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.

  Barbara Boxer
  American politician (1940 - )
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• Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

  Alice Hoffman
  American novelist (1952 - )
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• Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

  Alice Hoffman
   
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• Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.

  Ann Coulter
  American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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• Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?

  Plato
  Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  Igor Stravinsky
  Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  A. R. Ammons
  American poet (1926 - 2001)
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• Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

  Vikram Seth
  Indian novelist and poet (1952 - )
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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  English poet (1792 - 1822)
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• Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

  Christopher Marlowe
  British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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• Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

  Thomas Traherne
  British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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• Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?

  Bob Diamond
  Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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• Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the center of man's universe is the earth?

  Stephen Vizinczey
  Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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• Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

  Bruce McCulloch
  Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
  

  Pride & Prejudice Vol 2, ch. 2

  Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• hospitalization
• unfortunately
• plantations
• commitments
• destruction
• penetrating

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