Quotes 781 till 800 of 10591.
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
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A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
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A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
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A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.
Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006 -
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
Atonement (2001) -
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Wuthering Heights (1847) -
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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