Quotes with thwarted

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• Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

  E. M. Cioran
  French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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• For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

  Cosmos (1980)

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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• Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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• The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

  Charles Horton Cooley
  American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• explanations
• compliance
• trifles
• itself
• easily
• frenzy

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