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  • It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
  • What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
  • The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
  • For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
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  • Ben Stein Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
    Darwinism: The Imperialism of Biology?. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Aeschylus A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Nancy Mitford Abroad is utterly bloody and foreigners are fiends.
    The persuit of love (1945)
    Nancy Mitford
    British writer (1904 - 1973)
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  • Al Capp Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Bayard Taylor As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • James Baldwin At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Kate Millet Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Conrad History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Aleister Crowley I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bill Pascrell In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • George Santayana In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Arthur Machen It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Tacitus Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Billy Wilder Marilyn [Monroe] was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
    The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Antonia Fraser My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Jane Welsh Carlyle Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
    Jane Welsh Carlyle
    Scottish writer (1801 - 1866)
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