Quotes 541 till 560 of 2607.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
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Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
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Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
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