Quotes 25501 till 25520 of 25602.
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Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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Respectability: The offspring of a liaison between a bald head and a bank account.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
Source: Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture -
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Saint: A dead sinner, revised and edited.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.
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Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
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Thank Heaven! the crisis - the danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
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