The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Violence is used to suppress a people in a most blatantly crude way. We can historicize and contextualize it. We can analyze… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude… — Jack Whitehall Copy Share Image
About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be… — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
We should not cling to crude down to the last drop - we should leave oil before it leaves us. — Fatih Birol Copy Share Image
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. — Mario Cantone Copy Share Image
Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking,… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Trial by jury must and shall be preserved! Amidst the throng of crude sacrilegisms ... that assail us nowadays in the legal… — John Henry Wigmore Copy Share Image
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step.… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
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