I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and… — Javier Perez de Cuellar Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them… — A. D. Patel Copy Share Image
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles… — Iwan Bloch Copy Share Image
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference. — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races. — Harry J. Anslinger Copy Share Image
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
I deplore the pornography and all of the immoral degenerate things that are happening in the USA. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates. — Fran Kranz Copy Share Image
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In religious matters it is now fashionable to define tolerance as the absence of criticism of any standard religion. All too often,… — Paul Blanshard Copy Share Image
MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
As in our lives so also in our studies, it is most becoming and most wise, so to temper gravity with cheerfulness,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
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