"The race of man, while sheep in credulity,……" — Carl Clinton Van Doren
"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."
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12 Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course…
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken…
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without…
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when…
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to…
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest…
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject,…
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports…
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
— Matthew Arnold
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
— Teresa of Avila
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what…
— Michele Bachmann
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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't…
— Erykah Badu
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Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic…
— Ray Bradbury
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
— Jacob Bronowski
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The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
— Rita Mae Brown
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
— Steven Brust
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How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.
— William S. Burroughs
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