"Davy was the type of all the jumped-up……" — Carrie P Snow
"Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time."
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28 Quotes by Carrie P Snow
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative,…
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I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map:…
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those…
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Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known…
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.
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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education…
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I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological…
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The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We…
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I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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