"When you think of the long and gloomy……" — Carrie P Snow
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
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28 Quotes by Carrie P Snow
Carrie P Snow has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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More Acceptance Quotes
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one of 2,150 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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