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In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate… — Epictetus
The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for… — Dolores LaChapelle
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means… — Angela Carter
Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do… — Harold Brodkey
What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual… — Kenny Smith
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self… — Carl Jung
It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France. — Unknown Author
Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books,… — Vernon Howard
In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing… — Carlos Castaneda
The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management. — Tom Felton
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual… — Albert Schweitzer
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever. — Julia Ward Howe
No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking –… — Elinor Glyn
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum.… — Joseph Sobran
It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of violence against unoffending… — Robert Higgs
Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem,… — Namkhai Norbu
We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics. — David Milne
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out. — David Strathairn
The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of… — Herbert Croly
It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that… — Kelly Osbourne
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe… — Kevin Garnett
There is no more reason for a room on a stage to be a reproduction of an actual room than for an actor who plays… — Robert Edmond Jones
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. — Unknown Author
As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. — Susan Neiman
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation,… — C.S. Lewis

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