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When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being… — Benjamin Hoff
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken
The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has… — Alexis de Tocqueville
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Custom is almost a second nature. — Plutarch
Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway. — Lord Chesterfield
There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in… — Max Lerner
These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and… — Cesar Chavez
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost… — Baruch Spinoza
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted. — Victor Hugo
Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I… — Aubrey Plaza

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