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1436 Available quotes by 1120 unique authors
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Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl…
— Erich Fromm
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool…
— Joan Didion
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One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
— Robert Fitzgerald
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In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income…
— John F. Kennedy
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If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came…
— Clifford D. Simak
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In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many students…
— Garry Kasparov
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James Hardie(R) siding is a sustainable and marvelous substitute for wood. It's available pre-colored and the finish truly looks like high-grade wood siding. I've used…
— Sarah Susanka
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We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we…
— Saul Bellow
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I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have…
— David Horowitz
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The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
— Theodor Adorno
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The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying…
— Clive Barnes
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Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing…
— John W. Gardner
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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the…
— Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
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The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual…
— Gene Youngblood
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When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It…
— Tina Yothers
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Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during…
— Aaron T. Beck
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Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through…
— Abraham Maslow
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Well, he's got a much bigger circus to play with, and he has a lot more financing available, and he has a lot more time…
— Michael Madsen
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