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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding…
— Margaret Sanger
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We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body…
— Swami Vivekananda
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently,…
— E. M. Forster
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Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.
— John Hay
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The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as…
— James Thurber
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The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She…
— Stephen King
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Anyhow, there'll be plenty of jam in heaven, that's one comfort, he said complacently. Perhaps there will...if we want it, she said,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing…
— Mark Twain
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
— Emily Bronte
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A son could bear complacently the death of his father while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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