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Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.
— Aristotle
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You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually…
— Brian Tracy
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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or…
— Bertrand Russell
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
— Michelangelo
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only…
— Michelangelo
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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do…
— Sydney Smith
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The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living…
— Cormac McCarthy
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
— T.H. White
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You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less…
— Bill Bryson
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Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?
— Neil Gaiman
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All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
— Theodore Dalrymple
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