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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman. — Lisa See
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings.… — William Blake
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts… — Confucius
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great… — Anne Frank
sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice. — Tarun J. Tejpal
It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows… — Suzanne Collins
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle… — George Orwell
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild. — James Allen
Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn… — Andrew Weil
Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate… — Frantz Fanon
For seven days she lay in bed looking sullenly at the ceiling as though resenting the death she had cultivated for so many years. Like… — William S. Burroughs
don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and… — Anne Frank
Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye,… — Bill Bryson
The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head. — Noah Webster
He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this… — Maggie Stiefvater
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and… — Jim Rohn
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. — Baron de Montesquieu
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by… — David Hume
Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated… — Jason Scott Lee
A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian literature are accessible to them. — Katharine Lee Bates
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years -… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road,… — Noam Chomsky

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