Developed Quotes
1291 Developed quotes by 1053 unique authors
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I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is…
— Mark Twain
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The capacity for friendship usually goes with highly developed civilizations. The ability to cultivate people differs by culture and class; but on the whole, educated…
— Margaret Mead
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My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording…
— Juliana Hatfield
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Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge…
— Robert Breault
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I've developed a stiff neck that's about to drive me insane...
— Unknown Author
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
— Aldous Huxley
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I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs,…
— S. J. Perelman
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The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and…
— George Santayana
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The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of…
— George Steiner
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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Nature herself is not always unambiguous. Sometimes a girl child may have so well-developed a clitoris that it is assumed she is a boy. Likewise,…
— Germaine Greer
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The mind that has not been developed or trained is very scattered. That's the normal state of affairs, but it leaves us out of touch…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory tower developed. Now…
— Alberto Manguel
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in…
— Gunter Grass
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I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron,…
— Fred Couples
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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each others…
— Diana Trilling
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
— Umberto Eco
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The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with…
— Igor Stravinsky
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The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about…
— Immanuel Kant
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over…
— Azar Nafisi
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