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You should always say exactly what you think directly to people all the time, — Amy Pascal
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it… — Carol Tavris
Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the… — Marcus Aurelius
[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers,… — Charles Caleb Colton
My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to… — Bill Vaughan
Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension… — Bill Vaughan
The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor… — Karl Marx
What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist.… — Karl Marx
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-believe,… — Paul Auster
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed… — Thomas Frank
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no… — William Gibson
Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you… — Cat Cora
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did. — Macaulay Culkin
So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and… — Richard M Daley
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has… — Guy Debord
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. — Robert Delaunay
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. — Joan Didion
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things… — Robert Duvall
Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even… — Umberto Eco
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer;… — Jonathan Edwards
And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working… — Dave Eggers
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much. — Barbara Ehrenreich

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