Engendered Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without…
— Ravi Zacharias
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There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.
— Alfred Sturtevant
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I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their…
— Peter Cosgrove
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The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
— William James
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Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because…
— Plato
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It…
— Sigmund Freud
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching…
— Rose Macaulay
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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
— William Irwin Thompson
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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
— William Godwin
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and…
— Denis de Rougemont
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This general tendency to eliminate, by means of unverifiable speculations, the limits of the categories nature presents to us is the inheritance of biology from…
— W. R. Thompson
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I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts…
— Louis MacNeice
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The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having…
— Donald Barthelme
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I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed,…
— Klemens von Metternich
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We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging…
— Victor Papanek
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Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion…
— Adam Savage
Who Wrote These Engendered Quotes
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