Established Quotes
1014 quotes by 810 authors
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The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established…
— Ivan Illich
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There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we…
— Confucius
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Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it…
— Jose Saramago
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At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question…
— Ahdaf Soueif
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But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless…
— Jack Kerouac
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To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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There's a very generous donation in the parish's future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most." Frowning, the man fumbled open his…
— Tessa Dare
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The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
— Herbert Marcuse
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of…
— Aberjhani
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In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence…
— Alejo Carpentier
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I handed my tools. The two of them reached down to help me out of the crater I'd dug. ''Isn't that a little deep?'' Yoda…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms,…
— Winston Churchill
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The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.…
— Howard Zinn
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Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive…
— Howard Zinn
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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all…
— Jules Verne
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This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds,…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the…
— Boris Pasternak
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It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A…
— Christopher Hitchens
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