Etc Quotes

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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc. — Ambrose Bierce
People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is… — Paul Hawken
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it… — Adolf Hitler
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc — David Brainerd
My wife and I both made a list of 5 people we could sleep with...she read hers out and there were no surprises...1 George Clooney...2… — Michael McIntyre
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the… — Meher Baba
Glorious God stated: "Whosoever shows enmity to someone devoted to Me, I shall be at war with him, etc." — Al-Nawawi
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no… — Ching Hai
With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected to work, market,… — Wendell Berry
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… — Baruch Spinoza
...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs.… — Arthur Rimbaud
Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in… — Newton Arvin
After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to… — Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things.… — Wilhelm Reich
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. — Van Wyck Brooks
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin

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