Etc Quotes
701 Etc quotes by 563 unique authors
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Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,…
— Brenda Ueland
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Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt…
— Jen Lancaster
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I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in…
— Mark Steyn
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You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.
— Doris Lessing
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There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only…
— C.S. Lewis
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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
— Michael Pollan
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The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could…
— Tom Robbins
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Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four in the morning, 
— Paul Theroux
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Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
— Milan Kundera
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Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that…
— Robert Bresson
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Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like…
— Henry Rollins
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There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . .…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us…
— Gilles Deleuze
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If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty—by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.—to forms that…
— Werner Heisenberg
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The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and…
— Maureen Johnson
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You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.
— Blaise Pascal
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