Filtered Quotes
49 quotes by 48 authors
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There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the…
— Silvio Berlusconi
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You are playing a character obviously, and everything you are saying is filtered through that person. It is not you that is saying it. It…
— Anna-Louise Plowman
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With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from…
— Harlan Ellison
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Our lives look a lot more interesting when they’re filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly,…
— Jonathan Franzen
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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
— Mark Strand
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To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth…
— Alexander Ostrovsky
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The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward,…
— James Howard Kunstler
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If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must have ‘it’. When it has filtered through your…
— Craig Groeschel
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Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.
— Clay Shirky
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Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
— Poppy Z. Brite
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It is only by loving nature, and going to her for everything, that good work can be done; but then we must look to her…
— Henry Peach Robinson
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices…
— Katherine Boo
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Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,…
— Thomas Merton
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There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines…
— Dweezil Zappa
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I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh…
— Travis Walton
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I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.
— Winston Churchill
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Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
— Wendell Phillips
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