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1595 Finds quotes by 1148 unique authors
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I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms,…
— Thomas Huxley
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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds…
— Roger Bacon
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating…
— Harold Bloom
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I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of…
— Charles M. Schulz
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There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly…
— Hannah Arendt
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful…
— Doris Humphrey
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It…
— Ted Koppel
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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of…
— William Graham Sumner
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There are two ways through life: the way of Nature, and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't…
— Terrence Malick
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When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by…
— Richard Baxter
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The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may love him also for the…
— Richard Sibbes
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Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there…
— E T A Hoffmann
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with…
— Nelson Mandela
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Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the…
— Charles W. Penrose
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Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
— Seneca the Younger
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What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the…
— Paulo Coelho
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The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.
— John Templeton
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As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient…
— Sigmund Freud
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We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
— H. L. Mencken
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Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
— Harold Rosenberg
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