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True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a… — Jean Piaget
The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a… — E. M. Forster
Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish… — Robert Burchfield
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds… — Asa Gray
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century,… — Harold Rosenberg
It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and… — Vash Young
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort… — Henry Lawson
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times -… — Billy Collins
If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else. — Alexa Chung
I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because… — Jan Brewer
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. — Ricky Jay
Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus… — Missy Franklin
For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the… — John Clare
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And… — Francis Bacon
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend… — Rene Dubos
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds… — Marilyn Hacker
I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings. — Ann Jillian
My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion… — David Knopfler
Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes. — Robert Jordan
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the… — Abraham Lincoln
The wrong kind of guy to fall in love with is the guy who will let go of the steering wheel as a joke. A… — An Na
When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does… — Ashoka
We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us. — E. W. Howe
Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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