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8782 quotes by 4671 authors
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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's…
— William S. Burroughs
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a…
— Tori Amos
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If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless…
— George Santayana
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Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that to discover what…
— George Santayana
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If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't…
— Barack Obama
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging.
— Norman Cousins
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
— William Allen White
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The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything…
— Eckhart Tolle
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher…
— J. William Fulbright
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think that we think. Mind, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction…
— H. L. Mencken
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are…
— Albert Einstein
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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