Gradations Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest…
— Samuel Johnson
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Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.
— Arthur Koestler
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Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
— Charles Darwin
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It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals…
— Emma Goldman
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Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to…
— Charles Darwin
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There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
— Anabel Jensen
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A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That…
— Lionel Trilling
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There's many kinds of kundalini, just as there's a spectrum of light. Put light through a prism and you get different gradations. So there are…
— Frederick Lenz
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About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine…
— Charles Darwin
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Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the…
— Stan Brakhage
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There are different gradations of personhood in different poems. Some of them seem far away from me and some up close, and the up-close ones…
— Anne Carson
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Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.
— Robert Genn
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The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.
— Frederick Lenz
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having…
— William Hazlitt
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
— Franz Kafka
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My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta. But the…
— Alison Bechdel
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Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?
— Anne Rice
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations,…
— Anais Nin
Who Wrote These Gradations Quotes
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