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Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the…
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really…
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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his…
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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex;…
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It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be…
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true…
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people…
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Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
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What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute…
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I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
— Brigitte Bardot
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[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall,…
— Jacob Bronowski
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
— Edward Abbey
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Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are…
— Frances Wright
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
— Ben Jonson
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression…
— James Russell Lowell
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'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
— John le Carre
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Impertinent wits are a kind of insect which are in everybody's way and plentiful in all countries.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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