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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 haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the…
— Josh Billings
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself.…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it…
— Joseph Conrad
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Long live impudence. It was my guardian angel in this world.
— Albert Einstein
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas…
— John Ruskin
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It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does…
— Kenneth Rexroth
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I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and…
— Beryl Markham
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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
— Ben Jonson
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It sometimes strikes me that the whole of science is a piece of impudence; that nature can afford to ignore our impertinent…
— Aleister Crowley
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Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and…
— Ben Shahn
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