Increased Quotes

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My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. — Gene Wolfe
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not… — Carl von Clausewitz
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. — C.S. Lewis
Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations… — Victor Davis Hanson
[T]he ways in which the information we give off about our selves, in photos and e-mails and MySpace pages and all the rest of it,… — Clay Shirky
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that… — Theodore Roosevelt
The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt… — Aldous Huxley
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern… — Bertrand Russell
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I… — C.S. Lewis
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my… — Edgar Allan Poe
Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical… — Daniel Dennett
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too… — Gaston Bachelard
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased… — Frederick Douglass
happened as I listened: I felt pain. Not in my head, not in my arm, not in my leg; everywhere at once. I told myself… — Jennifer Egan
When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work. — Jennifer Crusie
As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a… — Theophile Gautier

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