Levels Quotes
3889 quotes by 2860 authors
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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
— Leo Tolstoy
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Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and…
— Erich Fromm
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When kids look up to great scientists the way they do to great musicians and actors, civilization will jump to the next level
— Brian Greene
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...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little…
— Louis Bromfield
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We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
— D. J. MacHale
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Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
— Kathy Acker
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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought…
— Steven Erikson
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There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people…
— John Scalzi
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An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal…
— Richard Louv
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Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand,…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation…
— C.S. Lewis
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The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front…
— Sarah Palin
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Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a…
— Joan Didion
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Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start…
— Claudia Gray
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You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level…
— Diane Setterfield
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The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence — as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very…
— Roland Barthes
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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder…
— Andrew Sullivan
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I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it…
— Jim Butcher
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