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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should… — Oscar Wilde
All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with… — George Orwell
At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman. — Euripides
The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired… — Gunter Grass
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other. — Eugene Field
New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each… — Kadmi Cohen
If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day,… — Rachael Taylor
I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside. — Stacy London
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy. — Karl E. Weick
Like Muslims we assume that God will judge us "on balance." If our good deeds outweigh our bad deeds, we will arrive safely in heaven.… — R C Sproul
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the… — Del Howison
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly… — Wyndham Lewis
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and… — William Dean Howells
Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated… — Hans Arp
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring… — William Shakespeare
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,… — Eric Hoffer
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum — Thomas Jefferson
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares,… — Oscar Wilde
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! — John Suckling
It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head. — Elizabeth I
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of those… — H P Lovecraft

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