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How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with…
— Robert McAfee Brown
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Where would we in Washington and we in America be without the Center? We would know much less about the workings of our Congress, and…
— Seymour Hersh
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Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are…
— Unknown Author
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving…
— Harold Rosenberg
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Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they seem to insist…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal,…
— Wendell Berry
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.…
— Unknown Author
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The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective…
— Hermann Goring
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Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet…
— Ben Bagdikian
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[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style…
— Susan Sontag
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My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners…
— Joseph Conrad
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Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women - two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians…
— Peter Thiel
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When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.
— Pearl Bailey
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such people the notion…
— Bill Bryson
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Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal.
— Jeffrey Carver
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of…
— John Fowles
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Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
— Tom Peters
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The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a…
— Elliott Erwitt
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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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