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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys… — Jean de la Bruyere
The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave… — George Bernard Shaw
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects… — William E. Gladstone
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the… — William Hazlitt
The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety… — Alan Coren
Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most… — William J. Clinton
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the… — Evelyn Waugh
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or… — Michel Foucault
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be… — Barney Frank
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people… — Barney Frank
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human… — Erich Fromm
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite… — Stanislav Grof
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells,… — Stanislav Grof
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with… — Sloane Crosley
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as… — Rachel Cusk
The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats… — Leonardo da Vinci
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently… — Denis Diderot

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