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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it.
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this love in…
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be…
— Joseph Epstein
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Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether…
— Hilary Putnam
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The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Californias red-legged frogs are part of our historical, literary and cultural heritage, ... It is critically important that we ensure that there…
— Robert Stack
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Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man…
— Milan Kundera
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We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together…
— Evo Morales
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Funny how we take our historical heritage can be proudof his chest, but these do not like to make the trade name…
— Mak_786
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