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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
— George Bernard Shaw
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And the law of God is written in every heart, and it is there that he manifests himself; And in infinite love,…
— Elias Hicks
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Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.…
— George Steiner
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of…
— Ellen G. White
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pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman,…
— Charles Bukowski
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We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
— William Shakespeare
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their…
— Adam Smith
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Now sit we close about this taper here, And call in question our necessities.
— William Shakespeare
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