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The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought. — Henry Steele Commager
There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story. — Tobias Wolff
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. — Irving Kristol
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English… — Joseph Goebbels
I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing — Eric Cantona
When there’s an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general… — Reed Hastings
In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem… — Tony Abbott
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental.… — Stephen Harper
The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You… — Kofi Annan
I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even if I do that, the satisfaction… — Chantal Kreviazuk
I have people that I'm close to that give me things to read throughout the season, and in particular in the playoffs and the postseason. — Derek Fisher
The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. — Iannis Xenakis
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then… — James Hillman
According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man’s prerogative - and woman’s - to create their own particular and… — Rod Serling
I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through… — Rod Serling
He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to… — Anandamayi Ma
While some people are apprehensive that meditation may conflict with their beliefs, the usual experience is that it leads to a heightened appreciation of their… — Ian Gawler
Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when… — Sogyal Rinpoche
It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted… — Naomi Klein
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not… — Bill Brandt
It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times… — Giambattista Vico
All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself,… — Stefan Zweig
No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he… — Edward Coke

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