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Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds…
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It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public…
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Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting…
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death." "We must be willing to let go of…
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must…
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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a…
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
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Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of…
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting…
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance…
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The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it…
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The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that…
— Pope John Paul II
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Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths…
— Barack Obama
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This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
— Paul Ricoeur
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The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because…
— E. M. Forster
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the…
— Nikki Giovanni
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