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Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…
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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
— Barry Commoner
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
— Polybius
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There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural…
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of…
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The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course,…
— Amitav Ghosh
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Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use…
— Samuel Johnson
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The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on…
— Hans Kmoch
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If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had…
— Sarah Zettel
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The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body…
— Charles Stanley
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How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three…
— Van Day Truex
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