Purged Quotes
46 quotes by 38 authors
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I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean,…
— Kristin Armstrong
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The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
— Robert Penn Warren
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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
— Euripides
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We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting…
— Marcy Kaptur
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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that…
— H. L. Mencken
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I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think…
— John Brown
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Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace…
— Arthur Machen
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with…
— William Shakespeare
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A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.
— Johan Huizinga
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
— Terry Eagleton
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Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy…
— Tahir Shah
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Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the…
— Kenny Smith
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The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Another day it occurred to me that time as we know it doesn't exist in a lawn, since grass never dies or is allowed to…
— Michael Pollan
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Just as God's love entered the world, thereby submitting to the misunderstanding and ambiguity that characterize everything worldly, so also Christian love does not exist…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even…
— Ernest Becker
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From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she was sad or…
— Robert MacNeil
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Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their…
— Eve Ensler
Who Wrote These Purged Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 46 Purged Quotes, led by these top contributors: