Rare Quotes

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It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation. — Bruce D. Perry
Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of… — Kay Redfield Jamison
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly...spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.-… — Erica Jong
He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President,… — Joshua Chamberlain
Hansenâ€™s diseaseâ€â€”thatâ€™s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosyâ€”â€œHansenâ€™s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were… — Lou Dobbs
It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand… — Arthur Machen
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led… — Mark Steyn
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. — Thomas Harris
Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but… — Peter Elbow
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all… — Martin Parr
Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away. — Ivan Sutherland
Art, and, above all, music, has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of expression.… — Iannis Xenakis
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only… — Peter L. Berger
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for… — Robert Musil
Casual reliance on unnamed sources...corrodes our credibility and, in cases that are rare but not rare enough, may abet journalistic malpractice. — Bill Keller
There are rare Christians whose very presence incites others to be better Christians. I want to be that rare Christian. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
There was no hope for any kind of big opportunity. I'm not saying it was hopeless. The big pay-off was to work as an artist… — Edward Ruscha
And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images. — Maya Deren
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the… — Kevyn Aucoin

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