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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real…
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The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic…
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to…
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Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or…
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated…
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If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it…
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Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near…
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The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person…
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the…
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From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the…
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…
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Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.
— Louis Kronenberger
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
— J. B. Priestley
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The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that…
— Francis Bacon
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I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
— Martin Kippenberger
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The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known…
— Unknown Author
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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I see myself rather like an old discarded dishrag.
— Steven Morrissey
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I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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