Removed Quotes
537 quotes by 484 authors
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on…
— Chinua Achebe
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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
— George Bancroft
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.
— Jo Brand
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As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.
— Sandra Bullock
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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from…
— Julie Burchill
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Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
— C.S. Lewis
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To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is…
— Margaret Mead
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Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This…
— Adi Shankara
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Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the…
— Li-Young Lee
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes…
— Hannah Arendt
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
— C.S. Lewis
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The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly…
— Robert Ballard
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Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the…
— Cory Doctorow
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Many people think sports are totally physical, that you don't have to think, everything is done for you and you're catered to, I found that…
— Julius Erving
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