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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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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving…
— Chanakya
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Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.
— Mary McCarthy
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The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode…
— Walter Lippmann
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Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and…
— George Eliot
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In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark…
— Barbara G. Walker
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase…
— Albert Einstein
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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.
— John Updike
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The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost…
— Louis Kronenberger
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It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done…
— Eric Maisel
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Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.
— Brian Jacques
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