Retains Quotes
70 Retains quotes by 65 unique authors
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I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal…
— Roger Caillois
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Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for…
— Helena
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I am glad that the country world...retains a power to use our English tongue. It is a part of its sense of reality, of its…
— Henry Beston
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Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when…
— Clifton Fadiman
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...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the same time has…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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The one who fights back retains his dignity and his self-respect.
— Jeff Cooper
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For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
— John Lothrop Motley
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The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Sectarian priests cry out concerning me, and ask, "Why is it this babbler gains so many followers, and retains them?" I answer, It is because…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
— Bette Midler
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The fundamental assumption that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary,…
— Gabriel Kolko
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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel.
— Horace
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But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as…
— John M. McHugh
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The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.
— Walter Savage Landor
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The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he…
— Herb Caen
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Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion…
— Ryan Tedder
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It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
— David Riesman
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If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely…
— Paul Begala
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The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire…
— Ramakrishna
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
— Alexander von Humboldt
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In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the world where the…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual…
— Sigmund Freud
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material…
— Rachel Cusk
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