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Sense Quotes by Lionel Trilling
- We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears the legend, "It is later…
- A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That…
- We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
- The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the…
- A primary function of art andthought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him…
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- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
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