Sources Quotes

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I know that disavowal is an unusal form of betrayal. From the outside it is impossible to tell if you are disowning someone or simply… — Bernhard Schlink
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty… — Barbara Mertz
For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of… — Richard Ford
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of… — Jean Cocteau
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who… — John Stuart Mill
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote… — William Least Heat-Moon
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength… — William James
This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element… — Patricia C. Wrede
Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32) — Milan Kundera
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own… — Elie Wiesel
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and… — Christopher Hitchens
Originality is the art of concealing your sources. — Benjamin Franklin
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand… — Wendell Berry
We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others… — Ernest Becker
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of… — Jane Austen
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more… — E. O. Wilson
Thatâ€™s nice of you, but itâ€™s not necessary to loan me a car.â€ â€œI loan you cars all the time.â€ â€œAnd I almost always destroy… — Janet Evanovich
All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of… — Lisa See

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