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A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day;… — Lewis Mumford
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. — Max Planck
Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession. — Jerry Saltz
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we… — Stacy Schiff
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some… — Wallis Simpson
The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan. — Al-Waleed bin Talal
You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and… — Al-Waleed bin Talal
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature,… — Leon Trotsky
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. — Jean Vanier
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. — Claude Vorilhon
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the… — Cecily von Ziegesar
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and self-contempt--but the huge… — Dag Hammarskjold
I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes… — John Irving
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will… — Abigail Adams
One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in… — Sigmund Freud
It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession… — H.G. Wells
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from… — Vladimir Nabokov
And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain… — Douglas Adams
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be… — Mary Balogh
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into… — Anne Carson
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an… — Orhan Pamuk
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire

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