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Such Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are…
- Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
- There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must…
- Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only…
- Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where…
- All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of…
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do…
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- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
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- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough