Traces Quotes
143 quotes by 135 authors
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When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we…
— Albert Einstein
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This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large…
— Werner Sollors
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Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if…
— Peter MacNicol
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As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I…
— Del LaGrace Volcano
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Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know…
— Breyten Breytenbach
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Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the…
— Cato the Elder
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
— Dinaw Mengestu
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In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,…
— Edward Abbey
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The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date,…
— Antonio Gramsci
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We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once…
— Eliza R. Snow
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Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all…
— Plato
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Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as…
— Manohla Dargis
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Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many…
— Joshua Reynolds
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In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the…
— Thomas Sowell
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What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified -…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be…
— Dogen
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The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated…
— William Galston
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The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.
— Francois Delsarte
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To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the…
— Dan Eldon
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On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I,…
— Alan Feduccia
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