"Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit." — Dorothea Lange

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• Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work… — Emma Goldman
• The '80s seem a real positive force. The '70s were deadening, in a lot of ways. — Paul Kantner
• The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at… — Thomas A. Edison
• If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out. — Philip Yancey
• The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the… — Jacques Lacan
• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise… — William O. Douglas
• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is… — Graham Collier
• Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham
• It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and… — Jawaharlal Nehru

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