"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small……" — Edmund Wilson
"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
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Edmund Wilson
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29 Quotes by Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson has 29 quotes on this site.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
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The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all…
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.
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The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand,…
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the…
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If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built…
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It is certainly very hard to write about sex in English without making it unattractive.
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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are…
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More Adequate Quotes
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
— Norman Borlaug
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
— Warren Buffett
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
— Smedley Butler
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children…
— Margaret Chan
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
— Julia Child
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The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate…
— Hillary Clinton
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