"There is very little moral mixture in the……" — George William Curtis
"There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it."
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George William Curtis
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34 Quotes by George William Curtis
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Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.
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Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.
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While we read history we make history.
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Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.
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The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture,…
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I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long…
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Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it…
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Dreams come true if you survive the hard times!
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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
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Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be.
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Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the…
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Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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