"To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least……" — Irwin Edman
"To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality."
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- If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could… — Kate Beckinsale
- History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer
- The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to… — Napoleon Bonaparte
- As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles… — Jeff Bridges
- For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough. — Steve Carell
- I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I… — Margaret Cho
- It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the… — Phyllis Diller
- In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of… — Albert Einstein
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be… — James Madison
- With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to… — Gordon Moore
- Sergey and I founded Google because we're super optimisitc about the potential for technology to make the world a better… — Larry Page
- In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that… — Francois Fenelon