"No one has really ever defined what a…" — Joseph Epstein
"No one has really ever defined what a friend is."
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46 Quotes by Joseph Epstein
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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful…
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All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether…
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A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of…
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes…
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What all great teachers appear to have in common is love of their subject, an obvious satisfaction in rousing this…
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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.
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I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.
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In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly…
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Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly.
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High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence…
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I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in…
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how…
— Albert Bandura
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers…
— Dave Barry
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It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
— Dave Barry
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
— Scott Adams
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
— Edward de Bono
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The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims…
— John O. Brennan
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Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.
— David Byrne
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The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
— Italo Calvino
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