"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if……" — Martha Gellhorn
"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."
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Martha Gellhorn
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41 Quotes by Martha Gellhorn
Martha Gellhorn has 41 quotes on this site.
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I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
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If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.
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Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an…
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The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good…
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes…
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I didn't write. I just wandered about.
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I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.
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Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I…
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I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.
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I’m not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any…
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America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are…
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More Atrophy Quotes
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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
— Thomas A. Edison
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God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will…
— John Howe
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,…
— Charles Darwin
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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
— E. Stanley Jones
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far…
— Ezra Pound
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...
— Norman Doidge
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The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as…
— Steve Pavlina
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity…
— Coleman Dowell
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