"In all its myriad manifestations, the language of……" — Paul Johnson
"In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency."
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39 Quotes by Paul Johnson
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our…
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
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This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and…
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from…
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I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to.…
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
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When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
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I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and…
— Margaret Atwood
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of…
— Diane Ackerman
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
— Francis Bacon
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself…
— Honore de Balzac
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
— L. Frank Baum
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual,…
— Annie Besant
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
— Aneurin Bevan
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