Utopia Quote by Thomas Moore

““But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.””

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“Think of all the males and females of the animal and plant world, all the opposites in every aspect of life. They all need to be “married” in some fashion to promote life. Your marriage participates in this cosmic pattern and has a wealth of meaning that you will never grasp. When you make a sacrifice, you don’t just give…

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All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

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An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love,…

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“It isn’t comfortable to discover her place and her necessity. And yet what she has to offer is nothing less than the entire deep…

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When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

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“It's my conviction that slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change... deep changes in life follow movements…

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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like…

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A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the…

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“I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garland's dead, And all but he departed!”

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A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

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“Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.”

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“During the dark night there is no choice but to surrender control, give in to unknowing, and stop and listen to whatever signals of wisdom might come along. It’s a time of enforced retreat and perhaps unwilling withdrawal. The dark night is more than a learning experience; it’s a profound initiation into a realm that nothing in the culture, so…

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that…

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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“We have made some collective mistakes as a species, it’s true – invested too much power in things we can’t see, let alone control. But look at the world we have, Chiku. For all its failings, things could be a great deal worse. No one’s died in any wars lately, or been murdered, or left to rot in a prison,…

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest…

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A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

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The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow…

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[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way…

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The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia.

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People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live…

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“If Utopia is not a place, but a people, then we must choose carefully, for the world is about to change, and in our story, Rapture was just the beginning. -Eleanore Lamb”

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