"When your own life is threatened, your sense……" — Yann Martel

More Blunted Quotes

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• We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful… — C.S. Lewis
• If this is long delayed, weapons are blunted and morale depressed. — Sun Tzu
• Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? — Montgomery Clift
• Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted. — Miguel de Cervantes
• The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a… — Pope Francis
• Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out… — Martin Farquhar Tupper
• More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the… — Steven Erikson
• What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing… — Richard D. Ryder
• Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness… — James Bridie
• I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was… — Conrad Veidt

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