232.Quotes On Reason:Sin:Society:Soul-Part 2
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"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.." -Oscar Wilde-
"What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy;only the precursor of the reason.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents, or my own?".-Alexander Pope-
"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.".-Arianna Stassinopoulos
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"The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.".-Cecil J. Sharpe-
"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.".-Diogenes of Sinope-
"Pearls mean tears.".-Doris Lessing-
"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.".-Doris Lessing-
"Really to sin you have to be serious about it.".-Henrik Ibsen-
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.".-Henry Kissinger-
"Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"The waste basket is a writer's best friend.".-Isaac Bashevis Singer-
"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.".-Norman Cousins-
"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.".-Norman Cousins-
"Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The domain of ideology coincides with the domain of signs. They equate with one another. Wherever a sign is present, ideology is present, too. Everything ideological possesses semiotic value".-V. N. Volosinov-
"As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.".-Albert Camus-
"Existentialism is about being a saint without God;being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.".-Anita Brookner-
"Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?".-Bertrand Russell-
"Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.".-Confucius-
"What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.".-Friedrich Schlegel-
"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.".-Henry van Dyke-
"A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.".-Lewis H. Lapham-
"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect;it bids a man to ponder or create;and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.".-Norman Douglas-
"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.".-Aristotle-
"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.".-C. S. Lewis-
"Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.".-David Pratt-
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