233.Quotes On Reason:Sin:Society:Soul-Part 3
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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.." -Oscar Wilde-
"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.".-Alice Walker-
"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.".-Arnold Bennett
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"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!".-Cesare Pavese-
"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.".-Diogenes of Sinope-
"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.".-Doris Lessing-
"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.".-Dorothy L. Sayers-
"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.".-Henry David Thoreau-
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"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.".-Henry Kissinger-
"Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.".-Henry Miller-
"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.".-Isaac Bashevis Singer-
"All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.".-Norman Cousins-
"The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.".-Norman Cousins-
"Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick".-Phyllis Mcginley-
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"Everything ideological possesses meaning: it represents, depicts, or stands for something lying outside itself. In other words, it is a sign. Without signs there is no ideology.".-V. N. Volosinov-
"Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.".-Albert Camus-
"Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.".-Ann Oakley-
"A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.".-Betty Friedan-
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.".-Cyril Parkinson-
"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.".-George Santayana-
"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.".-Lewis H. Lapham-
"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.".-Octavio Paz-
"Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment;it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinner.".-Roland Barthes-
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Memory is the scribe of the soul.".-Aristotle-
"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie.".-Dorothy Parker-
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