235.Quotes On Reason:Sin:Society:Soul-Part 5

"Strength of mind rests in sobriety;for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.." -Pythagoras-

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"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.".-Virginia Woolf-

"Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.".-Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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"It is a sin to be poor.".-Charles Fillmore-

"No man is hurt but by himself".-Diogenes of Sinope-

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.".-Doris Lessing-

"Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.".-Frank Moore Colby-

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.".-Henry Kissinger-

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"Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.".-Henry Kissinger-

"He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.".-Horace-

"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.".-Katherine Anne Porter-

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.".-Norman Cousins-

"We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.".-Norman Cousins-

"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.".-Quentin Crisp-

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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been".-Winston Churchill-

"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.".-Albert Camus-

"With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.".-Antonin Artaud-

"The Diet Mentality has come about because there is agreement in our society that the only way to lose weight is by dieting. But dieting produces absolutely no permanent, positive results. In fact, it makes you feel worse about yourself and probably does more damage than good to your health.".-Bob Schwartz-

"Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.".-David Lehman-

"The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.".-Henrik Ibsen-

"I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.".-Italo Calvino-

"Society is now one polished horde;Formed of two mighty tribes;the Bores and Bored.".-Lord George Byron-

"Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

"Society is a hospital of incurables.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.".-Victor Hugo-

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"Charm strikes the sight, but merit wins the soul.".-Alexander Pope-

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.".-Aristotle-

"And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.".-David Herbert Lawrence-

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"Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.".-Douglas Macarthur-

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