122.Quotes On Ability:Body:Civilization:Evil-Part 2

"Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.." -A. Alvarez-

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"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.".-Andrew Carnegie-

"Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.".-Bhagavad Gita-

"Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.".-Elbert Hubbard

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"We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-

"My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.".-Henry Wheeler Shaw-

"Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.".-Laurence J. Peter-

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.".-Oscar Wilde-

"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.".-Albert Camus-

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"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.".-Andrea Dworkin-

"The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.".-Bhagavad Gita-

"It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.".-David Herbert Lawrence-

"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.".-Fran Lebowitz-

"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.".-Henry Miller-

"There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-

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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the".-Oscar Wilde-

"Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.".-Zoroaster-

"Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.".-Amos Bronson Alcott-

"True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.".-Charles Baudelaire-

"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.".-F. L. Lucan-

"Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.".-Herbert Spencer-

"Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.".-Oscar Wilde-

"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.".-Victor Hugo-

"Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own mast".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;she enjoys all permitted pleasures without losing her head about any of them, and her reason never lets the reins go, though it may often see".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

"The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.".-Alexis de Tocqueville-

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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"The covers of this book are too far apart.".-Ambrose Bierce-

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"Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.".-August Strindberg-

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