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literature privilege reason
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. Carlos Fuentes
literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
accepting avoid cannot dear fact independence pay peace price protector state sufferings war
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours. Theodor Mommsen
accepting addition compete competing faith issues people point wanting
I think one of the big issues with, you know, people who have strong faith in addition to competing is that conflict between accepting things the way they are, and wanting to compete and get better, and at what point are you in the right balance. Tom Lehman
accepting
Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer. Brian Eno
accepting attention automatic aware creating everyday habitual happening helps key mental paying reactions responding space step
The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences. Elizabeth Thornton
accepting age believed continuing mom playing suddenly willing work younger
I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.' Kathy Baker
accepting accident combined destroyed industry met parents work
I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
accepting neat i-can
It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. Janis Ian
accepting social process
In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
accepting agree far next seems
When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous. Gretchen Rubin
solemn
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader. Bill Owens
sole
Things rust, you know, like the heart. My cardiologist said, 'It's a pump; use it - that's the sole advice I've got to give you.' It's the same in playwriting. Don't theorise about it. Do it. Peter Shaffer
solemn cease
Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. Aldous Huxley
sole artifice experiments
Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature. Leonardo da Vinci
sole tyranny paradise-lost-book-1
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. John Milton
sole source experiments
Experiment is the sole source of truth. Henri Poincare
sole dictionary
I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. Zadie Smith