Felix Adler Quotes
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.Felix Adler
Quotes to Explore
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
Barack Obama -
For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
Caitlin Doughty -
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill -
With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E. L. James -
I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
Sammy Sosa
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Wavy Gravy -
Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
Edmund Hillary -
I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
T. C. Boyle -
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky -
By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
Zac Goldsmith -
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
Sam Jaeger -
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
Sam Shepard -
My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
Daniel Bryan -
The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
Brown Campbell -
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India -
'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
John Lasseter
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I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.
Y. C. James Yen -
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Thomas Carlyle -
I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.
Olivia Wilde -
Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.
Laurence Fishburne -
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler