John Ruskin Quotes

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

John Ruskin

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• And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I've been a huge fan of Marc Jacobs for many, many years, even going back to when I was wearing men's clothing. He captures a kind of simplicity and a kind of beauty that I like - projecting strength through femininity.

  

  Chelsea Manning
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• By now you've heard the constant right wing attacks on the elite media and the liberal elite, who may or may not be part of Washington elite, a subset of the East Coast elite, which is overtly influenced by the Hollywood elite. So, basically, unless you're a shit-kicker from Kansas, you're with the terrorists.

  

  Bill Maher
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• The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

  

  Idries Shah
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• Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
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• Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Up
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• Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.

  

  Virginia Woolf
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  • Doe
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• God doesn't; shoot crap with the universe.Your innermost thoughts are beliefs that unfold as your universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.

  

  Epictetus
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• Waste is only waste if we waste it.

  

  will.i.am
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• I really believe that women have much easier access to their souls than men do. Because as men we're taught to wear masks, to drown out our emotions in competition and making money. Now women are being forced to do that too. But I admire their capacity to bear their spirituality so much more deeply than men.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
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  • Access

• Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

  

  Solon
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• Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

  

  Walt Whitman
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  • Pride

• Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

  

  Sophocles
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• Poetry’s not made of words.

  

  Ariana Reines
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  • Poetry
  • Made

• It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Souls
  • Whip