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
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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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• 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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• Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Feels
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• The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

  

  Rene Descartes
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• Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them--and after reading this book, neither will you.

  

  Brandon Massey
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• 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