Oscar Wilde Quotes

Civilisation 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

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• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

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• That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

  

  Dan Brown
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• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

  

  Flume
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• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
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• The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• I like to look good on the golf course.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
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• My version of makeup is a really intense skin regimen. I just think it's a healthier way to look at beauty.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
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• There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

  

  P. J. Soles
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• To talk to people, I have to spend energy talking to them. If I expend my energy on talking to people and making friends, it takes away from the energy I could focus on getting ready to pitch.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
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• Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
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• Unity is power; without unity women cannot fight for their rights anywhere.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
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• Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1

  

  Alan Watts
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• If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

  

  Elie Wiesel
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• The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

  

  Idries Shah
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• It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
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• Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
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• If the materialistic west is a civilisation without a heart, as we are accustomed to regard it nowadays, ours, on the other hand is one without a soul.

  

  Xu Zhimo
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• “Once I journeyed far from home To the gate of holy Rome; There the Pope, for my offence, Bade me straight, in penance, thence Wandering onward, to attain The wondrous land that height Cokaigne.”

  

  Wace
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  • Penance

• Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt.

  

  Al-Nawawi
  • Actions
  • Intention
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• We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

  

  Moshe Safdie
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  • Civilisation

• Civilisation 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
  • Corrupt
  • Civilisation
  • Attain